Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Everything Must Go
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CHORDS USED:
Most of the chords are barre, and I only used
flats in the chord names because I felt like it.
EADGBE
Bm: 224432 Am: 577555 A5: 577---
D6: -3-232 Bb: 688766 D5: -577--
D: --0232 Db: 446664 Db5:-466--
Em: 022000 Ab: 466544 Gb5:244---
F: 133211 C: 335553 Dbm:446654
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NOTATION:
^ = accented
s = sixteenth note
E = eighth note
Q = quarter note
H = half note
. = dotted note
x = muted
/ or \ = slide
b = bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
lr= let ring
|----|
|o--o|
|----| = repeat
|----|
|o--o|
|----|
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CHORD STRUMMING:
I'm not sure about the upstrokes and downstrokes, but for
the first part of the song it goes like this with each chord:
^ ^ ^ ^
sssssssssssEsss
(v-- It's really good)
Please buy the album or something and listen to
the song for exactness blablabla now the tab/chords.
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(acoustic comes in 30 seconds into the song)
Bm Bm
Bm D6
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
D Em
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
F Am Bb Db
Limited face paint and dyed black quift
Ab C
Overweight and out of date (repeat verse,
second time just play the C once and let ring)
Q E. s s s Q. (etc, play all power chords this way)
|---------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
|o--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------o|
|---------------------|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|--------------------|
|--7---7---x-7-x-7----|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|
|o-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-5---5---x-5-x-5----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|-4---4---x-4-x-4---o|
|--5---5---x-5-x-5----|--------------------|--------------------|-2---2---x-2-x-2----|
A- merican trilogy In Lancaster pottery
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so fucking funny don't you know
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes)
It's so fucking funny don't you know
Instead of the Db, you can instead play this:
E E E E E E E E E E E E H
|-4-4-----4-4-----|-4-4-------------|
|-----5-------5---|-----6-----------|
|-------4-------4-|-------6---------|
|-----------------|---------6lr-----|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy the future's dead fundamentally
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so fucking funny it's absurd
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternative)
It's so fucking funny it's absurd
SOLO: (in the background )
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E E E Q E. s Q E E H+E s s s s E
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|---------------4-|-----6--9-9b11b9-6-4-|-4lr-------/-----4h7-7-|
|---------------4-|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-4-------------------|-------------4h7-------|
|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
(|---------| faster than sixteenth)
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E Q s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Q Q E Q.
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|----------------6-|-7---9b11b9-7-9--|-8h9p8p6-8p6---6----------------------|---------------------|
|-7---9b11b9-7-9---|-----------------|-------------9--------9h11-11b12b11-9-|-11--11--11-11lr-----|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------9s11-----------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
Bb(lr) Gb5
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternate)
Dbm(lr)
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
