Dry Clothes by Annuals
Be He Me, 2006
Tabbed by Thomas Buhler
If you find any mistakes, or have any questions about this tab, email me at:
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Tuned 1/2 step down (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb). All chords and tabs relative to tuning.
Chords:
D - xx0232 (play in OUTRO as x57775)
A - x02220 (play in CHORUS as 577655)
E - 022100
B - x24442
Abmaj7 – 4776xx
F#m - 244222
D# - x68886
Db - x46664
VERSE 1:
D A E D
There's a knapsack rally for the stranger who told
D A B B B B
Of a spider, and a purple toad.
D A E D
The things I heard were wretched, and slurred.
D A B B B B
Oh, my ears would be cut off at mention.
CHORUS:
A Abmaj7 F#m
But you - don't have to cut - it off.
(I only feel like living when I feel like I'm dying.)
F A Abmaj7 F#m F F F E
Just give it some time. Your baby boy, he only naps.
SOLO: (play solo in dotted rhythm. Notes in brackets are very hard or
impossible to play [with the use of one single guitar]. Use the x’s at the
top of the tab to determine beat rhythm. I apologize for the difficulty of
reading this tab :D.)
|x x x x |x x x x |x x x x |x x x x
eb|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------------------|
Bb|--------5-------|----------------|--------5-------|----------------------------|
Gb|------6-----6---|------6-7---9---[9/0]--6-----6---|----------------------------|
Db|----7---------7-|6-7-9-----------|----7---------7-|6---4--[4h6p4]2-------------|
Ab|--5-------------|----------------|--5-------------|----------------------------|
Eb|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------------------|
|x x x x |x x x x |x x x x |x x x x |
eb|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Bb|--------5-------|----------------|--------5-------|----------------|
Gb[9/0]--6-----6---|------6-7-9-11-9[9/0]--6-----6---|----------------|
Db|----7---------7-|6-7-9-----------|----7---------7-|6---4---6---2---|
Ab|--5-------------|----------------|--5-------------|----------------|
Eb|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
VERSE 2:
D A E D
So mother bug don't you bite your tongue
D A B B B B
Because there's nothing else to do for your son.
D A E D
He rose the dead. He's been sharing his bed
D A B B B B
With the only one he never loved.
VERSE 3:
D A E D
So why should you cry for the
D A B B B B
License plate of a colder state?
D A E D
Should you talk of the son on the run,
D A B B B B
Your tongue will be ripped out by ducklings.
CHORUS:
A Abmaj7 F#m
Oh, you don't have to cut it off.
F A Abmaj7 F#m F F F E
Just give it some time. Your baby boy, he only naps.
CHORUS:
A Abmaj7 F#m
I only feel like living when I feel like I'm dying.
F A Abmaj7 F#m F F F E
Just give it some time. Your baby boy, he only naps.
VERSE 4: (play only bass note instead of chord)
D A E D
Well Missy, sure you can look through my drawers.
D A B
I've got nothing to hide. (play as chords again)
D A E D
So, crying soul don't you tally the toll because
D A B
Where’s the love in counting?
D D# Db (x1)
OUTRO:
D D D D D# Db
Dry clothes, dry clothes, dry clothes, dry clothes [x6]
End on D