• Song:

    Tin Pan Alley

  • Artist:

    Stevie Ray Vaughan

  • Album:

    Three Bar Blues

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Author/Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Album: Couldn't Stand the Weather
Transcribed by: Sean Carey
Email: smcarey@pconline.com

I've been looking for this one for ages, and finally decided to
sit down and tab it out myself.  I'm pretty sure most of this is correct,
but feel free to let me know if there are any changes.

The key is C minor, and the basic chords are Cm Fm Gm.  The solos are
all basically in pentatonic minor.

By the way, in the process of tabbing this Windows notepad crashed
on me because I exceeded its 64k limit on file length.  So, I decided to
write a program to ease the pain of writing ASCII tabs, and the result
is Instab.  It's FREE, so you may want to try it out at the address above.

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                             (these are *really* fast)

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 Went down to Tin Pan Alley

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 see what was goin' on

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 thangs was too hot down there                     couldn't stay very long

-8----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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     yeah....                     Alley's the roughest place I've ever been

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 All the people down there

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 Livin' for their whiskey wine and gin

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              I heard a woman scream

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 Yeah an' I beat it to the door

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 Some cat was workin' that alley with a

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 Lord! With a 2x4            Yeah...

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 Alley's the roughest place I've ever been

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 All the people down there

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 Livin' for their whiskey wine and gin

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                         I heard a pistol shoot

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 Yeah and it was a 44                  Somebody killed a crap shooter 'cause

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 he didn't                          shake! rattle and roll.  hey...

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                   Alley's the roughest place I've ever been

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 All the people down there

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 killin' for their whiskey wine and gin (solo...)

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 (trem picked......)

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 I saw a cop standin'          with his hand on his gun

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                          said there's a raid boys now

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 Lord! Nobody Run! Hey...                   Alley's the roughest place I've

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---------------------------8-10-8-10-----------------------10-8---10-8-8h10---|
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---------------3-/8-----------------------------------------------------------|
 ever been

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 Yeah they took me away pan alley

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-------------------------------------8-----8-10-8----10/11-8-10-8------8------|
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 Lord, took me right back to the pen

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----------------------7-7/8-----------------------------10p8------------------|
-8-----------------------------------------------------------10---------------|
---10-9-8------8-8h10---------------------------------------------------------|
----------11-8----------------------------------------------------------------|


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