Stereophonics
Mr. Writer

Tabbed by Sakina (yes girls can play the guitar!!!)



This tab is 100% correct and a lot easier than it looks. Try it, and see!
Happy strummin’!

Btw, this is exactly how the Stereophonics themselves play it.

The riffs are written as if the second fret is the first (because of capo)

Capo 1st fret 

Intro: repeated twice

E---------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------
G-4-2-0---------4-2-0-0-----------------
D------2-0-2-0-2-----2-2----------------    
A---------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------


Pre-Chorus:

E---------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------
G-4^-2-4^-2-----------------------------
D----------4^---------------------------
A---------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------

Chorus: a little trickier

E-------8-------------
B----8-9---8----------
G--10----10-----------
D--------------------
A---------------------
E---------------------

On some parts of the chorus, they add a few notes to the above riff. If you listen to it, you’ll figure it out.







Em  Dsus2    
You line them up
 Cmaj7
Look at your shoes

You hang names on your wall
Em       Dsus2     Cmaj7
Then you shoot them all
Em        Dsus2
You fly around in planes
  Cmaj7
That bring you down
                         Em
To meet me who loves you, like
  Dsus2            Cmaj7
Me crashing to the ground
            Dsus2
Are you so lonely?
           Cmaj
Don't even know me
                 Dsus2
But you'd like to stone me

(Chorus)
Em                                G6
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
                             A7
Why don't you tell it like it really is?
             C9
Before you go on home

(Verse 2 same as Verse 1)

Em        Dsus2
I used to treat you right
     Cmaj7
Give you my time

But when I'd turn my back on you
Em       Dsus2       Cmaj7
Then you do what you do
Em     Dsus2           Cmaj7
You've just enough, in my own view

Education to perform
Em       Dsus2         Cmaj7
I'd like to shoot you all
             Dsus2
And then you go home
            Cmaj7
With you on your own
            Dsus2
What do you really know?

(Chorus)
Em								G6
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
                              A7
Why don't you tell it like it really is?
                 C9
Before you go on home

              Dsus2
And then you go home
              Cmaj7
With you on your own
              Dsus2
What do you even know?
(Chorus)
Em                                G6
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
                              A7
Why don't you tell it like it really is?
                C9
Before you go on home
Em                                       G6
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
                              A7
Why don't you tell it like it always is?
                C9 
Before you go on home
Em                                       G6
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it really is?
                              A7
Why don't you tell it like it always is?
                  C9
Before you go on home……………


I haven’t tabbed the end riff yet but it sounds simple enough. I’ll try to add it later