Tablature beat the retreat - Richard Thompson

          



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  BEAT THE RETREAT

  

  by Richard Thompson

  from Pour Down Like Silver or Disk B of Watching the Dark

  

  Chorded by Jay Verkuilen (jayv@uiuc.edu).  Comments, corrections, etc., 

  welcome.  

  

  Lyrics gotten from the OLGA file "pour_down_like_silver_album.crd"   

  

  The song is in C mixolydian (C-D-D-F-G-A-Bb), but sometimes a B shows up.  

  I haven't bothered to TAB it out since it really wouldn't help with the whole

  feel of the song, and is kind of against Richard's whole philosophy anyway--

  he doesn't play anything the same way twice.  It's better to improvise within

  the feel of the song, which is slow, solemn, and bluesy, than to learn exactly

  what he plays.  He said exactly that on his Homespun Lesson Tape, so I don't  

  feel this is a stretch of logic!    

  _____________________________________________________________________________   

  

  Tuning:  CGDGBE, low to high

  

  Chords are:

  

  C:  o-o-2-o-1-0

  Cadd4:  o-o-3-o-1-o

  G5:  x-o-o-o-3-3

  a:  x-2-2-2-1-o 

  

  

  C    Cadd4                    G5

  Beat my retreat, back home to you

  

  C    Cadd4                    G5

  Beat my retreat, back home to you

  

  a                  C

  I'm burning all my bridges

  

  a                  C

  I'm burning all my bridges

  

  a                  C

  I'm burning all my bridges

  

  G5                    C  Cadd4             

  I'm running back home to you

  

  

  

  Trailing my colours, back home to you

  Trailing my colours, back home to you

  This world is filled with sadness

  This world is filled with sadness

  This world is filled with sadness

  I'm running back home to you

  

  

  [instrumental over same chords as verse] 

  

  

  Follow the drum, back home to you

  Follow the drum, back home to you

  There was no sense in my leaving

  There was no sense in my leaving

  There was no sense in my leaving

  I'm running back home to you

   

   

  

  You can play the song quite adequately in standard, but you won't get 

  the same bass feel.  Also, Richard frequently plays octave bass runs like:

  

  E_______________________________

  B_______________________________

  G___0___2-sl-3-sl-2_____________

  D_______________________________

  G___0___2-sl-3-sl-2_____________

  C_______________________________

  

  These are _much_ easier when you have the octave G strings as open, since 

  you can damp out the B string more easily.  (Actually, I was led to using this

  tuning because I heard these, tried to play them in standard, and was 

  disappointed. :)

      

  -- 

  Jay Verkuilen                                            jayv@uiuc.edu

  

  "A human society without conflict would be a society not of friends, but of 

  ants." 	--Sir Karl Popper, _Unended Quest_    

  

   


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