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Stephanie's For L.A.

Music/Lyrics by Tim Bluhm
From the album "Back to the Grotto" (1992)
Tablature by Collin Spencer

Tab Symbols:
b   =  bend up (number after the b represents the target note)
r   =  release bend
h   =  hammer on
p   =  pull off
/   =  slide up
\   =  slide down

For a guide to text-file tab notation, check out this URL:
 http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab-notation.txt

Chord fingerings/shapes are at the end



[Intro Riff]

Guitar 1

|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-----2---2-------2---2------2---2-----------------|
|---------------------------------------0-0-0-0----|
|-2-2---2-----2-2---2----2-2---2----2-2------------|

[Just keep repeating this under the lead riff]

Guitar 2 (lead riff)

|----------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19---|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|

Repeat once, then the third time:

|------------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19-----|-14h17------14h17------|--\11---------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|

[Then the bridge right before the lyrics start]:

(D7)                                   (A)
|---------------------------------------|--5--|
|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7h8-8-8-8p7--7-5---------|--5--|
|-------------------------------7-7h9---|--6--|(A barre)
|---------------------------------------|--7--|
|---------------------------------------|--7--|
|---------------------------------------|--5--|

[Note: In some of the verses, the D7 alternates up to a D7sus4 (just add your 
 pinky to the 3rd fret on the high E string from a D7 chord)]

D7And (xx0212@1)what about my tailor my slowly mending lover

AShe (x02220@1)sews me clothes I could not bear to wait

D7My (xx0212@1)hands are locusts at her work, a green and fitting coat

AMade (x02220@1)upon the only honest loom

D7I (xx0212@1)remember last night's nightmare, my hand was in the road

A (x02220@1)                        GThe (320003@1)victim of some misdirected thresher

A (x02220@1)          G#m(arpeggio) (133111@4)We would run towards the sun

F# (244322@1)                A (x02220@1)         EDriving (022100@1)towards the city of the angels

Fill 1
|------------------|
|------------------|
|-(0h1-1)-1-1-2-4--| (0h1-1 is guitar 1, the rest is guitar 2)
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|

A (x02220@1)               G#m (133111@4)    
She would know of places we could go

F# (244322@1)          A (x02220@1)        ETo (022100@1)escape the homicide investigation men

Bm (x24432@1)                E (022100@1)And we're weaving through the traffic in the

Dadd9 (x43141@2)             AShuttle-through-the-loom (x02220@1)way

Bm (x24432@1)                E (022100@1) 
We'll mix our drinks with water that's from

Dadd9 (x43141@2)   AVery (x02220@1)far away

Bm (x24432@1)             E (022100@1)    
And we'll toast to every earthquake rolling

Dadd9 (x43141@2)        AUnderneath (x02220@1)the bay

Bm (x24432@1)          E (022100@1)             Dadd9And (x43141@2)we'll pardon every public servant's heavy cane, ohhh

(They'll never know my name)



A (x02220@1)                     Asus4Stephanie (x02230@1)lives there, Stephanie lives there

A (x02220@1)                     Asus4Stephanie (x02230@1)lives there, Stephanie lives there

A (x02220@1)                              D (xx0232@1)Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, oh.....

[Variation on Intro Riff]

|----------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19---|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|

|--------------------------------|
|-17b19--17b19--17b19--17b19r17--|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|



|-------------------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19r17b19-(3x)-|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|

|------------------------------------|
|-12b14--12b14--11b13--10b12r10---7--|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

D7(hold) (xx0212@1)                                                    
So I've committed murder like a crazed and angered dope

A (x02220@1)            
She's helped me plan a stunning getaway

D7 (xx0212@1)And when the lynch mob came and we escaped the heat

AAnd (x02220@1)went dancing at the local cabaret

D7We (xx0212@1)left those lawmen standing with thirteen yards of rope

AThey'll (x02220@1)never see me swinging from a palm tree

D7 (xx0212@1)She'll be sure to keep me safe here, entangled in her arms

A (x02220@1)                             GCuz (320003@1)I'm for her but Stephanie's for L.A., ohhhh

(*)
Stephanie's for L.A. (repeat several times)

[(*)Note: The vocals are staggered here.  Chords alternate between
 A and G, just listen to the song to hear it]

A (x02220@1)                 G (320003@1)                      
Aaaah,  And I would like to board the skybird....

[Interlude---play 4x]
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|------2-----3-----2-----3------2-----3-----2-----3-----2-|
|--0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2----0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2---|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|

|-----------------|--------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|
|--4-2------------|-2h4p2-----------2--| 
|------4-2--------|-------4--2--2h4----|
|----------4-2-0--|--------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|



A (x02220@1)               G#mFrom (133111@4)the ground, from the ground

D (xx0232@1)             AStephanie's (x02220@1)for L.A.

(G)    (A)   (G)        (A)
|------------|--5h7p5----------|
|------------|--------7-7------|
|------------|-------------6---|
|------------|-----------------|
|--5-4-5--7--|-----------------|
|------------|-----------------|

Chords:
A      [002220]
A      [577655] (barre)
E      [022100]
Bm     [224432]
D7     [x00212]
D7sus4 [x00213]
G#m    [466444]
Dadd9  [x00230] 
D      [x00232]
Asus4  [002230]

Questions/comments/corrections? Email collin@californiasoul.org

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