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Song: THE TAILOR
Artist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: "Destroyer of the Void" [2010]
Tab by Devin Miller
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
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CHORD REFERENCE:
G Bb C Dm F Gm
e|--3-------0---1---1---3---|
B|--3---3---1---3---1---3---|
G|--0---3---0---2---2---3---|
D|--0---3---2---0---3---5---|
A|--2---1---3-------3---5---|
E|--3-------3-------1---3---|
G
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G
I'm a long way from my home
Bb C Dm
I was borne on the raging sea
F Bb C F
And when I first struck land, with my head in hand
Dm F C
I built a house out of an old oak tree
Dm F C Gm
And raised a family out of earth and electricity
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G
And I was king of my domain
Bb C Dm
But my fortitude approved in vain
F Bb C F
And when the locust came like a summer rain
Dm F C
Devouring everything that I held dear
Dm F C
And all I'd worked for simply disappeared
F Bb C F
So I crept away, for I had debts to pay
Dm F C
And joined the army as a privateer
Dm F C Gm
Yeah, it was then, the wind had whispered, but I would not hear
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Acoustic guitar solo (chords written above the bar):
G Gm
e|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|-8----------------|
B|-------------5-7s|10-7s5-----------|-----------6-8s10-|---10s8-6---------|
G|-----0---4-7-----|-------7-4p0-----|-----0---5--------|----------7p0-----|
D|-0h5---5---------|-------------4---|-0h5---5----------|--------------7---|
A|-----------------|---------------5-|------------------|------------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------------|
F
e|--------------8-10s|13-10s8------------|
B|-------6-8s10------|--------10-8-6-----|
G|-----7-------------|---------------7-5-|
D|-5h7---------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------| --> repeat solo twice.
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G
So we sailed out across the land
Bb C Dm
Through an ocean made of sinking sand
F Bb C F
And though I lost my men, I was born again
Dm F C
As a tailor in an unknown land
F Dm C
With a needle and some thread in hand
F Bb C F
Mending suits and slacks, stitching up the cracks
Dm F C
In the backs of my neighbour's heads
Dm F C Gm
And soon the word, yeah, of my work had spread through the town
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INTERLUDE
SYNTH:
e|----------------------|-------------------|
B|-3s10-8----8----------|------------10-8---|
G|--------10---7-10-9-7-|-9------9-7------7-|
D|----------------------|---10-7------------|
A|----------------------|-------------------|
E|----------------------|-------------------|
ACOUSTIC GUITAR:
Gm Dm Am F C
e|---0-----0---------1-----1-------|---0-----0---------0-------0-----|
B|-----3-----3---------3-----3-----|-----1-----1---------3-------3---|
G|-------3-----3---------2-----2---|-------2-----2---------2-------2-|
D|-----------------0-------------0-|-----------------3---------------|
A|---------------------------------|-0-------------0---------3-------|
E|-3-------------3-----------------|---------------------------------|
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G
So before the king I stood
Bb C Dm
I said, I come from the raging sea
F Bb C F
And let the truth be told, I am not so old
Dm F C
As you might first have taken me to be
F Dm C
For numbers never could apply to me
F Bb C F
For I'm as old as time, and maybe half as blind
Dm F C
What some of you might call infinity
Dm F C Gm
Yeah, I'm the tailor of the earth and electricity
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**Repeat acoustic guitar solo
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End with this solo (time signature changes to 7/8)
e|---------------|----------------|
B|-------------5-|-7s10-7s5-------|
G|-----0---4-7---|----------7-4p0-|
D|-0h5---5-------|----------------|
A|---------------|----------------|
E|---------------|----------------| --> fade out
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NOTATION LEGEND:
| s slide
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
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