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Subject: Re: TAB REQUEST:  Talking Heads
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ksm@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane) writes:
 
>Does anyone have any Talking Heads, especially Once in A Lifetime, Psycho
>Killer or Take Me To The River?
 
 
 
Take Me to the River--Al Green, et al
 
intro:       E7      Asus4  A(repeat vamp to verse 1)
 
 
        E7 (020130@1)                               Asus4 (x02230@1) Averse (x02220@1)1:I don't know why I love you like I do
        E7 (020130@1)                                       Asus4 (x02230@1) A (x02220@1)       After all the changes you been putting me through
        E7 (020130@1)                              Asus4 (x02230@1) A (x02220@1)       You took my money and my cigarettes
        E7 (020130@1)                            Asus4 (x02230@1)A (x02220@1)       Now I ain't seen hide nor hair of you yet
 
 
                 C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1)          A (x02220@1) A7chorus: (x02020@1)I wanna know, won't you tell me, I'd love to say...
                       E7 (020130@1)   Asus4 (x02230@1)A (x02220@1) E7 (020130@1)       Take me to the river, wash   me down
                       E7 (020130@1) E7+5         Asus4 (x02230@1)A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)       Take me to the water,     put my feet   on the ground
 
 
turnaround  Asus4  A
 
 
verse 2:I don't know why she treated me so bad
        After all the things that we could have had
        Love is emotion that I can't forget
        My sweet sixteen I will never regret  (repeat chorus)
 
 
        Dbm (x13321@4)     Abridge: (x02220@1)Hold me, love me
        Dbm (x13321@4)      A (x02220@1)       Please me, baby you can squeeze me
        B (x2444x@1)                                                              E7 (020130@1)       Til I drown, til I drown, til I drown, I'm gonna take you to the river
 
 
verse3: I don't know why I love you like I do
        After all the changes you been putting me through
        Your sixteen candles are burnin' on my wall
        Telling me how you made a fool of them all (repeat chorus)
 
 
 
 
 
verse
chords:  E7 (020130@1)    0 2 0 1 3 0  or...
         E7 (020130@1)    0 7 6 7 5 0(I like this version better)
         Asus4 (x02230@1) x 0 4 2 3 0
         A (x02220@1)     x 0 2 2 2 0
 
chorus chords:
         C (x32010@1)     x 3 5 5 x x  or...
         C (x32010@1)     x 3 5 5 0 0(jangly)
         G (320003@1)     3 5 5 x x x
         D (xx0232@1)     x 5 7 7 x x
         A (x02220@1)     x 0 2 2 2 0(if you can get to it)
         A (x02220@1)     5 7 7 x x x(if you can't)
         A7 (x02020@1)    x 0 7 6 8 x(funky chord, mute the Astring) (x02220@1)         rest of the chorus chords like the verse chords, except...
         E7+5    0 7 6 7 8 0(mute both Estrings (022100@1)or let 'em ring)
 
bridge chords:
         Dbm (x13321@4)   x 4 6 6 5 x
         A (x02220@1)     x 0 2 2 2 x
         B (x2444x@1)     x 2 4 4 x x or...
         B (x2444x@1)     x 2 4 4 0 0 (jangly)
         B7 (x21202@1)    x x 4 2 4 x or...
         B7 (x21202@1)    x x 9 8 10 x (funky)
 
 
 
This is a hybrid version of Al Green, Delbert McClinton, and the Talking Heads
versions.  I hope I didn't goof on putting the chords down.  I'm new at this
method.  Mike James  US30139@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU