• Song:

    The Preacher

  • Artist:

    Testament

  • Album:

    Days of Darkness (disc ...

TESTAMENT - THE PREACHER 2001
From the Album FIRST STRIKE STILL DEADLY
Copyright 2001 SPITFIRE RECORDS
Tune Gtr to D (D,G,C,F,A,D)

 [Rhy.Fig.1]
||-->---------------------|->----------------------||
||-->---------------------|->----------------------||
||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||
||--4-(4)-----------------|-4-(4)------------------||
||--4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220-|-4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220--||
          |__|__| |_|_|_|         |__|__| |_|_|_|
             3       6               3       6


                        ______________ ____________________________________
 [Rhy.Fig.2]           |1,3.          |2.
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-->---->-------------->--->--->-----|->---->------------->--->--->-------|
||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|
||--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00--2-0-4-0-5/7-0-|-4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00-2-0-4-0-5-0-----|
||-------------p-p--------------sl----|------------p-p---------------------|
      ..   ..       ..    .   .     .     ..   ..       ..   .   .   .



______________________________________
                                      |
|------------9------------------------|
|---------7---------------------------|
|------7------------------------------|[Gtr.1]
|--/7---------------------------------|
|-sl-------------0--------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|      @  @  @   .                    |
|                                     |
|                                     |
|------------9------------------------|
|------7--10--------------------------|
|--/7---------------------------------|[Gtr.2]
|-sl----------------------------------|
|----------------0--------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
       @   @ @   .



 _____________________________________
|4.                                   |
|-------------------------------------||
|-->---->------------>--->------------||
|--6----6------------4---6--->-->-->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--6----6------------4---6---5--5--5-*||
|--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-0-2-0-4-0-5--5--5--||
|-------------p-p------------3--3--3--||
     ..   ..       .   .   .


 [Rhy.Fig.3]
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||----------------------->------|------------------------>-----|
||*----------------------3------|------------------------2-----|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----2----------------3------|-----2------------------2-----|
||--2-222----------------1------|-2-222------------------0-----|
||--0-000-----------------------|-0-000------------------------|
||  . ..^                         . ..^                        |
||                                                             |
||                                                             |
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||---------------8--------------|------------------8-----------|
||*------------9---9------------|----------------9---9---------|[Gtr.3]
||*----------9-------9---8~-----|--------------9-------9-7~----|
||------/710--------------------|---------/710-----------------|
||-----sl-----------------------|--------sl--------------------|
           @ @ @ @ @ @                       @ @ @ @ @ @




|-------------------------------|------------------------------||
|------------------------>------|-------------------------->---||
|------------------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-------2----------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||
|--2222-2----------------3------|-7-77-7---------------8--8----||
|--0000-0----------------3------|-0-00-0---------------8--8----||
|  .... ^                           .. ^               ^(Hold!)||
|                                                              ||
|                                                              ||
|-------------------------------|-----------------7------------||
|-----------------8-------------|---------------8---8----------||
|---------------9---9-----------|-------------9-------9-------*||[Gtr.3]
|-------------9-------9-10~-----|-----------9----------10~----*||
|--------/710-------------------|------/710--------------------||
|-------sl----------------------|-----sl-----------------------||
            @ @ @ @ @ @                   @ @ @ @ @ @ @


                                 _____________  __________________
 [Rhy.Fig.4]                    |1.           ||2.                |
||--------------------------------------------||------------------||
||------------------------------------>-------||-->------->-------||
||*-----------------------------------3------*||*-3-------3-------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1------*||*-1-------3-------||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1-------||--1-------1-------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000-----------||------------------||
    . ...  . ...  . ...  . ...  ...



 ___________________________
|3.                         |
|---------------------------||
|-------->------------------||
|--------5------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------5------------------||
|--222---3------------------||
|--000---3------------------||
   ...



 ___________________________
|4.                         ||
|---------------------------||
|-------------------->------||
|--------------------3-----*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------2-------------3-----*||
|--2-222-------------1------||
|--0-000--------------------||
|  . ..^                    ||
|                           ||
|                           ||
|---------------------------||
|-------------8-------------||
|-----------9---9----------*||[Gtr.3]
|---------9-------9--8~----*||
|----/710-------------------||
|---sl----------------------||
        @ @ @ @ @ @


                                 ____________  ___________________
 [Rhy.Fig.4a]                   |1,5.        ||2,6.               |
||-------------------------------------------||-------------------||
||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||
||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||
    . ...  . ...  . ...  . ...  ...



  _______________  _______________  ________________
 |3,7.           ||4.             ||8.              |
||---------------||---------------||----------------||
||-------->------||---------------||----------------||
||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||
||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||
||--000---3------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||
    ...                              |_|_| |_|_|_|
                                       3      6


                  ________________________________
 [Rhy.Fig.5]     |1,3.                  (Split)   |
||------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------|
||*-------------->-------------->-----------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*------4-------3------4-------3-------7--8--\---|
||-------2_0-----1------2_0-----1-------5--6~-\---|
||--0--1--p---0----0--1--p---0-----0--0----ph-sl--|
    .  .      .    .  .      .     .  .



 _________________________________________________
|2.                                               |
|-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------||
|--------------->------->-------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-------4-------3-------4-------------------------||
|-------2_0-----1-------2-------------------------||
|--0--1--p---0-----0--1----0--1--2--3-3-2--1-1-0--||
|  .  .      .     .  .    |__|__|  |_|_|  |_|_|  ||
|                             3       3      3    ||
|_________________________________________________||
|4.                                               ||
|---------------------->--------------------------||
|---------------------->--------------------------||
|-------------->-------4-------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------4-------3-------4-------------------------*||
|------2_0-----1-------2--------------------------||
|--0-1--p---0-----0-0--2--------------------------||
   . .      .     . .(Hold!)


Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.5  [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.1  [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.2  [1x]


                                 ____________  ___________________
 [Rhy.Fig.4b]                   |1,5.        ||2,6.               |
||-------------------------------------------||-------------------||
||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||
||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||
    . ...  . ...  . ...  . ...  ...



  _______________  _______________  ________________
 |3,7.           ||4.             ||8.              |
||---------------||---------------||----------------||
||-------->------||---------------||----------------||
||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||
||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||
||--000----------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||
    ...             .    .    .      |_|_| |_|_|_|
                                       3      6


 [Rhy.Fig.2a]
||-----------------------------------||----------------------|
||-->---->------------->--->--->-----||--->---->-------------|
||*-6----6-------------4---6---7/9\--||---6----6-------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6----6----4_2_0----4---6---7/9\--||---6----6----4_2_0----|
||--4-44-4-44--p-p-----2---4---5/7\--||---4-44-4-44--p-p-----|
||------------------00---0---0-sl-sl-||-0-----------------00-|
      ..   ..       ..   .   .          .   ..   ..       ..



 ______________________
|1.                    |
|----------------------||
|-->--->---------------||
|--4---6--->--->--->---||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4---6---5---5---5---||
|--2---4---5---5---5---||
|----0---0-3---3---3---||
|    .   . .   .   .   ||
|                      ||
|______________________||
|2.                    ||
|----------------------||
|-->--->---------------||
|--4---6--->--->--->--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4---6---5---5---5--*||
|--2---4---5---5---5---||
|----0---0-3---3---3---||
     .   .


[Guitar Solo] (Gtr.3)
|-12_(15)\11--12_(15)\11-|-12_(15)\11--12_(15)\11-|------------------|
|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|-15_fb17~---------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|------15-17_18_17_15----|-15-17_18_17_15---------|-15-17_18_17_15---|
|--/17------h--p--p--17~-|------h--p--p---17~-----|------h--p--p--17~|
|-sl-----------------h---|----------------h-------|---------------h--|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|




|--15-17_18_17_15\12-----|------------------------|------------------|
|-------h--p--p--sl-1512-|-11~-----12-14-15-14-12-|-14-12-------12---|
|---------------------p--|-----/14----------------|-------14-15------|
|------------------------|----sl------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|-------------10-11-10-8-|-10-8---7---------|
|--15-14-12-14-12----12--|------------------------|------9---10-9-7--|
|-----------------15-----|-15-14-12-14~-----------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|




|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----------9-7--------------/9~---_7--------------------------|
|--10---10-9-7--------10-7-10-9---sl-----p----9---8~---8_9_8_7\5-/7~-|
|--------------10---------------10----------------------h-p-p-sl-sl--|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------_14-----------7_9_7---7---------------7_9_7---7-------------|
|--/9----t---9~---------h-p--9---9_7----7-------h-p--9---9_7----7----|
|-sl--------ph--------------------p--10---10_7------------p--10------|
|-------------------------------------------p------------------------|




|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------7_9_7---7---------------------7-------------------------12---|
|--------h-p--9---9_7-----9~--------9---9_7----7-------------12------|
|--10_7------------p--10-ph----7-10------p--10---10_7-/10-14---------|
|----p---------------------------------------------p-sl--------------|




|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------14-----|
|-------------------------------14-------------------12_fb~----------|
|--14_12----12---------------14----15_12----12-----------------------|
|----p---14----14_12\-/12-15---------p---15----15_12-----------------|
|----------------p--sl---------------------------p-------------------|
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15_12-14_b15~-r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-------|
|----p--------------p---ph-------p---ph-----p-----ph-------p---14_12-|
|----------------------------------------------------------------p---|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|




|------------------12141514121412------12----------------------------|
|--------------/14-|_____|______|-1514--|-151412----12---------------|
|-------------sl---------7--------|__|__|-|__|_|-14--|-1412----------|
|------------------------------------3-------3----|__|_|__|-1412-----|
|--14_12\10-10~--------------------------------------4------|__|-14--|
|----p--sl-----------------------------------------------------|__|--|
|                  (Fast!)                                       3   |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|-----------------------------121415---------------------------------|
|----------------------121415-|__|_|-121415--------------------------|
|---------12----121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-121415-------------------|
|--121415-|_-15-|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-121415----121415--|
|--|__|_|---|_|----3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-|__|_|--|
|-----3------2----------------------------------------3---|__|--4----|




|------------------------------121415--------------------------------|
|---------121415--------121415-|__|_|-151412-------------------------|
|--121415-|__|_|-121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-151412------------------|
|--|__|_|----3---|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-151412----12-----|
|-----3-------------3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-||-15--|
|------------------------------------------------------3---|__||_|---|
|                                                             3      |
|                                                                    |
|                                                                    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--1412~-----------------------(12)~--------------------------(12)\--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------sl-|


 [Rhy.Fig.3a]
||--------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------->------|
||*------------------------------------------3------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*------------------------------------------3------|
||--2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----1------|
||--0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|
||  . ...   . ...   .  ...   . ...   ....           |
||                                                  |
||                                                  |
||------------------------15------------------------|
||-------------------17---------17------------------|
||*-------------16-------------------16-----15~-----|[Gtr.3]
||*--14----17---------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|




|---------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------->------|
|--------------------------------------------2------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------------------------2------|
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----0------|
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|
|   . ...   . ...   .  ...   . ...   ....           |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|-------------------------15------------------------|
|--------------------17---------17------------------|
|---------------16-------------------16-----14~-----|[Gtr.3]
|----14----17---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|




|---------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------->------|
|--------------------------------------------5------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------------------------5------|
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----3------|
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000----3------|
|   . ...   . ...   .  ...   . ...   ....           |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|-------------------------15------------------------|
|--------------------17---------17------------------|
|---------------16-------------------16-----17~-----|[Gtr.3]
|----14----17---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|




|---------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------>-->-->--||
|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222-8--8--8---||
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-8--8--8---||
|   . ...   . ...   .  ...   . ...   ....           ||
|                                                   ||
|                                                   ||
|-------------------------19----15------------------||
|--------------------17----------------17-----------||
|---------------16---------------------------17~---*||[Gtr.3]
|----14----17--------------------------------------*||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.6]
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------------->------|------------------------>-------|
||*------9---7-----9--7"-/10------|------9---7-----7----7"-8--->---|[Gtr.1]
||*-------------------7"-/10------|---------------------7"-8---8---|
||--7-7---7---7-7---7-5"-/8-------|-7-7---7---7-7---7-7-5"-6---8---|
||----------------------sl--------|----------------------------6---|
||  . .   .   . .   . .             . .   .   . .   . .            |
||                                                                 |
||                                                                 |
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|------------------------>-------|
||*->-----------------------------|------------------------8--->---|[Gtr.2]
||*-2-----------------------------|------------------------8---8---|
||--2-----------------------------|------------------------6---8---|
||--0-----------------------------|----------------------------6---|




Let ring - -                                  - ]
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|------9---7-----7_9---9----7---9-|---7---7_9--7---->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.1]
|-----------------h---------------|--------h----X\--5---5---5-----*||
|-7-7---7---7-7-----7---7---7-7---|-7--7----7---X\--5---5---5------||
|---------------------------------|--------------sl-3---3---3------||
|                                                                  ||
|                                                                  ||
|                                                                  ||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|->-------------------------------|----------------->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.2]
|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5-----*||
|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5------||
|-0-(0)---------------------------|-----------------3---3---3------||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [2x] (1st time, substitute below ending.)


 _______________
|4.             |
|---------------||
|---------------||
|-->------>----*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--5------5----*||
|--5------5-----||
|--3------3-----||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [2x] (Last time, use below ending.)


[Outro]
|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||
|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||
|--4--------------------------|-(4)---------------------->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4--------------------------|-(4)----------------------2-*||
|--2--------------------------|-(2)----------------------2--||
|--2--------------------------|-(2)-0-2-3-443-332-0-0-1--0--||
                                    |_|_| |_|_|_| |_|_|(End!)
                                      3      6      3

--'THE PREACHER' LYRICS--

(Skolnick, Peterson, Billy)

In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.

In 1906
Like the future predicts
The city will crumble to the bay
Then what's in store
When the worlds go to war?
Peace will have come another day
Then came the one
In the year of '41
Warfare would light up the sky
He beckoned the call
Of the future for all
Blinded by what's in his eyes

In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.

Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach

Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
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