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Mary | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend, 1971
>From Scoop, 1983, and The Lifehouse Chronicles, 2000
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1983 Towser Tunes Inc./Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
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Previously transcribed by Harlan L Thompson
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transcribed by Whotabs
litgo@aol.com 2001-12-25 www.thewho.net/whotabs
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Note: Lifehouse Chronicles version is slightly sped up; Scoop version is standard speed.
Acoustic: Tune down two whole steps (C F Bb Eb G C)
Electric: Standard tuning, capo on 1
(shape for
acoustic) Acoustic Electric
F (133211@1) (A) x02220 133211
Fsus2 (xx1341@3) (Asus2) x02200 x33213 (Fadd9)
Fsus4 (113311@1) (Asus4) x02230 x33215 (Fadd11)
Bb (x1333x@1) (D) xx0232 x13331
B7sus2 (D7sus2) xx0210 x13111
F6sus2 (A6sus2) x02202
F7sus2 (A7sus2) x02203
Fadd5 (Aadd5) x02225
C6 (03221x@1) (E) xx242(0)
C6add9 (E6add9) xx2422
Gm (355333@1) (Bm) x24432 355333
Gmsus2 (Bmsus2) x24422
C5 (x355xx@1) (E5) 0224xx x355xx
[intro pattern; acoustic only]
|F Fsus4 (113311@1) |F6sus2 F7sus2 |
|-------------5----|--------------------------|
|---5-5----5-5--5--|----0----0------0-----0---|
|--6---6-----7-7-7-|--11---11---------|
|-7--7----7-7------|-7----7-----9-----9-------|
|0-------0---------|0----0-----0-----0--------|
|------------------|--------------------------|
[verse; acoustic only]
|Fsus2 |F Fsus4 (113311@1) |Bb Bb7sus2 |
Mary, you are everything a man could want
|Bb Bb7sus2 |F Fsus2 |Fsus4 Fsus2 |
and I want you Mary
[electric ptrn ][electric out]
|F Fadd9 (135211@1)|Fadd11 F (133211@1) |
|---1-----3--|---5-----1--|--|
|--1-----1---|--1-----1---|--|
|-2-----2----|-2-----2----|2-|
|3-----3-----|3-----3-----|3-|
|-----3-----3|-----3------|--|
|------------|------------|--|
|F Gm (355333@1)|F Fsus4 (113311@1) |Bb Bb7sus2
Did you know, when you pushed me once away from you
|Bb Bb7sus2 |F Fsus2|F7sus2 (xx1341@3)F6sus2
The pain I knew grew inside me
[repeat electric pattern]
|Gm Gmsus2 Gm (355333@1) Gmsus2 |F Fsus2 (xx1341@3)Fsus4Fsus2| (113311@1) People are dancing for you now, but I can't see why
[electric]
|Gm |F F5 (133xxx@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)|
|1------------1----------|
|1-------------1--5------|
|2--------------5--5-----|
|3-----------3------3----|
|3-----------------------|
|1-----------------------|
|Gm Gmsus2 Gm (355333@1) Gmsus2 |C6 C6add9
Can't they see that they can't beat the love that I have for you
[electric]
|Gm |C5
|Fsus2 F6sus2 F7sus2|F Fsus4 (113311@1) |Bb Bb7sus2 |
Mary, you are everything aman (x02210@1)could need
[electric]
|F Fadd9 (135211@1) |Fadd11 F (133211@1) |Bb Bb7sus2 |
|---1------3--------|---5--------1----------|---1--------1-----|
|--1------1---------|--1--------1-----------|-------------1----|
|-2------2----------|-2--------2------------|--3--------1------|
|3------3-----------|3--------3-------------|-3--------3-------|
|------3-----------3|--------3--------------|1----------------1|
|-------------------|-----------------------|------------------|
|Bb Bb7sus2 |F Fsus4|F (113311@1) Fsus4 (113311@1) How I need you Mary, yeah, how I need you
[electric]
|Bb Bb7sus2 |F Fadd9 (135211@1)|Fadd11 F (133211@1) |
|--1-------1-----|---1--------3--|---5---1------------|
|---3-------1----|--1--------1---|--1----1------------|
|-3-------1------|-2--------2----|-2-----2------------|
|3-------3-------|3--------3-----|3------3------------|
|----------------|--------3-----3|--------------------|
|----------------|---------------|--------------------|
[pattern 1]
||: C5 C5 (D# G# D#/G F) :||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||.-/4---/4-------0---0-----.||
||.-/2---/2---0--2---0----2-.||
||--/2---/2--2--3---2--0-3---||
||----------3----------------||
||[electric] ||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||-9/10-9/10\----------------||
||-9/10-9/10\----------------||
||-7/8--7/8-\----------------||
| % | % |
When I look at the hole in your coat, I have to love you more
| % |F F7sus2 Fsus2|F F7Fadd5 (131241@1)F7|
I remember when I was a child and my brother slept on the floor
|[electric]
|---------------------------|-------------|
|---------------------------|-------------|
|---------------------------|5--3---------|
|---------------------------|3--1---1-1-1-|
|---------------------------|------------3|
|1--------------------------|-------------|
|[ptrn 1] | % |
Though I know that the sun don't shine down on every man
| %
But when a woman let my brother down
|F Fsus4 (113311@1)|Fsus2 F6sus2 |C5
I swore one day I'd land me, me one Mary
[electric]
|--------------------------|---------------------|----------|
|--------------------------|---------------------|----------|
|--------------------------|---------------------|5---------|
|---3------------------6~-3|---------------------|5---------|
|--3-----------------------|---------------------|3---------|
|1-------------------------|---------------------|----------|
[interlude 1; acoustic only; pedal C; approx pedal time]
Mmmm, land me one Mary
|--------|---------|----------|---------|----------|
|--------|------|------|------|------|
|--------|------|------|------|------|
|--------|------|------|------|------|
|--------|---------|----------|---------|----------|
|0-0-0-0-|--0-0-0-0|---0-0-0-0|----0-0-0|---0-0-0-0|
[pattern 2; approx. pedal time]
Bb||:C F (133211@1)name="chord_x43121@3">Eb :||:C F (133211@1)name="chord_x43121@3">Eb Bb:||
---||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||
---||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||
---||.----9\7-------7--------------.||.----9\7-------7--------------.||
-7/||.9---7\5--------------------7/.||.9---7\5--------------------7/.||
-5/||-7---------7/9---10-7-------5/-||-7---------7/9---10-7-------5/-||
0-0||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||
[electric; enters after 4 rpts] ||[riff arranged for electric] ||
---||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||
---||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||
---||.5----------------------------.||.--------------3--------------.||
---||.5----------------------------.||.----3p0---------1------------.||
-1h||-3--------------------------1h-||-3---------1h3------3~------1h-||
---||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||
Oh, Mary, yeah
[interlude 2; omitted on Scoop version]
[repeat pattern 1]
When I looked at the hole in your coat, I had to love you more
I remember when I was a child, my brother slept on the floor, mmm-mmm
Though I know that the sun don't shine down on every man
But when women put my brother down
I swore one day I'd land, I swore I'd land me Mary
[outro; loose time]
|C5 C5(Mary) (x355xx@1) |----------------------------------------------0----------|
|0--------------------------------------0----------|
|4--------------------------------------4----------|
|2-----------------------------------------2----------|
|2---------------------------------------2----------|
|0---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0---0------------------0----------|
|[electric]
|C5 C5 (x355xx@1)=============
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