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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:40:30 EST
 From: CheshirBat 
 Subject: TAB: The Rolling People - by Verve
 "The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
 Written by The Verve
 Produced by Youth/The Verve
 tabbed by Jeremy Joseph (CheshirBat@aol.com)
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 Intro:
 	A5  B5  (x4)
 
 The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
 wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
 Right after the last B5 chord:
 
 D|--------7---9-------------|  with delay pedal
 A|---7/9--------------------|
 
 
 Then comes the riff:
       A    B
 E|---------------------------------|
 B|---------------------------------|
 G|--------------8------------9h7---|  It's like this during the verses,
 D|----7----9---(9)--9--------9-----|  with slight ad-lib variations.
 A|----7----9--------9--9--9--------|
 E|----5----7-----------7--7--------|
 
 It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
 since that's basically the key to sounding like them.
 
 * Verse 1 *
 (with riff)
 
   Been shot...
 
   I got one more life,
   Can you see it wastin' away?
   But I got a plan,
   Ahh..do you understand?
 
 
 (solo 1)  - Played sort of distorted and bluesy
 
 E|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 B|----------------7-----------------|-------------------7----------------|
 G|-----------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7----|--------------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7---|
 D|-------7h9----------------------7-|--------7h8h9---------------------7-|
 A|---7h9----------------------------|--7h8h9-----------------------------|
 E|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 
 Play something like this in the B blues scale with
 delay on the upward run...
 
 
 * Verse 2 *
 (I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)
 
   With a drugstore life,
   I was dealin' soda then of the white... (?!)
   I don't shake no hands,
   Cause then there's no fans...
 
 
 *Chorus*
 
 B
   But here we are, the Rolling People
 A                                   G  A  G  A  B
   Can't stay for long, we gotta go
 B
   So come alive, we're the Rolling People
 A                                   G  A  G  A  B
   Don't ask why, we just know...
 
 
 * Verse 3 *
 
 On a big jet plane
 with my briefcase and crime in my veins
 I'll be the first to toast
 Yeah..to my rockin' soul, yeah.
 
 *Chorus*
 
 B
   And here we are, the Rolling People
 A                                   G  A  G  A
   Don't ask why, we don't know...
 B
   So come alive, we're the Rolling People
 A                                   G  A  G  A  B
   Don't ask why, we just know...
 
 
 
 (solo 2)   - Played very clean
 
 E|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
 B|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
 G|-------------7---------------------|----------7h4----------------|
 D|-----------------9---7h4-----------|--------------7h4------------|
 A|--------------------------7--5-----|---------------------7-------|
 E|--------------------------------7--|------------------------7----|
 
 E|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
 B|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
 G|-------------7-------------7-------|----------7h4----------------|
 D|-----------------9-----7h9---------|--------------7h4------------|
 A|--------------------7h9------------|---------------------7-------|
 E|-----------------------------------|------------------------7----|
 
   Play and repeat the 2nd line a few times..
 
 
 *And the rest of the lyrics*:
 
 Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
 plays echoey notes in the B scale.
 E|-----------------------------------|
 B|---10-10-10---9b(10)---7-----------|
 G|--------------------------9h7------|
 
 Tell me do you know which way I'm gonna choose..
 The lights are white and I am feelin' blue..
 I hope you know which way I'm gonna fly..
 Thank you for my life, I said good night, goodbye...
 
 Back to the riff, and the song gets out of control.
 
 The "eep" part at the end of the song:
 
    EEP, EEP             eep, eep
 E|--11-------11-------|--7--------7--------|
 B|--14b(16)--14b(16)--|--10b(12)--10(12)---|
 G|--------------------|--------------------|
 
 
 Best of luck.. This song kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
 and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
 I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
 laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
 can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!
 
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