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From: hertzberg@elwood.enet.dec.com (Marc Hertzberg (History: Love It Or Leave It))
Subject: TAB: Taxman
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:02:34 GMT
Taxman
(Harrison)
Verse:
D7 D79 D7
Let me tell you how it will be
D7 D79 D7
There`s one for you nineteen for me
C7 G79 D7
`Cos I`m the taxman Yeah I`m the taxman
Verse:
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don`t take it all
`Cos I`m the taxman Yeah I`m the taxman
Middle:
D
If you drive a truck I`ll tax the street
C
If you try to fix it I`ll tax your seat
D
If you get too cold I`ll tax the heat
C D
If you take a walk I`ll tax your feet TAXMAN!
Guitar Solo:
-|---------------------------------------------------10----------------
-|--------------------------------6--8--b(9)8--6-----------------------
-|-----7-----7-----7-----7-----7------------------7--------------------
-|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----9p8--9p8--6-----------------------------------------------------
-|--7---------------7--7--5h7p5--6--4h6p4--5--2h4p2--------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------10-------
-|-----------------------8--6-----6-----6-----6--b(9)8--6--------------
-|--2--4--5--7-----7-----------7-----7-----7---------------7-----------
-|--------------0-----0------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
C G79 D
`Cos I`m the taxman Yeah I`m the taxman
Verse:
Don`t ask me what I want it for (ah ah, Mr. Wilson)
If you don`t want to pay some more (ah ah, Mr. Heath)
`Cos I`m the taxman Yeah I`m the taxman
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-------------------5---------3--5-----5---------3--5----------------------
-|----------------------3--h5--------------3--h5-----------5---------3b(4)--
-|----------------3------------------3------------------------3--h5---------
-|------------------------------------------------------3-------------------
Verse:
Now my advice for those who die (TAXMAN!)
Declare the pennies on your eyes (TAXMAN!)
`Cos I`m the taxman Yeah I`m the taxman
And you`re working for no one but me
F D7
-|--------------------------------------------------------------
-|--------------/6-----/6-----/6-----/6-------------------------
-|------------------5------5------5------5------7---------5--7-- (repeat
-|-------------------------------------------------5--h7-------- guitar
-|-------------------------------------------5------------------ solo)
-|--------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Miscellaneous info:
C7 = (-3231-)
D7 = (-5453-)
D79 = (-5456-) or (----11)
G79 = (35-466)
Riff to repeat over first two
lines of third verse
-|------------------------------
-|------------------------------
-|-----7---------5--7-----------
-|--------5--h7-----------------
-|--5---------------------------
-|------------------------------
Riff to repeat over first two
lines of fourth verse
-|------------------------------
-|------------------8-----------
-|-----7---------5--------------
-|--------5--h7-----------------
-|--5---------------------------
-|------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tab Special Notations:
----0---- play the open string (`fret zero`)
----5---- play fret five
----5~--- play fret five with vibrato
---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---75--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7--- hammer-on to fret seven
----p5--- pull-off to fret five
---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---15--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---0h3--- play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
three
---7p5--- play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five
