Leave

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:09:19 -0400

From: Brandon Wolfe <wolfeb@rpi.edu>

Subject: Tab: Leave by The Nixons

Band: The Nixons

Title: Leave

Album: The Nixons

*Tuning: Down 1/2 Step*

Transcribed by Brandon Wolfe

wolfeb@rpi.edu

NOTE: This was written based on acoustic versions of the song

that were performed long before the new album was out.

The tab may vary slightly from the electric version on

the album, but they are very close. Enjoy!

[Note: Please do not modify this tab without consulting the author]

Intro/Verse:

E G A5 Dsus2

E G A5 [Let Ring]

[Note: Only let the last A5 ring in the first Verse of the entire song.

Strum A5 several more times in the later verses. ]

Chorus:

C G A5

C G C G C G

Song Composition:

Intro (x1)

Verse (x3)

I'm a man, I'm a man who believes in

A man who believes in... love

I'm a king, I'm a queen, I'm a force that

The only with our lie

You're the face that I see when I'm far away

You're the place I will return

Chorus (x1)

I won't leave you there

I'll keep you deep inside

I'll keep you in my mind

I won't leave you there

Intro (x1)

Verse (x3)

In the time and the space that's allotted us

I only give you everything

This life, inside, you begin, we begin to see

Chorus (x1)

I won't leave you there

I'll keep you in this song

When everything is gone

I won't leave you

Break: (improvise + mute strings etc.)

Solo (guitar 2) + Verse x3 (guitar 1)

Any ideas on the solo?

Chorus (x1)

I won't leave you there

I'll keep you in this song

When everything's left; everything is gone

I won't leave you

Verse

Vocals only; no instruments

I'm a man, I'm a man who believes in

A man who believes in love

[Instruments in] (play verse progression)

Instruments out

I'm now, I'm then, I'm the future

    E]--------------------|
    B]--------------------|
    G]--------------------|
    D]--x-x---------------|
    A]--x-x---------------|
    E]--x-x---------------|

I'm the shadow... in your sun

Instruments in

Verse (x8)

MAIN VOCALS BACKUP VOCALS

I won't leave you ( I'm a man, I'm a man who

believes in )

I'll never leave ( I'm a man who, I'm a man who

)

I only believe, only believe ( I'm a man, I'm a man who

believes in )

It's hard to believe ( I'm a man who, I'm a man who

)

To believe in anything, everything ( I'm a man, I'm a man who

believes in )

I won't leave you, I won't leave you ( I'm a man who, I'm a man who

)

I'm a king, I'm a queen, I'm only every ( I'm a man, I'm a man who

believes in )

Everything Everything Everything Every

I'm Every (x9), every little thing

Outro: (x1)

C G A5

E]--0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0------0-0-------------------|
B]--1-1-1-1-1-1----3-3-3-3-3-3--0-0-----0--0-------------------|
G]--0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-0-0--2-2----2---1-------------------|
D]--2-2-2-2-2-2----0-0-0-0-0-0--2-2---2----2-------------------|
A]--3-3-3-3-3-3----2-2-2-2-2-2--0-0--0-----2-------------------|
E]--x-x-x-x-x-x----3-3-3-3-3-3--0-0--------0-------------------|
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NOTES:

Well, that's it. It may be different from the album version (once that

is released). Please

send any corrections/additions/solos to me.

If you have ANY other Nixons tab, please email it to me.

wolfeb@rpi.edu

www.rpi.edu/~wolfeb/

[Please do not modify tablature without permission from the author

======================================

Brandon Wolfe

wolfeb@rpi.edu

Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~wolfeb/