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