Tropicalia Chords

Song: Tropicalia
Artist: Beck
Composer: Beck Hansen
Album: Mutations
Tabbed by DJ  1st Feb 2015
 
Best played fingerstyle, the thumb playing the bass notes,
and the other fingers pluck upwards in a syncopated latin
rhythm. The top string is not really played.
 
NOTE: Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use voicings shown below in text:
 
Bm7    = x24232    A7   = x02020    B9  = x2122x
Bm7/F# = 224232    G#m7 = 464444    E7  = 020130
G7     = 353433    C#9  = x4344x    F#7 = 242322
Bb7    = x13131    F#m7 = 242222
 
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[Intro x2]
     Bm7   Bm7/F#  G7
e |--------------------|-----------------------|
B |---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G |---2--2-----2---4---|---4----4--4----4------|
D |----------------3---|---3----3--3----3------|
A |---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E |---------2------3---|---3----3--3----3------|
 
     Bm7   Bm7/F#  G7
e |--------------------|-----------------------|
B |---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G |---2--2-----2---4---|---4--4----4--4----4---|
D |----------------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|
A |---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E |---------2------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|
 
[Verse 1]
              Bm7   Bm7/F#          G7
Oh, when they beat        ...upon a broken guitar,
            Bm7     Bm7/F#              G7
And all the streets,       they reek of tropical charms,
             Bm7    Bm7/F#         G7
The embas  - sies        ...lie in hideous shards,
      Bb7                     A7
Where tourists snore and de - cay
 
[Verse 2]
              Bm7    Bm7/F#       G7
Oh, when they dance       ...in a reptile blaze,
           Bm7       Bm7/F#
You wear a mask,
           G7                    Bm7   Bm7/F#
An equa  - torial haze, into the past,
  G7                           Bb7                 A7
A colonial maze, where there's no more confetti to throw
 
[Chorus]
G#m7               C#9                        G#m7
      You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,
          C#9                  F#m7
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,
       B9                  E7         G7         F#7
Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be evict - ed
 
[Break]
  Bm7     Bm7/F#  G7          Bm7     Bm7/F#  G7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / | /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
 
[Verse 4]
              Bm7  Bm7/F#                 G7
You're out of luck,        you're singing funeral songs...
          Bm7    Bm7/F#                G7
...To the studs,         they're ana - bolic and bronze,
             Bm7    Bm7/F#                G7
They seem to strut      ...in their mil - lennial fog,
     Bb7                     A7
'Til they fall down and de - flate
 
[Chorus]
G#m7               C#9                        G#m7
      You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,
          C#9                  F#m7
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,
       B9                  E7         G7         F#7
Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be evict - ed
 
[Break]
  Bm7     Bm7/F#  G7          Bm7     Bm7/F#  G7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / | /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
 
[Verse 6]
Bm7  Bm7/F#    G7                  Bm7
      Oh,  and now you've had your fun,
Bm7/F#   G7              Bm7   Bm7/F#
Under an air-conditioned sun,
     G7               Bm7
It's burned into your eyes,
Bm7/F#     G7                  Bm7   Bm7/F#
Leaves you plain and left be - hind,
     G7                Bb7
I'll see them rise and fall...
            A7                  G#m7
...Into the jaws of a pestilent love
 
[Chorus]
             C#9                        G#m7
You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,
          C#9                  F#m7
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,
       B9                  E7         G7         F#7
Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be a vic - tim
 
[Coda - Repeat and end on Bm7]
   Bm7     Bm7/F# G7          Bm7     Bm7/F# G7
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