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Article: 1640 of alt.guitar.tab
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From: shotokan@diku.dk (Kim H|glund)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.211347.2281@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:13:47 GMT
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Sender: shotokan@sif.diku.dk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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I`ve never heard the original version of Oh, Pretty Woman (I know, it`s a
serious lapse in my general education ;-) I guess, however, that the cover
version done some years ago by Van Halen uses the same simple & powerfull
main riff, chords etc., right? It goes something like this:
Intro:
+--- let this note ring for 1 1/2 measure
v________________________
/
e -----------------|-----------------|
B -----------------|-----------------|
G -----------------|-----------------| repeat both measures
D ---------0-------|-----------------|
A -2-2---2---------|-----------------|
E -0-0-4-----------|-----------------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
and then over to the main riff which is just the following, usually repeated
4 times:
e -----------------
B -----------------
G -----------------
D ---------0-4-2-0-
A -2-2---2---------
E -0-0-4-----------
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
A Fm
Pretty woman walking down the street,
A Fm
Pretty woman, the kind I`d like to meet.
D D
Pretty woman...
E7 E7
I don`t believe you -- it must be true.
E7 E7 (repeat main riff 4 times)
No one could look as good as you.
Pretty woman, won`t you pardon me.
Pretty woman, I couldn`t help but see.
Pretty woman...
Oh, you look lovely as you can be.
Are you lonely just like me?
Dm7 G
Pretty woman, stop awhile.
C C/B Am Am
Pretty woman, talk awhile.
Dm7 G C C
Pretty woman, give your smile to me.
Dm7 G
Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah,
C C/B Am Am
Pretty woman, look my way.
Dm7 G C A
Pretty woman, say you`ll stay with me,
Fm D E7 (repeat main riff 4 times)
`Cause I need you, need you tonight.
Pretty woman, don`t walk on by.
Pretty woman, don`t make me cry.
Pretty woman...
Don`t walk away, hey.
Okay.
If that`s the way it must be, okay.
I guess I`ll go on home, it`s late.
There`ll be tomorrow night, but wait
What do I see?
She`s walking back to me.
Oh, pretty woman.
Disclaimer:
I haven`t heard the record for some time. I`m pretty sure E.v.H. adds
various fills (harmonics, dives, trills etc.) from time to time. Anyway,
you should have gotten the main idea -- now go and add your own original
stuff ;-)
Enjoy,
Kim
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Kim H|glund, shotokan@diku.dk, CS Dept. at U of Copenhagen, Denmark
I`ve got plenty of common sense. I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
