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:
D# G# D#7M G#2 G7M
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---|
D# (strum for intro)
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VERSE 1
D#
I was raised up believing
G#
I was somehow unique
D#7M
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
G# D#
Unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking
G#
I'd say I'd rather be
D#7M
A functioning cog in some great machinery
G# D#
Serving something beyond me
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CHORUS
D# G#2
But I don't, I don't knowwwwwwwwww what that will be
D# G#2 D# G#2 D#
I'll get back to you someday, sooooooon, you will see
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VERSE 2
D#
What's my name, what's my station
G#
Oh, just tell me what I should do
D#7M
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
G# D#
That would do such injustice to you
Or bow down, and be grateful
G#
And say "Sure, take all that you see"
D7#M
To the men who move only in dimly lit halls
G# D#
That determine my future for me
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CHORUS
D# G#2
But I don't, I don't knowwwwwwwwww who to believe
D# G#2 D# G#2 D#
I'll get back to you someday, sooooooon, you will see
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VERSE 3
D#
If I know only one thing
G#
It's that everything that I see
D#7M
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
G# D#
Often I barely can speak
Yah, I'm tongue tied and dizzy
G#
And I can't keep it to myself
D#7M
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
G# D#7M
Why should I wait for anyone else?
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CHORUS
D# G#2
And I know, I knowwww, youuuuu will keep me on the shelf
D# G#2 D# G#2 G#2
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|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
D# G7M
If I had an orchard
D# G7M
I'd work till I'm raw
D#
If I had an orchard
G7M
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
D# G7M
Go hail in the sunlight
D# G7M
My light in the dawn
D#
If I had an orchard
G7M
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
D# G7M
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
D# G7M
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
D# G7M
Wooooahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
4th 7th 5th 2nd 5th 4th D# G7M
Someday I'll be like the man on the screen
D#
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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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