Hewerdine Boo

Hewerdine Boo - Medicine guitar chord

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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:13:13 +0000

From: Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk

/h/boo_hewerdine/medicine.crd

Hewerdine/Reader/Borowiecki. Played live by Boo Hewerdine but not

recorded by him yet. It's on Eddi Reader's Candyfloss and Medicine album.

[intro & first part of verse]:

       E                        e  B                      e

e -||----------------------------------------------------------

B -||--12----12--12--12---12-------7------7--7---7---7---------

G -||.-13----13--13--13---13-------8------8--8---8---8---------

D -||.-14----14--14--14---14-------9------9--9---9---9---------

A -||--14----14--14--14---14-------9------9--9---9---9---------

E -||--12----12--12--12---12----0--7------7--7---7---7----0----

beats  ^             ^             ^             ^

     A                       a   B                       e

e ----------------------------------------------------------||-

B ---5------5---5--5----5--------7------7--7---7----7-------||-

G ---6------6---6--6----6--------8------8--8---8----8------.||-

D ---7------7---7--7----7--------9------9--9---9----9------.||-

A ---7------7---7--7----7--------9------9--9---9----9-------||-

E ---5------5---5--5----5----5-/-7------7--7---7----7----0--||-

     ^             ^             ^             ^

e E                     e    B

   did you fall out of your family tree

e A               a  B

   here's a kiss to mend your knee

           A                   B          E(0)    A B

everybody needs some kind of medicine sometimes

e E              e    B

   how long did you think you'd last

e A                            a  B

   with your sleeping pills and laughing gas

            A                  B          E(0)

everybody needs some kind of medicine sometimes

[bridge]:

F#m

throw your hats at the moon in georges square,

F#m [sl.up] A                  A G#m F#m

was  that  ever us

F#m

climbing walls giving names to the stars

A                B

was that ever us

e E              e B

   and if you come home with me,

e A                          a  B

   I'll slip a little something in your tea

           A                  B          E(0)

everybody needs some kind of medicine sometimes

[bridge]

e E                       e B

  you've been hanging out in casualty

e A                   a B

  for shooting too much mercury

           A                  B          E(0)     B  A

everybody needs some kind of medicine sometimes

e E               e   B

  oh and if you come home with me,

e A                      a  B

  I'll score for you if you score for me

            A                  B          E(0)

everybody needs some kind of medicine sometimes

chords :

E  A  D  G  B  e

12 14 14 13 12 12  -  E

7  9  9  8  7  7  -  B

5  7  7  6  5  5  -  A

0  2  2  1  0  0  -  E(0)

2  4  4  2  2  2  -  F#m

4  6  6  4  4  4  -  G#m

[sl.up] is slide up from F#m to A

This arrangement is quite different from Eddi Reader's album version, but

it sounds roughly like how a guitar arrangement of this song should do.

Improvements welcome.

Nic

Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk

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