Tablature criminal - Fiona Apple

          



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  Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 13:06:48 -0800

  From: Jake <Jakester@centuryinter.net>

  Subject: update to Criminal by Fiona Apple

  

  

  I saw my transcription of Criminal by Fiona Apple on OLGA (it was my

  first submission, so I was excited to see it) and realized I left a

  chord out.  Here's the updated version.  People at OLGA: please replace

  my last submission with this one.  Thanks.

  

  Song:   Criminal

  Artist: Fiona Apple

  Transcription by Jake Schneider

  

  Since this song has no recognizable guitar stuff, I decided to make my

  own arrangement for guitar.  Send comments/suggestions to:

  jakester@centuryinter.net

  There may be one discrepancy (I'm aware of it) in re: to the Cm

  pentatonic bass groove being played and the guitar playing a C7 over top

  of it.  I tried playing a Cm/Cm7 chord but the C7 sounded better to me.

  

  CRIMINAL                          FIONA APPLE

  

  [C minor pentatonic bass groove] x 8    Guitar: C7

  

  I've been a bad bad girl        

  I've been careless with a delicate man

  And it's a sad sad world

  When a girl will break a boy

  Just because she can

  

  Don't you tell me to deny it

  I've done wrong and I want to

  Suffer for my sins

  I've come to you ^Ñcause I need

  Guidance to be true

  And I just don't know where I can begin

  

  What I need is a good defense

  ^Ñcause I'm feelin' like a criminal

  And I need to be redeemed

  To the one I've sinned against

  Because he's all I ever knew of love 

  

  Heaven help me for the way I am 

  save me from these evil deeds

  Before I get them done

  I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand

  But I keep livin' this day like the next one will never come

  

  Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it

  I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies ^Ñtil I'm good enough for

  him 

  I've got a lot to lose and I'm bettin' high

  So I'm beggin' you before it ends

  Just tell me where to begin

  

  chorus x1  

  

  [C minor pentatonic bass groove] x 4    Guitar: C7

  

  Let me know the way before there's hell to pay

  Give me room to lay the law and let me go

  I've got to make a play to make my lover stay

  So what would an angel say

  The devil wants to know

  

  chorus x2

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  Verses: [Am   F7] x4   

          [C7   Bb7   F7] x1

          [C7   Bb7 Am] x1

          [C7   Bb7   Ab7   G7   F7   Ab7]

  

  Chorus: [F7   C7] x2

          [F7   C7    Bb7   Ab7   G7   F7]

  

  Bridge: [D#7   B7   Ab7   B7   D#7   B7   Ab7] x2

  

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  footnote: I tried this version out with my band (we're a 3-piece: drums,

  bass, & guitar-with a chick singer) and it worked out well!  I think if

  a band did this number "Unplugged" it would come across very 'cool' to

  the audience.

  

  -- 

  			    

   


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