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Type O Negative - Pictures Of Matchstick Men (w Ozzy) guitar tab

"Pictures of Matchstick Men"

>From the Howard Stern/Private Parts Soundtrack

Tabbed by Raza Mahmood

Tune guitars 2.5 steps below standard:

low to high B, E, A, D, F#, B

(Keyboard/clean guitar with chorus and delay)

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(Guitar volume swells in bkgrnd)

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(Heavy distortion with slight chorus)

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"OOH" "AH" (2 times)

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"When I look up to the sky I see your eyes in a funny kind of

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Yellow..." (6 times)

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"OOH" "AH" (2 times)

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"Pictures of matchstick men and you..." (3 times)

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Bkgrnd guitar...Kenny's just bending the note up and down 1 step

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"Windows... ...yeah they go"

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"...alone Oh no!"

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"...Lie you win the sky, you win the sky you make me cry

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you..." (3 times)

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"I can see the matchstick men" (end bkgd guitar...til fade)

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