The Who - Helpless Dancer guitar tab
Helpless Dancer By The Who >From Quadrophenia, 1973 Written by Pete Townshend ©1973 Fabulous Music Ltd. ============== transcribed by litgo@aol.com ============== acoustic voicings: piano arr for gtr: E 022400 E5 07xxxx Asus2 x02200 E/D 05xxxx D x00232 Asus2 002xxx Am x02210 E 0799xx Am 5775xx D x577xx C 032xxx [intro; horn and piano arr for gtr] |E5 | | |E/D | | | | |----|----|---------|7---|----|----|---------|7---| |----|----|9-7-9-10-|----|----|----|9-7-9-10-|----| |----|----|---------|----|----|----|---------|----| |----|----|---------|----|----|----|---------|----| |----|----|---------|----|----|----|---------|----| |----|----|---------|----|----|----|---------|----| [acoustic gtr in] |Asus2| | | |E5 |E5 |E5 |E5 | |-----|----|---------|7---|----|----|----|----| |-----|----|9-7-9-10-|----|----|----|----|----| |-----|----|---------|----|----|----|----|----| |-----|----|---------|----|----|----|----|----| |-----|----|---------|----|----|----|----|----| |-----|----|---------|----|----|----|----|----| [acoustic out] |E E |E E | |E E |Am D |E When a man is running from his boss who holds a gun that fires "cost" E |Am D |E And people die from being old or left alone because they're cold E | And bombs are dropped on fighting Am |D |E cats and children's dreams are run with rats E |Am D |(E) If you complain you disappear just like the lesbians and queers |E E |Am D |E E |Am D (E)| [acoustic in] |E E E E E |Am Am D |E No one can love without the grace of some unseen and distant face E E E E |Am Am D |E And you get beaten up by blacks who though they work still got the sack E E E E |Am Am D E|E And when your soul tells you to hide your very right to die's denied E E E E |Am Am D E|E And in the battle on the streets you fight computers and receipts E E E E |Am Am D E |E And when a man is trying to change it only causes further pain [acoustic out] E E E E|Am Am D D |D | | You realize that all along something in us going wrong [outro; piano & horn pattern arr for gtr] |E5 | | | |E/D | | | | |----|----|---------|7---|---------|7---|----|----| |----|----|9-7-9-10-|----|9-7-9-10-|----|----|----| |----|----|---------|----|---------|----|----|----| |----|----|---------|----|---------|----|----|----| |----|----|---------|----|---------|----|----|----| |----|----|---------|----|---------|----|----|----| |C | |C | | | |---------|7---|----|----------|7---| |8-7-8-10-|----|----|-8-7-8-10-|----| |---------|----|----|----------|----| |---------|----|----|----------|----| |---------|----|----|----------|----| |---------|----|----|----------|----| [acoustic in] |Asus2| | |Asus2 |E You stop dancing |-----|----|---------|7------------|---------- |-----|----|8-7-8-10-|-------------|---------- |-----|----|---------|-------------|---------- |-----|----|---------|-------------|---------- |-----|----|---------|-------------|---------- |-----|----|---------|-------------|---------- ============= litgo@aol.com
