Tablature this island life - Violent Femmes

          



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  Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:24:23 -0500

  From: Bryson Meunier <meunier.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>

  Subject: TAB:"This Island Life" by "Violent Femmes"

  

                 "THIS ISLAND LIFE" by the Violent Femmes

  

  >From the album "NEW TIMES"(1994)

  Written by Gordon Gano

  Transcribed by Bryson Meunier

  

          Here's a pretty cool song off of "New Times." It should be right but

  if it's not(or if you just have additions, comments or questions) e-mail me

  at meunier.1@osu.edu

  

  intro(clean electric)-

                B5 (palm mute)

   E-----------------------------|

   B-----------------------------|

   G-----------------------------|

   D------------4--4--4--4-------|  (strum quietly)

   A-----0---2--2--2--2--2-------|

   E-----------------------------|

  

          A lot of the verse just sounds like straight bass. The guitar

  pattern that I could decipher sounds like this:

  verse-

   "This tea is too strong for me..."

   E----------------------------------------------|

   B----------------------------------------------|

   G----------------------------------------------|

   D-----------------4---4---45---4----2----4----|

   A----0---2----2--------------------------------|

   E----------------------------------------------|

  

  

  

  repeat that a couple of times and then go into this:

  

   E-----------------------------------------------|

   B-----------------------------------------------|

   G-----------------------------------------------|

   D--------------9--9--910---9---7---9-----------|

   A----0--7--7------------------------------------|

   E-----------------------------------------------|

  

  The chorus is just an A chord followed by a B5

    "This Island Life..."

        A                      B5

   E-----------------------------------------------|

   B----2------------------------------------------|

   G----2-----(strum)----------4-------------------|

   D----2----------------------4-------------------|

   A---------------------------2-------------------|

   E-----------------------------------------------|

  

  The overdub part of the solo sounds like this: 

   E----------------------------------------------------|

   B--7~~~~~~~----8p7~~~~~~~------7p0-------------------|

   G-------------------------7h9---------------7--------|

   D--------------------------------------7h9------(9)--|

   A----------------------------------------------------|

   E----------------------------------------------------|

   

   

   E----------------------------------------------------|

   B--------------------------------7--78----7--7--78-|

   G---------------7-------8--------7--78----7--7--78-|

   D---------7h9-------9--------------------------------|

   A---7h9----------------------------------------------|

   E----------------------------------------------------|

  

   E--0--0--0-------9h10----7h9p7----5h7p5-------------|

   B--5--8--7--------------------------------7---------|

   G---------------------------------------------7---4-|

   D---------------------------------------------------|

   A---------------------------------------------------|

   E---------------------------------------------------|

   

   lyrics:

  

     This tea's too strong for me

     As I await yoir company

     I had too much sun today

     Ocean waters wash away

     Nothing but the present

     Presenting its presence

   

     This island life

     Separate my right from my wrong

  

     No I am not pagan 

     but my heart has been forsaken

     And the hand of God was on my mind

     It took some time from time to time

     Now in the course I know

     Time itself will go when

     

     (chorus)

   

     You forgot your shoes and I 

     I have sent a message but I 

     There's so many stars in the sky

     It's the truths that will not lie

     There's a young wild native maiden

     Running mad and barefoot to the sea until

  

     (chorus)

  

     This island life 

     Finally separates my right from my wrong

  

     (guitar solo) 

   

     This tea's too strong for me

     As I await more company

     I had too much sun today

     Dream of lands lying far away

     Pregnant with the present

     Presenting its presents

      

     This island life

     Separate my right from my wrong

     This island life 

     Will separate my rights from my songs

     Separate my right from wrong

  

     (electric sitar outro)

  

  

   


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 This island life, de Violent femmes 

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