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City Hall

Tenacious D
Tab
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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

Artist: Tenacious D

Album: Tenacious D

Title: City Hall

Tuning: Standard

Tabbed By: Nash Brown

I believe this is played with two guitars... but I think they usually play the same thing.

This is no way complete, but I noticed no one had tried to tab it yet, so maybe someone

can use this as a starting place.

Intro

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---5---------5---------5---------------------------------------------------|
G|---4----4----4----4----4----4----------------------------------------------|
D|---2----4----2----4----2----4----------------------------------------------|
A|--------2---------2---------2----------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Pre-Verse

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6------------------------------|
A|---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6------------------------------|
E|---5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-5-4-5-4-5-4-5-4-5-4-5-4------------------------------|

Verse (fast)

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---5-5-X-X-X-X-5-5---1-1-X-X-X-X-3-3---------------------------------------|
G|---6-6-X-X-X-X-6-6---2-2-X-X-X-X-4-4---------------------------------------|
D|---7-7-X-X-X-X-7-7---3-3-X-X-X-X-5-5---------------------------------------|
A|---7-7-X-X-X-X-7-7---3-3-X-X-X-X-5-5---------------------------------------|
E|---5-5-X-X-X-X-5-5---1-1-X-X-X-X-3-3---------------------------------------|

Part AFTER "and set fucking fires..." when they are not singing.

()=muted

e|---------------------1-(1)-------------------------------------------------|
B|---5-5-X-X-X-X-5-5---1-(1)-X-X-X-X-3-3-------------------------------------|
G|---6-6-X-X-X-X-6-6---2-(2)-X-X-X-X-4-4-------------------------------------|
D|---7-7-X-X-X-X-7-7---3-(3)-X-X-X-X-5-5-------------------------------------|
A|---7-7-X-X-X-X-7-7---------X-X-X-X-5-5-------------------------------------|
E|---5-5-X-X-X-X-5-5---------X-X-X-X-3-3-------------------------------------|

guitar part (where they are talking "lead us to kings")

"this is optimized for the acoustic guitar"

GUITAR 1 GUITAR 2 comes in at end of riff

variations of this with listen to the song

plucking and strumming to find out exactly when it comes in

e--9---9-7---7-9---                  e------------------------------
B--9---9-7---7-9---                  B------------------------------
G--9---9-7---7-9---                  G------------------------------

D--9---9-7---7-9--- D--66666666-77777777-999999999-

A--0---0-0---0-0--- A--66666666-77777777-999999999-

E------------------                  E--44444444-55555555-777777777-

people inside me are telling me to.....

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------5-6-5---------------|
G|---------6/7\6---------------------------------6/7\6-----------7-5b--------|
D|-------7---------7-8-7-8-8/10\8--------------7---------------7-------------|
A|-----7--------------------------8----------7-------------------------------|
E|---5------------------------------8------5---------------------------------|

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