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Cold Turkey

Plastic Ono Band
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This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

John Lennon - Cold Turkey

Words/Music by John Lennon

Tabbed by Dionysus

Any comments, corrections, abuse

dionysus1985@hotmail.com

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I'm 100% certain on the intro, verse and

the solo however the chorus and after

chorus bit i'm only about 50% sure on

... Sorry, :oP

I went looking for this tab and i couldn't

find it anywhere so i figured i'd better

do it myself.

Standard Tuning:

Intro:

e|-------5-----------------------------------------------|
B|--7b8--5--7b8b7---5-----5----8\0---7\0---5\0---3\0-----|
G|--7b8-----7b8b7---5--7--5----9\0---7\0---5\0---4\0-----|
D|---------------------7---------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------|

Verse:

e|-----------------------------------| Difficult to tab accurately.
B|---7b8-7b8-7b8-7----5-----5--------| The 7b8 is more a 1/4 tone bend (7b7.5?)
G|---7b8-7b8-7b8-7----5--7--5--------| This is held until the 7th. diad.
D|-----------------------7-----------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

Chorus:

P.M.................................

e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|  Basically C & D power chords
G|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-----|  in some live versions.
D|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-----|  No guitar, just bass & drums
A|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----|  in studio version.
E|------------------------------------|

After Chorus:

e|--------------------------|
B|---8\0---7\0---5\0---3\0--|
G|---9\0---7\0---5\0---4\0--|
D|--------------------------|
A|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|

Solo

e|------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------|
D|--5b7-5b7---5b7-5b7---7b9-7b9---5b7-5b7---|
A|------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|

Outro:

Just do a few bends around the 5th & 7th Fret

areas on G & B Strings and so on and so forth

(At the very very end there it almost sounds

like a violin bow scraped across the strings)

Comments

Spotted a wrong chord, or know a capo position that sounds closer to the record?

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