Detectorists Tab

by Johnny Flynn
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 2nd fret
Author Bl4ck0n3 [a] 142.
1 contributor total, last edit on Aug 1, 2019
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                             DETECTORISTS - Johnny Flynn
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Hi i thought I'd provide a tab for this awesome song. It's based on Liam Fitz' guitar lesson on youtube.
Put a capo on the 2nd fret, but make it leave out the low E string. That way we have a Drop D tuning,
but are still able to play Standard tuning chords.
 
Picking and chord wise it's basically the same as The Wrote & The Writ.
I'm going to tab the pattern out once and
then you'll have to apply it to the other chords he uses.
 
Listen to the song for timing!
 
Feel free to correct me.
 
Cheers
 
[Intro]
 
  D                                                  A             Bm
e|----0h2------------0h2---------------0h2-----------------------------------|
B|---------3--------------3-----------------3--------------2------------3----|
G|---------------------------------------------------------2------------4----|
D|----------0---------------0-----------------0------------2------------4----|
A|---------------------------------------------------0-------------2---------|
D|0---------------0---------------0------------------------------------------|
 
 
[Verse Picking Pattern]
 
  D
e|-----2---------------|
B|-------------3-------|
G|----------------0----|
D|-----0---------------|
A|---------------------|
D|0--------0-----------|
(hammer on and pull off the high E string at will) 
 
         D
Will you search through the loamy earth for me,
G                            D
Climb through the briar and bramble.
              A
I'll be your treasure.
 
For the A (bar it):
 
e|--------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------2-----2h3-------3----5----------5----|
G|-----2-------------------2--------------2---------|
D|-----2---------2-------2-------2------2--------2--|
A|0--------0---------0-------0------0-------0-------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
 
           Bm           D             Bm            D
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind,
           Bm              D
I knew the call of all the songbirds.
Bm                D     A (same as above)
They sang all the wrong words.
 
            Bm
I'm waiting for you,
            D
I'm waiting for you.
 
Bm A D G
Mmmmmm
Bm A D
Mmmmmm
 
Bm A D G
Mmmmmm
Bm A D
Mmmmmm
 
Will you swim through the briny sea for me,
 
Roll along the ocean's floor.
 
I'll be your treasure.
 
 
I'm with the ghosts of the men who can never sing again,
 
There's a place follow me.
 
Where a love lost at sea.
 
Is waiting for you.
 
Is waiting for you.
 
 
(Additional Lyrics as of the last season's finale:)
 
Would you drift over rolling fields for me,
 
Hoard me in the highest bough.
 
I will be your treasure
 
But in history's rhyme there's a place and a time
 
And truth to the gold that the folds cannot hold
 
I'm waiting for you
 
I'm waiting for you
 
[Ending]
 
D
 
 
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| h  Hammer-on
 
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8 comments
migster
Great job. The tip about the capo across 5 strings is one that people should include more often and, bizarrely, is one of music's best kept secrets.
+9
darrennie
Thanks very much Bl4ck0n3. Oh btw it's Loamy Earth not Lonely Earth.
+7
norfolklongdance
The right chords! - thanks.
+2