Song: Helplessness Blues
Artist: FLEET FOXES
Album: "Helplessness Blues" [2011]
Tabbed by: Devin Miller
Tuning: Open D (DADF#Ad)
*CAPO 1st FRET*
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CHORD REFERENCE CHART:
Eb Ab D#7M Ab2 Gm7
e|--0----0----0----0----0---|
B|--0----2----4----5----5---|
G|--0----1----3----5----5---|
D|--0----0----0----0----4---|
A|--0----2----4----x----x---|
E|--0----0----0----5----5---|
Eb (strum for intro)
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VERSE 1
Eb
I was raised up believing
Ab
I was somehow unique
D#7M
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Ab Eb
Unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking
Ab
I'd say I'd rather be
D#7M
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Ab Eb
Serving something beyond me
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CHORUS
Eb Ab2
But I don't, I don't knowwwwwwwwww what that will be
Eb Ab2 Eb Ab2 Eb
I'll get back to you someday, sooooooon, you will see
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VERSE 2
Eb
What's my name, what's my station
Ab
Oh, just tell me what I should do
D#7M
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
Ab Eb
That would do such injustice to you
Or bow down, and be grateful
Ab
And say "Sure, take all that you see"
D7#M
To the men who move only in dimly lit halls
Ab Eb
That determine my future for me
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CHORUS
Eb Ab2
But I don't, I don't knowwwwwwwwww who to believe
Eb Ab2 Eb Ab2 Eb
I'll get back to you someday, sooooooon, you will see
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VERSE 3
Eb
If I know only one thing
Ab
It's that everything that I see
D#7M
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Ab Eb
Often I barely can speak
Yah, I'm tongue tied and dizzy
Ab
And I can't keep it to myself
D#7M
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Ab D#7M
Why should I wait for anyone else?
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CHORUS
Eb Ab2
And I know, I knowwww, youuuuu will keep me on the shelf
Eb Ab2 Eb Ab2 Ab2
I'll come back to you someday, soooooooon, my saint
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TIME SIGNATURE CHANGE (3/4)
Electric guitar, standard tuning, tremolo picking:
e|----------11-------|----------14-10----|
B|-------11----11----|-------11-------11-|
G|----12----------12-|----12-------------|
D|-13----------------|-13----------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------| x 2
"If I had an orchard......."
e|----------11-------|----------13-------|----------13-------|
B|-------11----11----|-------13----13----|-------13----13----|
G|----12----------12-|----13----------13-|----13----------13-|
D|-13----------------|-15----------------|-15----------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
Eb Gm7
If I had an orchard
Eb Gm7
I'd work till I'm raw
Eb
If I had an orchard
Gm7
I'd work till I'm sore
*(These next notes on the low E string):
4th 7th 5th 2nd 5th 4th D# G7M
And you would wait taaaables, and soon run the store
Eb Gm7
Go hail in the sunlight
Eb Gm7
My light in the dawn
Eb
If I had an orchard
Gm7
I'd work till I'm sore
4th 7th 5th 2nd 5th 4th D# G7M
If I had an or chard I'd work till I'm sore
Eb Gm7
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Eb Gm7
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Eb Gm7
Wooooahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
4th 7th 5th 2nd 5th 4th D# G7M
Someday I'll be like the man on the screen
Eb
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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