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Big Big Train - The First Rebreather
from English Electric Part 1 (2012)
Transcribed by Cory (coryp23@gmail.com)
Standard tuning
Dm (riff 1)
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(3)----(3)(3)------(3)(3)------(3)---|
-2------2--3--------3--5--------5----|
-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
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Dm (riff 1)
In a place where the river banks draw near
Men work a heading to the west.
Where streams like giants' fingers close
From the hills to the emptiness beneath,
C
To the depths of the mere.
C#m Dsus2 Esus2 Dsus2
-4-------5--------7------5-----|
-5-------5--------7------5-----|
-6-------7--------9------7-----|
-6-------7--------9------7-----|
-4-------5--------7------5-----|
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Morning light, midwinter sun
C#m Dsus2 Esus2 C#m7b5
-4-------5------7------------|
-5-------5------7-----5------|
-6-------7------9-----4------|
-6-------7------9-----5------|
-4-------5------7-----4------|
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Underneath; the river song.
Dm (riff 1)
In a place where the river banks draw close
Men break stone to make new ground.
Light and air are hard down deep to find
Engines work to hold the water back
To the edge of the mere.
C#m Dsus2 Esus2
'Run boys run toward the light;
C#m Dsus2 Esus2
The river's in, the tunnel's in';
A
Here she comes
D/A
The sleeper wakes,
A
Ten thousand years
G
She lay in wait for this.
Dm (riff 1)
Every night their dreams were filled
With the fear of the river breaking in.
But this was not a river god,
This was something rising from the deep,
From the depths of the mere.
C#m Dsus2 Esus2
'Run boys run make for the light,
C#m Dsus2 Esus2
Save yourselves, the tunnel's in.'
A
Here he comes
D/A
The first rebreather,
A
Like a mummer,
G
Like a souler (Come to save them.)
| Bm/F# | G/F# | Bbdim | Em |
| D | F#7/C# | % |
Flute solo:
| Bm | G/B | Bbdim | Em |
| D | F#7/C# | % |
| Bm | G/B | A | G |
| Em | D | F#7/C# | % |
Bm G/B Bbdim Em D
Rising up to the height of the river (river)
F#7
At flood tide.
Bm G/B A/E G/D
Engines fail, lost to the water
Bsus Em7
As silence falls.
Dsus2 Bm7 G/B
This man will walk into darkness,
Em Dsus2 Bm7 G/B
One foot in front of the other,
Bm G/B Bbdim
Into the unsounded depths
Em D F#7
Of the heading; (ooh-ooh oooh) Ouuu-
Bm G/B Bbdim
Out into the fifth circle of hell,
G/D Bm
With no light to lead him home,
F#7 Em7
Man is all alone at the end.
Dsus2 Bm G/B
This man will walk into darkness
Em7 Dsus2 Bm G/B
Without fear of what lurks in the shadows.
| Bm | G/B | Bbdim | Em |
| D | F#7/C# | % |
Guitar Solo:
| Bm | G/B | Bbdim | Em |
| D | F#7/C# | % |
| Bm | G/B | A | G |
| Em | D | F#7/C# | % |
Em7 Dsus2 Bm G/B
Watching the surface grow quite still,
Em7 Dsus2 Bm G/B
Waiting for hope at the ninth hour,
Em7 Dsus2 Bm G/B
Man all alone in the darkness.
Em
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-2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--|
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Em Em/D D
-------2---5----------7---10-----------14----17--|
---3-----3--------8-----8--------15-------15-----|
-4---4----------9---9---------16----16-----------|
-2--------------0-------------0------------------|
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Here he
| A | D/A | A | D/A |
comes Aaaaa-aaahh
| A | D/A | F/G | C/G | G |
na na naa
| A | D/A | A | D/A |
| A | D/A | F/G | C/G | G |
| A | D/A | A | G |
| Em | D Bm | G/B |
| Em | D Bm | G/B |
| Em | D
