• Song:

    Wessex Boy

  • Artist:

    Frank Turner

WESSEX BOY- FRANK TURNER- ENGLAND KEEP MY BONES

This song probably won't be so popular amongst people who aren't actually from Wessex 
and don't know what the buttercross is, but I am, so I think the song's awesome and 
deserves tabbing. There are probably plenty of errors, my ear isnt amazing.

Listen to the song to get the strumming, there are also plenty of hammers and pull-offs 
in there to make it sound interesting, but these are the chords.

Standard Tuning

RIFF:
     G (320003@1)                Ce|---3--3--3--3--3------x--x--x--x--x------| (x32010@1)B|---3--0--3--3--3------3--3--3--3--3------|
G|---0--0--0--0--0------0--0--0--0--0------|
D|---0--0--0--0--0------4--2--0--0--0------|
A|---2--2--0--0--0------3--3--3--3--3------|
E|---3--3--3--3--3------x--x--x--x--x------|

(Last 2 strums of each chord are lighter)

INTRO: RIFF x4

VERSE:

G (320003@1)                                                   CLet (x32010@1)me tell you all a little story of the things I've found,
G (320003@1)                                                       CHanging (x32010@1)out and drinking with my friends in the cathedral grounds,
    G (320003@1)                                         CAnd (x32010@1)later dodging drunks as we dance along Jury Street,
      G (320003@1)                                          CAs (x32010@1)we wander up town to the railway our friends to meet,

CHORUS:

DThere's (xx0232@1)something about coming back to your hometown again,
    GThe (320003@1)place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,
           DAnd (xx0232@1)though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,
      CI'm (x32010@1)a Wessex Boy and when I'm here I'm home

RIFF x4

Verse:

G (320003@1)                                                   CLet (x32010@1)me tell you all a little story of the things I've lost,
G (320003@1)                                              CHuddling (x32010@1)for warmth on the top step of the Buttercross,
G (320003@1)                                               CSitting (x32010@1)on the benches by the bridges at the riverside,
G (320003@1)                                                     CCounting (x32010@1)down the hours for the buses cause I missed my ride

CHORUS:

DThere's (xx0232@1)something about coming back to your hometown again,
    GThe (320003@1)place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,
           DAnd (xx0232@1)though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,
      CI'm (x32010@1)a Wessex Boy, a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

BRIDGE:

B (x2444x@1)                C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)          DAnd (xx0232@1)one day I will hear this song anonymous and sweet,
B (x2444x@1)                C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)          DRinging (xx0232@1)out from a buskers guitar on the ancient city streets,
B (x2444x@1)                    C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)       DI'll (xx0232@1)pause a while and smile before I continue on alone,
E (022100@1)                                       CAnd (x32010@1)somebody else will sing the words and I'll feel like I'm home

RIFF x8 (with 'Ba Ba Ba's, increasing in volume)

CHORUS

DThere's (xx0232@1)something about hometowns you never can escape
    GThe (320003@1)triumphs and the tragedies, the tawdry little fates,
    DThe (xx0232@1)welling of nostalgia and feeling kind of strange,
         CCause (x32010@1)despite the little changes yeah this place still feels the same

DThere's (xx0232@1)something about coming back to your hometown again,
    GThe (320003@1)place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,
    DAnd (xx0232@1)though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,
      CI'm (x32010@1)a Wessex Boy,
      CI'm (x32010@1)a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

RIFF x4 (With 'Ba Ba Ba's)

D (4 bars, finishing with 7th fret harmonic)
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