TALKINGHEADS
The Big Country
Intro:
Guitar 1
play with a slide and let all the notes ring
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| /7 | 9 9/12 12 12/14 14/19 |
| /7 | 9 9 9/12 12 12/14 14/19 |
| /7 | 9 9/12 12 12/14 14/19 |
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|Guitar 2
| D E G A D
| 2 | 0 3 3 3 3 2 |
| 3 | 0 3 3 3 3 3 |
| 2 | 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 |
| 0 | 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 |
| | 2 2 2 2 2 0 |
| | 0 3 3 3 3 |
Guitar 1 and 2 basically play the same thing throughout the verse...
D E
I see the shapes,
G A
I remember from maps.
D E
I see the shoreline.
G A
I see the whitecaps.
D E G A
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
D E G A
I see the school and the houses where the kids are.
D E G A
Places to park by the fac’tries and buildings.
D E G A
Restaunts and bar for later in the evening.
D E G A
Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
D E G A
And I have learned how these things work together.
D E G A
I see the parkway that passes through them all.
D E G A
And I have learned how to look at these things and I say,
Here's the pattern for the Chorus:
Guitar 1 (slide)
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| 17 17\12 12\10 |
| 17 17\12 12\10 |
| 17 17\12 12\10 |
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|Guitar 2
| C G F
| 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 |
| 1 3 1 1 |
| 0 0 2 |
| 2 0 3 |
| 3 2 3 |
| 3 1 |
C G F
I wouldn’t live there if you paid me.
C G F
I couldn’t live like that, no siree!
C G F
I couldn’t do the things the way those people do.
C G F
I couldn’t live there if you paid me to.
Outro: (While he goes Goo goo ga ga ga)
C G F
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| 17 17 17 17 17 12 12 12 12 12 10 10 10 10 10 |
| 17 17 17 17 17 12 12 12 12 12 10 10 10 10 10 |
| 17 17 17 17 17 12 12 12 12 12 10 10 10 10 10 |
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I tabbed this listening to the live version off of The Name of This Band is Talking
so it might be a little bit different in some parts from the album version