The Thames Tab

Tabbed by Pliskin NH.
 
** DROPPED D TUNING **
 
Underlying Riff (Played With Reverb and Dirty Dist, Very Sloppily)
(Barred E chord strummed in Background)
 
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------2--3432-0-2--3430-|
A|---------------------2--2320-2--2320--------------------|
D|-0-2--4542-0-2--4542------------------------------------|
 
(Played when going back to verse)
E|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|---2-------0------2----------|
D|--2--2---2---2---2--2--------|
A|0------0-------0------0------|
D|-----------------------54202-|
 
(Played when transfering to chorus)
E|-------------------------0---|
B|------------------------0----|
G|---2-------0------2----------|
D|--2--2---2---2---2--2--------|
A|0------0-------0------0------|
D|-----------------------------|
 
 
1st >Is love, just a big mistake?
1st >Just a risk that we all take?
1st >Trying to keep all the blues away...
 
2nd >Is love, just a means to an end?
2nd >Back when you were my girlfriend,
2nd >Had someone I could defend...
 
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CHORUS(Chords are strummed by one acoustic guitar, and picked by another)
\ = Switch between
 
C \ C/D                                                      G \ G7sus4
I'll sit by the riverside, counting all the ways to make you stay...
 
C \ C/D                                                     D \ Gsus2
But when I think of you and I, I know I'll be back with you someday...
 
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VERSE (Back to Underlying Riff)
 
3rd >Is love, just a big mistake?
3rd >Just a choice we have to make?
3rd >Trying to keep the blues away...
 
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REPEAT CHORUS
 
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VERSE
 
(Picked quietly)
Low D|--2----| 4th > All the birds and the bees, and the leaves on the trees
    A|--2----| 4th > Die all at once, now that you're gone
    D|--2----| 4th > I know that I will be back in your arms once again
 
(Strummed)
      Em
5th > All the birds and the bees, and the leaves on the trees
 
      Asus2
5th > Die all at once, now that you're gone
 
      Em                                           A       Asus4     A
5th > I know that I will be back in your arms once again
 
 
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REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT VERSE 1, End.
 
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There, simple song, straightforward tablature. The picking of the chords during the
is supersimple to listen and figure out.
 
Note: The Chorus C chord is played with the low D string as 2, and The G
chord should be barred.
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