Tablature things mean a lot - Red House Painters

          



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  Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:50:27 -0500

  From: "Hughes, Mike" <HughesME@bergelect.com>

  Subject: CHORDS: "Things Mean Alot" by Red House Painters

  

  

  

  Song:   Things Mean Alot

  Artist: Red House Painters

  Album:  Red House Painters (#2)

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  This arr. by Michael Hughes for solo guitar & voice

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  It would be great to correspond with some RHP fans. 

  I'm hard pressed to find a band that I enjoy this much.

  hughesme@bergelect.com    Sept '97

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  Notes:

        1.Sorry I did not take the energy to name all

  the chords (I would probably name them wrong anyway)

  There is a lot of droning going on throughout, and I

  thought this would be the easiest method to relate.

        2.This of course is not exact since I'm reducing

  it to one guitar. It does however stand up fairly well.

        3.Lyrics in parenthesis are questionable. I sing,

  "..heart's heights"

        4.Parenthesis are used with double-digit fret

  numbers for clarity.

        5.See additional performance note at end

  concerning OUTRO.

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  This is a gorgeous little bittersweet piece presented

  more as a collage than as a verse,verse,chorus,etc form.

  ENJOY!

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  3/4 time

  

  DADGAD tuning

  

  INTRO: crescendo in with repeating   xo3o3o

  

  xo3o3o   xo3ooo   xo54oo   xo5ooo   ooo2oo

  A de-    scend-   ing      climb

  

  4xxoo4                 7x7oo7

  my feet can't make the hill

  

                      x5oo5o  x4oo4o    x5oo5o

  to the top (of your heart's heights)

             (where your house hides)

  

  x3oo3o             55oo5o

  tomorrow she comes

  

                  77oo7o    88oo8o

  the one who I'd sworn and broke loyally

  

  x3oo3o            o5oo5o

  to take your place

  

         77oo7o      88(10)ooo

  in the bed next to me

  

  xo3o3o   xo3ooo    xo54oo   xo5ooo   ooo2oo

  You      threat to make     me       dead

  

                        88oo8o

  and none of this will matter

  

     77oo75   ooo2oo

  or surface again

  

  555755           ooo2oo

  It scares you to know

  

          xxoo45   7779oo

  that we won't be

  

               999(11)oo   5557oo

  watching the same        sun

  

                  999(11)oo   3335oo

  or brooding the same        thoughts

  

         999(11)oo   5557oo      999xxx

  in the same        part of the world

  

  999(11)99   777977      4446oo   222422

  Scares me   how you get older

  

              x244xxx        x355xxx

  how you for-get about each other

  

  999(11)99   777977      4446oo   222422

  Scares me   how you get older

  

              x244xxx        x355xxx

  how you for-get about each other

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  OUTRO:                                     

  888(10)oo                                  |

  Things mean a lot at the time              |

                                             |

  2o2ooo             2o2o4o                  |

  don't mean nothing later                   |

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  888(10)oo                5554ooo   555oo4  |

  things mean a lot at the time              |

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  repeat outro 6 times, end with 888(10)oo

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  OUTRO performance note:

  I like to pull off the highest fretted note

  of the 888(10)ooo, 2o2o4o, and 555oo4 chords

  on the upbeat of 2 just prior to moving to the

  next chord and allow the open pulled-off note

  to ring thru the next chord

   


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 Things mean a lot, de Red house painters 

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