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		Getting Ready For Christmas Day - Paul Simon
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Paul Simon
Getting Ready For Christmas Day (2010)
(Paul Simon)
Now on: "So Beautiful Or So What" (2011)

A funny little tune: lots of speech samples running in the background, the 
sparse playback (strummed acoustic guitar plus drum loop) slightly 
phased/auto-volumed but Simon's voice mixed up front and floating pleasantly 
above all the rumble. The lyrics are full of humour and wordplay. A very 
enjoyable Christmas surprise.

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The riff is played from beginning to end (might as well be a loop, too). 
I'm not sure whether the bass on the A string is really there, it might 
just be EQ-ed out.

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Riff (all through the song)
  A (x02220@1)                                                D/Ae|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| (x00232@1)B|2-0-2-0-3-2-----|3---2---0---2---|2-0-2-0-3-2----/|7---------------|
G|2-0-2-0-2-2-----|2---2---0---2---|2-0-2-0-2-2----/|7---------------|
D|2-0-2-0-2-2-----|2---2---0---2---|2-0-2-0-2-2----/|7---------------|
A|0-0-0-0-0-0-----|0---0-------0---|0-0-0-0-0-0-----|0---------------|
E|----------------|-------(3)------|----------------|----------------|

A (x02220@1)                                     D (xx0232@1)        Ae|----------------|2---0-------0---|----------------|----------------| (x02220@1)B|2-0-2-0-3-2-----|3---2---3---2---|2-2---3-3-------|2---------------|
G|2-0-2-0-2-2-----|2---2---2---2---|2-2---2-2-------|2---------------|
D|2-0-2-0-2-2-----|2---2---2---2---|2-2---4-4-------|2---------------|
A|0-0-0-0-0-0-----|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Outro turnaround
  A (x02220@1)   D (xx0232@1)        Ae|----------------|----------------| (x02220@1)B|2-2---3-3-------|2---------------|
G|2-2---2-2-------|2---------------|
D|2-2---4-4-------|2---------------|
A|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|

AFrom (x02220@1)early in November

To the last week of December
                                DI (xx0232@1)got money matters weighing me down
        AOh, (x02220@1)the music may be merry

But it's only temporary
                         D (xx0232@1)       AI'm (x02220@1)no Santa Claus who's coming to town

AIn (x02220@1)the day I work my day job

In the night I work my night
                                       DBut (xx0232@1)it all comes down to working man's pay
        AGettin' (x02220@1)ready, yeah, I'm getting' ready
          D (xx0232@1)       AReady (x02220@1)for Christmas day

Riff (2x)

AI (x02220@1)got a nephew in Iraq

It's his third time back
                                DBut (xx0232@1)it's ending up the way it began
         AWith (x02220@1)the luck of a beginner

He'll be eating turkey dinner 
                      D (xx0232@1)     AOn (x02220@1)some mountain top in Pakistan

A (x02220@1)                          DGettin' (xx0232@1)ready, oh, we're getting' ready
        AFor (x02220@1)the power and the glory
                 D (xx0232@1)       AAnd (x02220@1)the story of Christmas day

Riff (2x)

Riff (+ Solo)

A (x02220@1)                          DGettin' (xx0232@1)ready, oh, we're getting' ready
        AFor (x02220@1)the power and the glory
                 D (xx0232@1)       AAnd (x02220@1)the story of Christmas day

Riff
(Yes, we're getting ready, ready)

AI (x02220@1)could tell my mum and dad

That the things we never had
                                DDidn't (xx0232@1)matter, we were always O.K.
         AGetting' (x02220@1)ready, oh, ready
         D (xx0232@1)        AReady (x02220@1)for Christmas day

A (x02220@1)               DReady, (xx0232@1)gettin' ready
        AFor (x02220@1)the power and the glory
                D (xx0232@1)        AAnd (x02220@1)the story of Christmas day

| AD | A| (x02220@1)AD | A(Outro (x02220@1)turnaround)