• Song:

    Elephant

  • Artist:

    Tame Impala

  • Album:

    Elephant

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

Hey guys, greetings from Valparaíso, Chile.

Here are the notes and the tuning (D tuning) you should use to play Elephant properly.

This is my first tab ever, so I hope it will be useful for y'all.


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   "Well he feels like an elephant, shaking his
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   big grey trunk for the hell of it"             "He knows
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D||12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||

   that you're dreaming 
                about being loved by
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D||-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5--||

     him"
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   "Too bad your 
   chances are slim".
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G||-----------------< Snare, tom, floor tom fill>--10-10-||
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D||-12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||

   "And is not like Mr. Shuck to get shy
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   when they ask him who is on top"              "There must
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    be something deep
             down in the dark down
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     there"    
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    "He's not too
     easily scared".
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C||--9-10-9-8-9-8-7--------------------------------------||
G||-----------------< Snare, tom, floor tom fill>--10-10-||
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G||-----------------------------------------------10-10-||
D||-12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||

   "He's got friends but they got fear
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D||-12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-||

   Wouldn't care too much if he just disappeared" "Oh, look
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   see there
     he is now coming down the 
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C||--------------------12h14------||
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    stairs"  
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D||-12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12/||

                                                   "Here he comes".  
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C||----------------------------------------------------------------||
G||---------------/12--10--9--8--7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------||
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1:15
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D||------------2--3h5-||

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D||--10--9--8--7-----------------------------------------------||

1:46
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G||-9--10--12/-------2||
D||------------2--3h5-||


F||----------------------------------------------------------------||
C||----------------------------------------------------------------||
G||----------------------------------------------------------------||
D||12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12/-||


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G||--------------/12--10--9--8--7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7||
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2:17
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2:45
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D||--12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||


   "He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac    (Yeah!)
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  'Cause he doesn't like it
       looking like he looks back"               "He talks 
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D||12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||


     like his opinion is a simple
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    fact"  
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D||-12--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12----||

   "Somebody grabbed his collar
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   He cried the whole way home"                   "No one
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D||12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------||

   been remembered a 
               thing when they saw him 
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     again"
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   "That's how it is
       'til the end"                                Yeah!
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G||-----------------<---------Drum Solo Fill------->---------10-10-||
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