Elliott Smith - How to Take a Fall guitar tab
HOW TO TAKE A FALL ELLIOTT SMITH
(From 'Waltz #2 (XO)' UK single Dreamworks
DRMCD-22347 copyright 1998 skg music l.l.c.)
In C amjor, but seems to work best with
capo 3th fret; all chords notated this way.
INTRO
(mixdown of opening riff, played on two guitars)
---------1------------5-5-5-----
-0-0-0-0-0---3--3-3-1-5-5-5-b6-5
-3-3-3-3-2---2--2-2-2-----------
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A G F(sus)
F D
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-0-0-0-0---3--3-3-1-0------
-3-3-3-2---2--2-2-2---2----
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F
---------1------------5-5-5-----
-0-0-0-0-0---3--3-3-1-5-5-5-b6-5
-3-3-3-3-2---2--2-2-2-----------
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A G6
VERSE 1
E D C(9 sus4)
it's one with cover to cover
E (9) D
it's an endless fuse
F (sus4 - 9) D(9)
a chain repeating never seems to get
F(9/sus4) F Gsus4
any smarter
E etc (as above)
I'm always marking pages so,
that I don't get confused
and end up in a fight I never had
any part of
CHORUS
Fsus#4 F D
listen now you play thing
Fsus#4 F
coming over clueless
F (maj7) A G6
every time you call
Fsus#4 F D
an accident just waiting to happen
Fsus#4 F
still hasn't found out
F (maj7) A G6
how to take a fall
VERSE 2
make me a present
make it something sweet
small enough to go unnoticed, and
big enough to compete
with this massive past which keeps
blocking up my street
looking for a new contender to
disassemble
CHORUS:
listen now you play thing
coming over clueless
every time you call
an accident just waiting to happen
still hasn't found out
F (maj7) A
how to take a fall
B7
How to take a fall
(E6) Dmin
How to take a fall
Fmaj7 E6 D
oooooooooohhhhhhhh
D F A (rings thru riff):
to GUITAR RIFF and OUTRO
same as INTRO; ends on A
Tabbed by Tom Hall, Brighton UK
email tr_hall@bigfoot.com
NOTES
Not sure about first line of text (Michael on lyrics
page might be right: 'it's when we're cover to cover',
but other lines of his transcription I'd want to question.
Some of the melody is doubled by the lead guitar
(and there's the lovely piano doubling of the 'oooh'
which I haven't notated). Chord extensions in brackets
show bits of this type of doubling, most of which is
in passing only.
Less usual chords:
G6: 320000; E6: 042100; C9sus4: x33030
E9: 024100; D9: xx4232; Fsus#4: 133411
F9sus5: x35363(! if it's worth it...)
