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Chord/Tab for: The Painter
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(written 2005)     (notes below will be moved here eventually)

 

Chords/Tablature for
The Painter

Submitted by: Joe McElwain

Tuning: Standard (EADGBE) Notes about this song:

  • The tab below for the intro section is just a suggestion.
  • Also, there is a variation of hammer-ons around the 'C' chord in the first two lines of each verse.
  • The rest of the song is straight-forward except for the "Dadd2add4 to C1 to D1" transition in the chorus, which is as follows (sorry, I don't know the chord names, so I refer to them as C1 and D1):



 Chorus transition

   Dadd2add4       C1             D1
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|-0h3----3-----------5-5------------7-7---7---|
G|-0-0-----0-----------------------------------| 
D|-0h4--4---4---4/5-5-----5---5/7--7-----7-----|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|

The lap steel guitar part in the intro section can be 
simulated by a second guitar as follows:

Riff 1: e|-10b1r~~~~-- (b1r -> slowly bend 1 full step
                          and slowly release)
Riff 2: e|-7b1r~~~~---  


CHORDS:

Dadd2add4: x54030
C/G:	   3x2013
C1:	   xx5x5x
D9/F#:	   200210
Am7:	   x02010
D1:	   xx7x7x

INTRO (Riff 1):

   G         C/G    Dadd2add4   Am7
e|------3-----3----------------------|
B|-------0----0h1----0h3--3-----0h1--|
G|--------0---0------0-0---0----0----|
D|---0--------0h2----0h4-4--4---0h2--|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-3---------------------------------|

(Riff 2)

   G         C/G    Dadd2add4   C
e|------3-----3-----------------0--|
B|-------0----0h1----0h3--3-----1--|
G|--------0---0------0-0---0----0--|
D|---0--------0h2----0h4-4--4---2--|
A|------------------------------3--|
E|-3-------------------------------|


Verse:

G                  C
 The painter stood, before her work
G                       C
 She looked around everywhere
G                             C           Am  D9/F#  G
 She saw the pictures and she painted them 
G                               Am   F  D  G
 She picked the colors from the air      


G               C
 Green to green, red to red
G                        C
 Yellow to yellow in the light
G                        C             Am  D9/F#  G
 Black to black when the evening comes
G                    Am    F  D  G 
 Blue to blue in the night 

Intro:

Chorus:

       G    C/G   Dadd2add4  C    G    C/G Dadd2add4 C
It's a long road,               behind
       G    C/G   Dadd2add4  C   C1   D1 
It's a long road,               ahead
       Em           C                    D    D1
If you follow every dream, you might get lost
       Em           C          G       D     G
If you follow every dream, you might - get - lost  

Intro:

Verse:

G                   C
 She towed the line, she held her end up
G                        C
 She did the work of two men
G                    C         Am  D9/F#  G
 But in the end, she fell down
G                   Am    F  D  G
 Before she got up again


G                  C
 I keep my friends, eternally
G                           C
 We leave our tracks in the sound
G                 C           Am  D9/F#  G
 Some of them are with me now
G                      Am    F  D  G
 Some of them can't be found

Intro:

Chorus:

       G    C/G  Dadd2add4  C  G       C/G Dadd2add4 C
It's a long road,            behind me
      G        C/G  Dadd2add4  C1  D1
And I miss you now
       Em           C                    D    D1
If you follow every dream, you might get lost
       Em           C          G       D     G
If you follow every dream, you might - get - lost  

Intro:

Verse:

G              C
 Green to green, red to red
G                        C
 Yellow to yellow in the light
G                        C             Am  D9/F#  G
 Black to black when the evening comes
G                         Am     F  D  G
 Blue to blue through the night

Intro:

G