"CHILD STAR" by THE UNICORNS
(tab by andrew saturn / saturn at gmail dot com)

;=====Disclaimer===========================================================
; I figured this out really fast because I wanted to play this AWESOME song
; There may be mistakes. I've never seen The Unicorns live, nor have I ever
; seen any "official tabs", nor have I studied their playing style. This is
; all done by ear and sounds good to me... but I'm no expert. The bass part
; and the shakers are fairly "duh" so I won't do those.


[intro bass riff, fret string noise using a Dm chord]

[Guitar intro and main part]
-- listen to the song to hear how the 4th section of this part is played.
-- variations on Dm and such.... repeat 4 times in the beginning.

E  :1---1---1---1---|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|
B  :3---3---3---3---|3---3---3---3---|1---1---1---1---|2---2---2---2---|
G  :2-2---2---2---2-|--2---2---2---2-|--0---0---0---0-|--2---2-3&3---0-|
D  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

"Is there a photo of me..." [bass only]
"Do you look up at night..." [bass + drums only]

[Guitar part + organ + singing.]
-- repeat the "intro" part above
-- ring out a Dm chord to enter into the next part...

[Organ + drum solo.]
-- guitar begins to play an Am/A chord, progressively gets louder (Crescendo) --

[Mini Guitar solo]
-- seems to be played sliding around on the D and G strings:

E  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G  :--3--33---------|--7--77-9s-2----|--3--33---------|----------------|
D  :--------3-3s7---|----------------|--------3-3s7---|----------------|
A  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|



[Pre-happy part]
-- use neck pickup or low-treble

I wrote you a letter...                To become a mee-ee-eeem-ber...
E  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B  :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G  :0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D  :2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0h2-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
A  :----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
E  :----------------|----------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

[Happy part]
D        G
Of your  Fan club

G/Em  Em                   A
..... But all I got in the mail was...


D           G
re-ee       turn-to

G/Em  Em   A
..... Sen  Derrrr


       ["Gm" = 310033]
Dm       Gm
Ahh-ahhh Ahhhhhh

D        A
Ahh-ahhh Ahhhhhh


[... "not a fan of yours anymore" D to A "argument part" with organ + random guitar]

[fade out to end]