m: CheshirBat
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:28:22 EST
Subject: v/verve/rolling_people.tab
********************** DISCLAIMER ****************************
* *
* The notation of music contained herein is purely my *
* opinion of how it should be played. I used no outside *
* sources to decipher the music, I just listened very hard. *
* You may use this for entertainment purposes only. *
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"The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
Written by The Verve
Produced by Youth/The Verve
tabbed by Jeremy Joseph ([email protected])
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Intro:
A5 B5 (x4)
The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
Right after the last B5 chord:
D|--------7---9-------------| with delay pedal
A|---7/9--------------------|
Then comes the riff:
A B
E|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|--------------8------------9h7---| It's like this during the verses,
D|----7----9---(9)--9--------9-----| with slight ad-lib variations.
A|----7----9--------9--9--9--------|
E|----5----7-----------7--7--------|
It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
since that's basically the key to sounding like them.
* Verse 1 *
(with riff)
Been shot...
I got one more life,
Can you see it wastin' away?
But I got a plan,
Ahh..do you understand?
Play something like this in the B blues scale with
delay on the upward run...
* Verse 2 *
(I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)
With a drugstore life,
I was dealin' soda then of the white... (?!)
I don't shake no hands,
Cause then there's no fans...
*Chorus*
B
But here we are, the Rolling People
A G A G A B
Can't stay for long, we gotta go
B
So come alive, we're the Rolling People
A G A G A B
Don't ask why, we just know...
* Verse 3 *
On a big jet plane
with my briefcase and crime in my veins
I'll be the first to toast
Yeah..to my rockin' soul, yeah.
*Chorus*
B
And here we are, the Rolling People
A G A G A
Don't ask why, we don't know...
B
So come alive, we're the Rolling People
A G A G A B
Don't ask why, we just know...
Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
plays echoey notes in the B scale.
E|-----------------------------------|
B|---10-10-10---9b(10)---7(b)--------|
G|--------------------------9h7------|
Tell me do you know which way I'm gonna choose..
The lights are white and I am feelin' blue..
I hope you know which way I'm gonna fly..
Thank you for my life, I said good night, goodbye...
Best of luck.. This song (Texts of songs ) kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!
