Jewel - Foolish Games guitar tab
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Subject: TAB: 'Foolish Games' by 'Jewel'
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:09:08 -0600
From: John Schneider
NOTE: this is, basically, a piano tune transcribed for acoustic guitar.
NOTE: a tab already available on the web, done by Wilson Miner
the tab provided here differs in the following respects:
1) the guitar is tuned up; (low E and A strings tuned up 1/2 step
2) the variation on the 'C' chord during the intro is different;
3) the chord progression during the chorus is different,
and has been tabbed in full.
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song: Foolish Games
artist: Jewel Kilcher
from: the CD 'Pieces of You', track 4.
(transcribed here by 'Daydreamer': schneids@centuryinter.net)
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guitar. vocal.
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[intro.]
[v.line] You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You were always crazy like that
[v.line] I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you
[v.line] You were always the mysterious one with dark eyes and careless
hair... You were fashionably sensitive, but too cool to care.
[v.line] You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say...
besides some comment on the weather
[v.line] Well in case you failed to notice; in case you failed to see..
This is my heart bleeding before you; this is me down on my knees
[c.line] These foolish games are tearing me apart
[c.line] Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
[intro.]
[v.line] You were always brilliant in the morning
Smoking your cigarettes, talking over coffee...
[v.line] Your philosophies on art, Baroque moved you, You loved Mozart
you'd speak of your loved ones As I clumsily strummed my guitar
[v.line] You'd teach me of honest things...
Things that were daring, things that were clean...
Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean
[v.line] So I hid my soiled hands behind my back,
Somewhere along the line I must've gone off track with you
[v.line] Excuse me, think I've mistaken you for somebody else
Somebody who gave a damn, Somebody more like myself
[c.line] These foolish games are tearing me apart
[c.line] Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
[intro.]
[Dm x 4]
[v.line] You took off your coat and stood in the rain
You were always like that
[repeat intro and fade...]
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Tab: (note the guitar tuning... tune 5th and 6th strings up 1/2 step to
Bb and F respectively. This makes it considerably easier to play.)
[intro]
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Dm Bb
E |---------0---1---3---1---0---1---|---------0---1---3---1---0---1---|
B |-----3---------------------------|-----3---------------------------|
G |---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-|---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-|
D |-0-------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------|-0-------------------------------|
F |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
F C
E |---------1---3---5---3---1-------|---------0---1---3---1---0-------|
B |-----1-----------------------1---|-----1-----------------------1---|
G |---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|
D |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------|-2-------------------------------|
F |-0-------------------------------|---------------------------------|
[v.line]
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Dm Bb
E |---------1---------------1-------|---------0---------------0-------|
B |-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-|-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-|
G |---2---2-----2-----2---2-----2---|---3---3-----3-----3---3-----3---|
D |-0---------------0---------------|---------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------|-0---------------0---------------|
F |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
F C
E |---------1---------------1-------|---------0---------------0-------|
B |-----1-----1---1-----1-----1---1-|-----1-----1---1-----1-----1---1-|
G |---2---2-----2-----2---2-----2---|---0---0-----0-----0---0-----0---|
D |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------|-2---------------2---------------|
F |-0---------------0---------------|---------------------------------|
[c.line]
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Bb C
E |---------0---------------0-------|---------0---------------0-------|
B |-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-|-----1-----1---1-----1-----1---1-|
G |---3---3-----3-----3---3-----3---|---0---0-----0-----0---0-----0---|
D |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Bb|-0---------------0---------------|-2---------------2---------------|
F |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
F F/Dm
E |---------1---------------1-------|---------1---------------1-------|
B |-----1-------1-------1-----1---1-|-----1-------1-------1-----1---1-|
G |---2---2---2---2---2---2-----2---|---2---2---2---2---2---2-----2---|
D |-3---------------2---------------|-0---------------0---------------|
Bb|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
F |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
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It's a fun one once you have it - vary the picking during
the verses and/or chorus to give more feel to things.
- Daydreamer (schneids@centuryinter.net)
