Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix - A Mermaid I Should Turn To Be guitar tab

1983.... A merman I should turn to be

By Jimi Hendrix

From "Electric Ladyland" - 1968

Tune 1/2 step down (for the real album version).

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Verse:

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Hooray I awake from yesterday, a-

C#m7

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live but the war is here to stay

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So my love Catherina and me decide to

Bm7

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take our last walk thru the noise to the sea

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Not to die but to be re-born........a-

Asus4

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way from the lands so battered and torn...

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-ever....................................

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for-....

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ever..............

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The rest:

Just repeat the above verse again, using arpeggios and "Hendresque"

variations (i.e., hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs). Then he uses chords

for the rest of the song...they are...

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