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Cattle and Cane

The Go-betweens
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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

CATTLE AND CANE - The Go-Betweens

Transcribed by Dan Schaumann

INTRO:

E|--0------------|----0----------|
B|---------------|---------------|
G|---------------|---------------|
D|------2---4----|--------2---4--|
A|--2---0---2----|----2---0------|
E|---------------|------------3--|  x2

MAIN RIFF: (Note changes in timing)

( 4/4, 2/4, then 5/4 )

D Bm A G

1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 5

E|-----|--------------2---------------3----------------|
B|-----|*-------------3---------------3---------------*|
G|-----|--------------2---------------0----------------|
D|-4---|--0-----0-----------------0---------------4----|
A|---0-|*-----------------2---4---------2-----------0-*|
E|-----|-----------------------------------------------|  x4

D

I recall

Bm A G

A schoolboy coming home

D

Through fields of cane

Bm A G

To a house of tin and timber

D

And in the sky

Bm A G

A rain of falling cinders

G A

From time to time

G

The waste, memory wastes

REPEAT MAIN RIFF x2

D

I recall

Bm A G

A boy in bigger pants

D

Like everyone

Bm A G

Just waiting for a chance

D

His father's watch

Bm A G

He left it in the showers

G A

From time to time

G

The waste, memory wastes

G

And the waste, memory wastes

REPEAT MAIN RIFF x4

D

I recall

Bm A G

A bigger brighter world

D

A world of books

Bm A G

And silent times in thought

D

And then the railroad

Bm A G

The railroad takes him home

D

Through fields of cattle

Bm A G

Through fields of cane

G A

From time to time

G

The waste, memory wastes

G

And the waste, memory wastes

SOLO:

D Bm A G

1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 5

E|-----|------------------------------3----------------|
B|-----|*-----------------------------3---------------*|
G|-----|------------------------------0----------------|
D|-4---|--2---4-------------------0---------------4----|
A|---0-|*-----------------2---4---------2-----------0-*|
E|-----|-----------------------------------------------|  x6

D G

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4

E|-----------------------------------------------|
B|*---------------------------------------------*|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|--5-4---2---5---4---2---5---4-------0----------|
A|*---------------------------------------------*|
E|-----------------------------------------------|  x4

D G

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4

E|-----------------------------------------------|
B|*---------------------------------------------*|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|--9-9-9-7---------7----------------------------|
A|*-----------------------10----9-----5---------*|
E|-----------------------------------------------|  x2

D G

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4

E|-----------------------------------------------|
B|*---------------------------------------------*|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|--4-5---7-------7-7---5---4--------------------|
A|*-----------------------------5---------------*|
E|----------------------------------7------------|  x6

REPEAT TO FADE:

Dmaj7

Do, do, do, etc.

Further, longer, higher, etc.

31/03/2001

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