• Song:

    Ballad Of Big Nothing

  • Artist:

    Elliott Smith

  • Album:

    1999-04-13: Salt Lake C...

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Tabbed by: eric johnson

Tuning: Open C (CGCEGC)

Intro
|---------------------0---------------0------------------------------------|
|---------------------0---------0----0-----------0------------------------|
|-------------------- 3---------3----0-----------3------------------------|
|-------12 (slide) 4-----12/4----4-------12/4------------------------|
|---------------------0---------2----0-----------2-------------------------|
|---------------------0---------------0-------------------------------------|

|----------------0--2--4--5------7----------------------------------------|
|----------------0--0--0--0------0---------------------------------------|
|--4-6-4-6----1--1--3--0------7---------------------------------------|
|--5----5------ 2--2--4--5------5----------------------------------------|
|--5----5-------2--2--4--5------0----------------------------------------|
|--0----0-------0--0--0--0------0----------------------------------------|

Verse

|---7----0-------------------------------------2-----------------------------|
|---0----9*-(add 10 then back to 9)---2-----------------------------|
|---7----8------------------------------------2------------------------------|
|---5----0------------------------------------2------------------------------|
|---0----0------------------------------------2------------------------------|
|---0----0------------------------------------2------------------------------|
  
|--7------0--0--5--------7------0--0--2---0---7-----------------------------------|
|--0--5--0--(b9)-5--------0--5--0--(b9)-2---0---7--(add 8 then--10)-----------|
|--7--5--3--8--5--------7--5--3--8--2---1---7-----------------------------------|
|--5--5--5--0--5--------5--5--5--0--2---2---7-----------------------------------|
|--0----------0--5--------0---------0--2---2---7-----------------------------------|
|--0----------0--5--------0---------0--2---0---7-----------------------------------|


Verse Transition/Chorus

|--0---0---0---0------0----0----0-------------------0---0-------then--------------------|
|--5---4---5---7------(b9)---7----5----4----2-------5---2---------repeat----------|
|--4---3---3---5------8----0----0----3----3-------4---1-----------------------------|
|--5---5---5---7------7----0----0----4----4-------5---2------------------------------|
|--5--------------------(b9)---7----5----2-----2------5---2-------------------------------|
|------------------------0----0----0----------------------------------------------------------|

To go back into the 2nd verse just play the xx5340 shape for a few strums then kick right back in



The 2nd time you do the chorus play it a few times and then go to this for the "though it doesn't mean a thing" part.
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------0---------------------------------------------------|
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------5---------------------------------------------------|
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------4---------------------------------------------------|
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------5---------------------------------------------------|
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------5---------------------------------------------------|
|----7---4---(b9)--2--------0---------------------------------------------------|


Then just repeat the basic intro scheme and end it with an open strum


Enjoy!
eric
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