Tabbed by Tim Byron ([email protected]) This song is from the album "Strange Bird", but mostly tabbed from a live version played in early 2002. It's in 12 8, standard guitar tuning, with only two chords. INTRO: (orchestral bit. then:) | | x16 4 . . 1 . . 2 . . 3 . . 4 . . 1 . . 2 . . 3 . . e-------------------------------------------------- b-------------------------------------------------- g-------------------------------------------------- d-------------------------------------------------- a-4-----------------------4------------------------ e---3-2-0-------------------3-2-0------------------ (in that bit, adam mostly plays this guitar line, glenn mostly just plays an chord, Kiernan does stuff over the top) | | they married, a dandy and a back alley tough on the foreshore while kids in the needling rough stayed low, in, and laid til they'd had enough in the somersaulting hot roll of revolting september but thickets beneath the hot halo above The plague bodies bathed in their talentless love it's hot in the town with his back to the sea O darling don't put your veil over me. | | From thinking your life was about them, when long they were the thorns in his side the hard men got plucked and by measures were gone at pride it plucked and out, out it pried. where's the shame in a gentle man? Stand him next to me? it's hot in the town with its back to the sea O darling don't put your veil over me. | | honey we'll go without, honey grow old and thin i love you like i love my own skin | | x8 from thinking a life was about them but stranger the soft women lowed, came in and were in, to swoon, 'O welcome hot united sailor' welcome from unsteady decks and from danger did you see a new sun in the sky? the sun is blood and blood is a lie it's hot in the town with its back to the sea O darling don't put your veil over me... did you see a new sun in the sky? the sun is blood and blood is a lie it's hot in the town with it's back to the sea darling don't put your veil over me honey we'll go without, honey grow old and thin i love you like i love my own skin my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie grows old and thin i love her like i love my own skin i love her like i love my own skin. | x8
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