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From uunet!darwin.sura.net!newshost.latech.edu!VM.CC.LATECH.EDU!US30139 Tue Jul 21 16:20:45 PDT 1992
 Article: 930 of alt.guitar.tab
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 From: US30139@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU
 Subject: Re: TAB REQUEST:  Talking Heads
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 In article <83960@netnews.upenn.edu>
 ksm@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane) writes:
  
 >Does anyone have any Talking Heads, especially Once in A Lifetime, Psycho
 >Killer or Take Me To The River?
  
  
  
 Take Me to the River--Al Green, et al
  
 intro:       E7      Asus4  A(repeat vamp to verse 1)
  
  
         E7                                 Asus4   A
 verse 1:I don't know why I love you like I do
         E7                                         Asus4   A
         After all the changes you been putting me through
         E7                                Asus4   A
         You took my money and my cigarettes
         E7                              Asus4  A
         Now I ain't seen hide nor hair of you yet
  
  
                  C               G       D            A   A7
 chorus: I wanna know, won't you tell me, I'd love to say...
                        E7     Asus4  A   E7
         Take me to the river, wash   me down
                        E7   E7+5         Asus4  A       E
         Take me to the water,     put my feet   on the ground
  
  
 turnaround  Asus4  A
  
  
 verse 2:I don't know why she treated me so bad
         After all the things that we could have had
         Love is emotion that I can't forget
         My sweet sixteen I will never regret  (repeat chorus)
  
  
         Dbm       A
 bridge: Hold me, love me
         Dbm        A
         Please me, baby you can squeeze me
         B                                                                E7
         Til I drown, til I drown, til I drown, I'm gonna take you to the river
  
  
 verse3: I don't know why I love you like I do
         After all the changes you been putting me through
         Your sixteen candles are burnin' on my wall
         Telling me how you made a fool of them all (repeat chorus)
  
  
  
  
  
 verse
 chords:  E7      0 2 0 1 3 0  or...
          E7      0 7 6 7 5 0(I like this version better)
          Asus4   x 0 4 2 3 0
          A       x 0 2 2 2 0
  
 chorus chords:
          C       x 3 5 5 x x  or...
          C       x 3 5 5 0 0(jangly)
          G       3 5 5 x x x
          D       x 5 7 7 x x
          A       x 0 2 2 2 0(if you can get to it)
          A       5 7 7 x x x(if you can't)
          A7      x 0 7 6 8 x(funky chord, mute the A string)
          rest of the chorus chords like the verse chords, except...
          E7+5    0 7 6 7 8 0(mute both E strings or let 'em ring)
  
 bridge chords:
          Dbm     x 4 6 6 5 x
          A       x 0 2 2 2 x
          B       x 2 4 4 x x or...
          B       x 2 4 4 0 0 (jangly)
          B7      x x 4 2 4 x or...
          B7      x x 9 8 10 x (funky)
  
  
  
 This is a hybrid version of Al Green, Delbert McClinton, and the Talking Heads
 versions.  I hope I didn't goof on putting the chords down.  I'm new at this
 method.  Mike James  US30139@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU
  
  
  
  
 
 

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