Van Zandt Townes - Snake Song guitar tab

Submitted by Rainer Fischer

Dm F Dm

You can't hold me

Dm C Dm

I'm too slippery

Dm F Dm

I do no sleepin'

Dm C Dm

I get lonely

Dm F G

you can touch me

G F Dm

if you want to

Dm F Dm

I got poison

Dm C Dm

I just might bite you

Lie in circles

on the sunlight

shine like diamonds

on a dark night

ain't no mercy

in my smilin'

only fangs and

sweet beguiling

Future, he don't

try to find me

skin I been through

dies behind me

solid hollow

wrapped in hatred

not a drop of

venom wasted

You can slip in

try to find me

hold your breath and

flat deny me

it makes no difference

to my thinkin'

I'll be here when

you start sinkin'

I found it convenient to play with a capo in the 5th fret so I actually play Am C Am Am G Am

and

so on. In the beginning of a line I strum the empty strings and then 'hammer on' the three

fingers

for the Am. The Fs and Cs are quickly sqeezed in between the other chords. It's hard to

say how

really to play it, it has to be felt (that's what I tell my band members on every occasion..).

It

should by avoided to play the high strings, at least not too often or too loud, especially

at the Cs

and Fs (This also makes it easier for the left hand). In between the verses I play a line

of bass

notes:

d f b(hammer on->)c e d (maybe ...f d).

I also would like to add the bass line introducing 'Fare thee well Miss Carousel'.

Probably invented by the bass player but I like it very much.

b e / (e) f# g# / g# a g# f#/ f# g# e -> E-chord.

Maybe the last bar is just f# f# f#.

And never ask me for a correct notation of the rhythm... RF