Tabbed by: Brian Kircher
Tuning: Standard
This is 100% correct as far as the key and root notes. However, as a bass player you can
obviously embellish and add your own style.
You?re playing the root notes throughout entire song. Here?s a tabbed view.
G | --------------------------- |
D | --------------------------- |
A | --3--------6-----3--------- |
E | -----4--6-----1-----1--3--- |
I like to include the minor 7th at the beginning of the measure. I also double up on
some notes, but the point is that as long as you?re hitting the root notes ? you can make
this song your own.
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
The young man stands on the edge of his porch
F5 C5 F5 G5
The days were short and the father was gone
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
There was no one in the town and no one in the field
F5 C5 F5 G5
This dusty barren land had given all it could yield
Bass comes in at the end of Vs 1 (0:33)
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
I've been kicked off my land at the age of sixteen
F5 C5 F5 G5
And I have no idea where else my heart could have been
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
F5 C5 F5 G5
And now I am sure my heart can never be still
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
So collect your courage and collect your horse
F5 C5 F5 G5
And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse
(Bass is quiet during the first chorus)
Chorus 1
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Seal my heart and brake my pride
F5 C5 F5 G5
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Align my heart, my body, my mind
F5 C5 F5 G5
To face what I've done and do my time
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
F5 C5 F5 G5
Your opression reeks of your greed and disgrace
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
So one man has and another has not
F5 C5 F5 G5
How can you love what it is you have got
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
F5 C5 F5 G5
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
There will come a time I will look in your eye
F5 C5 F5 G5
You will pray to the God that you always denied
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
The I'll go out back and I'll get my gun
F5 C5 F5 G5
I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Seal my heart and brake my pride
F5 C5 F5 G5
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Align my heart, my body, my mind
F5 C5 F5 G5
To face what I've done and do my time
(Instrumental Bridge)
It is simply double time what you have been playing.
(8th notes? ? I am just beginning Music Theory)
G | --------------------------- |
D | --------------------------- |
A | --3--------6-----3--------- |
E | -----4--6-----1-----1--3--- |
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Seal my heart and brake my pride
F5 C5 F5 G5
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Align my heart, my body, my mind
F5 C5 F5 G5
To face what I've done and do my time
Instrumental Bridge Again - Give it a good thump!
It is simply double time what you have been playing.
(8th notes? ? I am just beginning Music Theory)
G | --------------------------- | x8
D | --------------------------- |
A | --3--------6-----3--------- |
E | -----4--6-----1-----1--3--- |
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
Well yes sir, yes sir, yes it was me
F5 C5 F5 G5
I know what I've done, cause I know what I've seen
C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
I went out back and I got my gun
F5 C5 F5 G5
I said, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"
| / slide up
| \ slide down
B5 hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
