• Song:

    Pretty Girls Make Graves

  • Artist:

    The Smiths

  • Album:

    May We Have a Record Co...

Tabbed by: Trifonas


Tuning:EADGBe (Standard - Low to high)
Capo 2nd Fret (all chords relative to capo, for example Bm becomes Am)

Intro/Verses:
   Am   Em   C   G
e|------------------------|
B|----1---0----1---0------|
G|----2---0----0---0------|
D|----2---2----2---0------|
A|--0--------3---2--------|
E|------0-----------------|

Link:
Bm A G
e|--------0----------0---------0---3---------|
B|----------0----------0---------0---3p0-----|
G|-------------------------------------------|  
D|-----4----------2--------------------------|
A|--2---------0-------------2----------------|
E|------------------------3------------------|

Em
e|-------------------0------|
B|--------------------0-----|
G|--------------------------|
D|----2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------|
A|----2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------|
E|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------|

Riff in Verses 2,3:
e|-------------------------------------3----------------------|
B|--------------5------------------------------------------5--|
G|--2----5--4h5-5-4h5----5--4h5--5--4h5---5--4h5--5--4h5------|    
D|------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|

Ending Riff:
E
e|---------0----------2p0----2p0------0----------2-2p0------|
B|---0h3---3------3-3p0----3p0----3--0h3--3--3-3p0----------|
G|--1----1----1--1~-----------------1---------1--1----------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|

Em C
e|---------------------------0---------------------------0--|
B|------------------------3----0---------------------3----0-|
G|-----------0----------0-0-0---------------------0-0-0-----|
D|-------2----2--2---2-------------4--5-4--4--2-------------|
A|-----2--2----2---3-------------2--2-----2--3--------------|
E|---0---------------------------0--------------------------|

Sequence:
Intro 
Verse
Link
Verse
Link
Verse 
Link
Ending Riff
 
Lyrics
Am Em C G
Upon the sand, upon the bay 
Am Em C G
"There is a quick and easy way" you say 
Am Em C G
Before you illustrate 
Am Em C G
I'd rather state : 
Am Em C G
"I'm not the man you think I am 
Am Em C G
I'm not the man you think I am" 
Am Em C G
And Sorrow's native son 
Am Em C G
He will not smile for anyone 
Am Em C G
And Pretty Girls Make Graves 
Bm A G Bm A G Em
Oh ... 

Am Em C G
End of the pier, end of the bay 
Am Em C G
You tug my arm, and say : "Give in to lust, 
Am Em C G
Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll 
Am Em C G
Soon be dust ... "
Am Em C G
Oh, I'm not the man you think I am 
Am Em C G
I'm not the man you think I am 
Am Em C G
And Sorrow's native son 
Am Em C G
He will not rise for anyone 
Am Em C G
And Pretty Girls Make Graves 
Am Em C G
Oh really ?
Bm A G Bm A G Em
Oh ... 

Am Em C G
I could have been wild and I could have 
Am Em C G
Been free 
Am Em C G
But Nature played this trick on me 
Am Em C G
She wants it Now 
Am Em C G
And she will not wait 
Am Em C G
But she's too rough 
Am Em C G
And I'm too delicate 
Am Em C G
Then, on the sand 
Am Em C G
Another man, he takes her hand 
Am Em C G
A smile lights up her stupid face 
Am Em C G
(and well, it would) 
Am Em C G
I lost my faith in Womanhood 
Am Em C G
I lost my faith in Womanhood 
Am Em C G
I lost my faith ... 
Bm A G Bm A G Em
Oh ... 
E       Em C Em C Em C (until the end)
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