• Song:

    The Three Of Us

  • Artist:

    Ben Harper

  • Album:

    Church House Blues (dis...

The three of us
Ben Harper
From ? Welcome to the cruel world ? 1st track
Tabbed by lafokalawe (valentein@caramail.com)
Istrumentals 2 parts :
1-acoustic guitar tuned in DGCFAD 1 step down
2-Weissenborn tuned in F open CFCFCF 

First sorry for my bad english

Part one 6x
Tempo free Play along the song to catch it
  G             C        G            G                C            G
|---------3--2------0---------------|---------3---2----0---------------|
|------------------1------------3---|-------0----------1---3--0--1--3--|
|-----0-----------0----------0------|-----0------------0------------0--|
|-----------------------------------|------------------2---------------|
|----------------3------------------|------------------3---------------|
|--3----------------------3---------|--3----------------------------3--|

  G               C        G          G            C               G
|---------3--2----0-----------------|------3--2----0-------------------|
|-----------------1--------3--------|--------------1---3--0--1-----3---|
|-----0-----------0--------0--------|----0---------0---------------0---|
|-----------------2-----------------|--------------2-------------------|
|-----------------3-----------------|--------------3-------------------|
|--3-----------------------3--------|--3---------------------------3---|

		  Slower
                 G     D/F#     Em    D/F#      G    D/F#      G
|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------------------|
|--1-0h1p0-----|-----0--------|-----0--------|-----0--3----------------|
|-----------0--|--0-----2-----|--0-----2-----|--0-----2---------0------|
|--------------|-----------0--|-----------0--|-------------0-----------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------------------|
|--------------|--3-----2-----|--0-----2-----|--0-----2---------3------|

Play this part 6 times with little variations

2nd part lap steel style
I play on a acoustic guitar and it sounds quite good.
I use a iron lighter as bottleneck but in glass it sounds good too
Tuning C F C F C F
/ means slide up and  means slide down
(4/2) means the notes are linked

2nd Verse
|--0h2--/-4---------|--0--2--/4---(42)--0-----|--0—2p0--2-p-0--/4~~--|
|----------------5~~-|----------------------5~~-|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|

|--4-/(5--4)-0-------------|-/(42)-2p0--2p0-------/(42)-/4--0------|
|---------------0--2-/-5----|-------------------2p0----------------5~~-|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|

3rd verse
|--/4~~------/(7--5)--/4-------------|-------0h2-------2-p-0--/4------|
|------------------------------5~~----|------0--------0----------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--/(42)-2p0--2-2------/4-0----------------|
|--------------------2p0--------0-0-----------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------0-------|
|-----------------------------------------0---|
|---------------------------------------------|

4th verse
|---2--------2~~-------|--0h2---2------2~~------|--0h2----2p0-/4-------|
|-0--------0-----------|-0-----------0----------|-0--------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|

|-/(42)-2p0--/7--(42)-/(42)p0-2--0------|
|-------------------------------------5~~--|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|

Last verse
|--0h2-/4---(54)--|----/(5--4)---2--2------0------|
|------------------|-----------------------------5~~--|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|

|---0h2-----2-----(2-/-4~)—42--2--/4-(42)--0--/4--0-------------------|
|--0------0-----0---------------------------------------0---------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------5--4---0---0-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------4---|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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