Tab Taken From MyGuitarTabs.com
Such a Thing
By The Mother Hips
Music/lyrics by Tim Bluhm
From the album "Green Hills of Earth" (2001)
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
Riff 1 (Sitar effect)
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|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|-------3--4--6----------|
|---4--5-----------------5--|-4--5-------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3--4--|-6--4--3--5--4b6r4~-----|
|---4--5--------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|-------3--4--6----------|
|---4--5-----------------5--|-4--5-------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3--4--|-6--4--3--5--4~---------|
|---4--5--------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
[Verse]
(Guitars lay out on the first verse)
A B F# A B F# F#/E F#
So you've been confused, your confidence is disorganized
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|-----------|
|-----------|
|-----------|
|-----------|
|-0-0-0-2\--|
A B F# A B
So you do your exercise as you speed beneath the
F# F#/E
bay...
[Riff 2] (Sitar)
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|-2-2-2-2-0----0-|-2-2-2-2-0----0-|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----4--2--2-----|----4--2--2-----|
|-2------------0-|-2--------------|
A B F# A B F#
And I would tell you to sing, cause that would bring control to you,
A B F#
Some things make the world seem new,
(Guitars come back in here)
A B
Your voice is such a
F# F#/E F# F#/E F# F#/E F#
thing, such a thing, such a thing, such a thing...
[**Note: Alternating F# and F#/E:
Just do an F# barre chord (don't play the top 2 strings),
and alternately lift off your index finger.
Like this:
F# F#/E
|-(2)---(0)---------------|
|-(2)---(0)---------------|
|--3-----3----------------|
|--4-----4----------------|
|--4-----4----------------|
|--2-----0----------------|
This alternating theme is heard pretty consistently throughout the song,
whenever an F# chord is played. Listen and you'll hear it. Back to the
song...]
[Bridge 1]
(*)
A A B B | F# F# F#/E F# |
1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 & 4 | (3X)
---------------------
(*) Background fill:
The sitar plays a little background riff during this measure.
The first and third time Bridge 1 is played use this fill:
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|
|---4--5-----------------4--|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
Second time:
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|--4b6r4-2--4-4-4-4-4p2-----|
|-----------------------4---|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
Then on the fourth time:
HEY! HEY!
A A B B | right into-->
1 2 3 4
Bridge 2:
F# F# F#/E F#/E
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | (4X)
^ ^ ^ ^
A B F# A B F# F#/E F#
You didn't want to break the news but it didn't cut your tongue,
(Guitar)
|------------------------|
|--4b5r4-2-0-------------|
|------------3-2-3-------|
|------------------2~~---|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
A B F# A B
Omar is still so young, I know that he can take it,
[Play Bridge 2 (see below) 4x over the "take it" part]
Take it, take it, (I know that he can) take it, take it...
Bridge 2:
F# F# F#/E F#/E
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
^ ^ ^ ^
A B F# A B F# F#/E F#
"I don't want to be rude," you told him at the turnstile
A B F# F#/E F# A B
His teeth went dust behind his smile, you disappeared down the
F# F#/E F# F#/E F# F#/E F#
tube, down the tube, down the tube, down the tuuuuube!
Play Bridge 1:
A A B B | F# F# F#/E F# |
1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 & 4 | (3X)
Aaaaah!
A A B B |
1 2 3 4
Now play Riff 1 again, with a slight variation:
Riff 1b (Sitar)
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|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|-------3--4--6----------|
|---4--5-----------------5--|-4--5-------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3--4--|-6--4--3--5--4b6r4------|
|---4--5--------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|-------3--4--6----------|
|---4--5-----------------5--|-4--5-------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|-------------------------|
|---------------2--3--2--5--|-3-2---------------------|
|---------3--4--------------|-----4b6r4-2-------------|
|---4--5--------------------|-------------4-4~--------|
|---------------------------|-------------------------|
|---------------------------|-------------------------|
(Guitars lay out)
A B F# A B
So your ship was blown to sea, from the road where it was tied up
[Guitar Fill]
|------------|
|------------|
|-4b6--(8x)--|
|------------|
|------------|
|------------|
A B F# F#/E F#
So many men have died up on the
(Guitars come back in)
A B
route to Ha-na-
F# F#/E F# F#/E F# F#/E F#
Lei, Hana- lei, Hana- lei, Hana- lei......
Then Bridge 1 over the final "aaaah's":
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
A A B B | F# F# F#/E F# | (3X)
Aaaaaah!
A A B B |
[Then the last 2 measures are]:
^ ^ ^
F# F# F#/E F#/E F# F# F# F#
|---------------------------|-------2--2--2---||
|---------------------------|-------2--2--2---||
|---------3--4--6--4--3-----|-------3--3--3---||
|---4--5-----------------5--|--4----4--4--4---||
|---------------------------|-------4--4--4---||
|---------------------------|-------2--2--2---||
Chord Shapes:
A [002220]
B [224442]
F# [244322]
F#/E [0443xx]
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