Tab Taken From MyGuitarTabs.com
Stephanie's For L.A.
Music/Lyrics by Tim Bluhm
From the album "Back to the Grotto" (1992)
Tablature by Collin Spencer
Tab Symbols:
b = bend up (number after the b represents the target note)
r = release bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
For a guide to text-file tab notation, check out this URL:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab-notation.txt
Chord fingerings/shapes are at the end
[Intro Riff]
Guitar 1
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-----2---2-------2---2------2---2-----------------|
|---------------------------------------0-0-0-0----|
|-2-2---2-----2-2---2----2-2---2----2-2------------|
[Just keep repeating this under the lead riff]
Guitar 2 (lead riff)
|----------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19---|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
Repeat once, then the third time:
|------------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19-----|-14h17------14h17------|--\11---------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------|-----------------------|--------------|
[Then the bridge right before the lyrics start]:
(D7) (A)
|---------------------------------------|--5--|
|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7h8-8-8-8p7--7-5---------|--5--|
|-------------------------------7-7h9---|--6--|(A barre)
|---------------------------------------|--7--|
|---------------------------------------|--7--|
|---------------------------------------|--5--|
[Note: In some of the verses, the D7 alternates up to a D7sus4 (just add your
pinky to the 3rd fret on the high E string from a D7 chord)]
D7
And what about my tailor my slowly mending lover
A
She sews me clothes I could not bear to wait
D7
My hands are locusts at her work, a green and fitting coat
A
Made upon the only honest loom
D7
I remember last night's nightmare, my hand was in the road
A G
The victim of some misdirected thresher
A G#m (arpeggio)
We would run towards the sun
F# A E
Driving towards the city of the angels
Fill 1
|------------------|
|------------------|
|-(0h1-1)-1-1-2-4--| (0h1-1 is guitar 1, the rest is guitar 2)
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
A G#m
She would know of places we could go
F# A E
To escape the homicide investigation men
Bm E
And we're weaving through the traffic in the
Dadd9 A
Shuttle-through-the-loom way
Bm E
We'll mix our drinks with water that's from
Dadd9 A
Very far away
Bm E
And we'll toast to every earthquake rolling
Dadd9 A
Underneath the bay
Bm E Dadd9
And we'll pardon every public servant's heavy cane, ohhh
(They'll never know my name)
A Asus4
Stephanie lives there, Stephanie lives there
A Asus4
Stephanie lives there, Stephanie lives there
A D
Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, oh.....
[Variation on Intro Riff]
|----------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19---|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|----------|-----------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-17b19--17b19--17b19--17b19r17--|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-------------------|--------14---------14--|--------------|
|--17b19r17b19-(3x)-|-14h17------14h17------|--17b19r17----|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-12b14--12b14--11b13--10b12r10---7--|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
D7 (hold)
So I've committed murder like a crazed and angered dope
A
She's helped me plan a stunning getaway
D7
And when the lynch mob came and we escaped the heat
A
And went dancing at the local cabaret
D7
We left those lawmen standing with thirteen yards of rope
A
They'll never see me swinging from a palm tree
D7
She'll be sure to keep me safe here, entangled in her arms
A G
Cuz I'm for her but Stephanie's for L.A., ohhhh
(*)
Stephanie's for L.A. (repeat several times)
[(*)Note: The vocals are staggered here. Chords alternate between
A and G, just listen to the song to hear it]
A G
Aaaah, And I would like to board the skybird....
[Interlude---play 4x]
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|------2-----3-----2-----3------2-----3-----2-----3-----2-|
|--0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2----0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2---0h2---|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|
|--4-2------------|-2h4p2-----------2--|
|------4-2--------|-------4--2--2h4----|
|----------4-2-0--|--------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|
A G#m
From the ground, from the ground
D A
Stephanie's for L.A.
(G) (A) (G) (A)
|------------|--5h7p5----------|
|------------|--------7-7------|
|------------|-------------6---|
|------------|-----------------|
|--5-4-5--7--|-----------------|
|------------|-----------------|
Chords:
A [002220]
A [577655] (barre)
E [022100]
Bm [224432]
D7 [x00212]
D7sus4 [x00213]
G#m [466444]
Dadd9 [x00230]
D [x00232]
Asus4 [002230]
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