Tablature down in front - John Hiatt

          



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  From marten@sky.net Sun May  4 10:24:25 1997

  Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 08:55:40 -0700

  From: Otto Marten <marten@sky.net>

  Reply-To: mail.sky.net@sky.net

  To: guitar@olga.net

  Subject: CRD: John Hiatt - Down In Front

  

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  Down In Front

  John Hiatt / Two Bit Monsters 1980

  

  John in G

  Notated in 2 (measure gets 2 beats)

  

    1             5

  I spend so much time tryin^Ò

     1              4

  To learn all your languages

  1       5          2-    2-

    I got nothin^Ò to say

           1             5

  It^Òs all cheap talk in kind 

        4         1      

  And a matter of time

  5          5         5    5

    Some fool gets his way

  1           5             1          4

  Down on his knees he says I got this feelin^Ò

       1            5          2-     2-

  That you^Òre not that kind of girl

      6-           6-           4              4

  And no one knows better as he takes off your sweater

  b7           4               5                5

  Just what he means when he^Òs promised you the world

  

  |1*   2*|3*    6- |6- 5 |5

   Down in front

        |1*  2*   3*    repeat

  That^Òs all they want

      |1*  2*     3*

  Just two square inches

         4        4        /  /

  He^Òs a snake in britches

  

  Shakin^Ò your head as you lie with the enemy

  So much louder than words

  All that you felt one more notch in his belt

  Well have you heard

  You got no heart for these bullets he^Òs loaded with

  They just lite up the sky

  And who needs a hero when it^Òs zero to zero

  I don^Òt know baby it^Òs just an alibi

  

  CHORUS

  

  @

  |6-  /     5 |6- 6- 5   |

   You could be an-y- one

  |6-  /     5 |6-   5    5   |1    |4 |1 |4 5 |

   Who can^Òt be both-ered with names

  |6-   /   5  |6-    6-   5   |

   Turn off the lites turn the 

  |6-    /    5   |6-   5  5  |2-   |2- |5 |5 |

   latch it^Òs just more of the same

  

  CHORUS

  

  @ triplets, 3 beats per measure of 2 beats duration

  * play the low dom5 interval (in E=e & b) on bottom

    2 strings

    

  Number System:  Key Scale Notes (example in key of C)

   1=C  2=D  3=E  4=F  5=G  6=A  7=B  9=D  ETC.

       b2=Db     #4=F#          b7=Bb

  These hold true for BASS NOTES [ 2-/5 = D-/G ]

  

  Duration Notation:

  | = bar line; within bar lines chords divide measure

  No bar line = chord gets entire measure's time

   / = play same as previous chord, beat or measure

  

  transcribed by OtMan (Otto Marten) marten@sky.net

   


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 Down in front, de John hiatt 

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