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From: "Mike Castle" <michael.castle@btinternet.com>
Subject: b/beautiful_south/rotterdam_or_anywhere.crd
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:10:12 -0000

   Song - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)
   Artist - Beautiful South
   Album - Blue is the Colour
  
   Tabbed by Mike Castle (michael.castle@btinternet.com)
 

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   Define chords;

    Fmaj7  G   Am   C/G   C   G7   D/F   E   E7

-e----0----3----0----0----0----1----2----0----0
-B----1----0----1----1----1----0----3----0----3
-G----2----0----2----0----0----0----2----1----1
-D----3----0----2----2----2----0----0----2----2
-A----3----2----0----3----3----2----0----2----2
-E----x----3----x----3----x----3----2(T)-0----0
=20
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=20
   Define playing styles;

Style 1: - Strummed chords - each beat is a triplet.
           Play Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de=20

Style 2: - Each beat is a triplet (except the half-beats
           shown on the tab at *).  The slide is played
           with 3rd finger barred across e and B strings

Beat:  1     2     3     4     1     2     3     4

       Fmaj7

-e-----------3/5-0-----0-----------------------0-------|
-B-----------3/5-1-----1----------0------1-----1-------|
-G---------------2-----2-----0----0------2-----2-----0-|
-D---------------3-----3-3---------------3-----3-3-----|
-A-----3-----------------------3-----------------------|
-E-----------------------------------------------------|
                                  |
                                  * on the half-beat

Style 3 (at end of chorus)

Beat:  1     2     3     4     1     2     3     4

       G7
     a-lone---------                       Anywhere a-

                              $ quarter bend up with 4th
                              | finger
-e-----1-----1--1-----------------------------3--------|
-B-----0-----0--0--------------------0-----3-----------|
-G-----0-----0--0--------0---3b------------------------|
-D-----0-----0--0--------------------------------------|
-A-----2-----2--2--------------------------------------|
-E-----3-----3--3--------------------------------------|
                |                             |
                * half beat                   * half beat
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INTRO:

Style 2 Fmaj7 twice, solo guitar. Bass and percussion come
in 3rd time through, repeat a 4th time

VERSE 1:

Keep playing Style 2 Fmaj7 through 1st verse a total of
4 times

BRIDGE:

Style 1

    G
The whole place ....

                Am
The people..... sure

    G
And no-one.....

          C                  E     E7
Than they ever would do in a jar----

CHORUS:

Style 1

This could be

Am           C/G
Rotterdam or anywhere

Am           C/G
Liverpool or Rome, Cause

Am           C/G
Rotterdam is anywhere

D          G7 (Style 3)
Anywhere a-lone, Anywhere a-

Style 2 Fmaj7 twice

-lone

VERSE 2

Same as VERSE 1

BRIDGE

Same as before

CHORUS

Same again

Style 2 Fmaj7 four times, then straight into:

BRIDGE

Same as before

CHORUS/CHORUS (don't do the fiddly bit, just segue=20
               into the chorus again from the G7 -=20
               listen to the track - you'll see it!)

Style 2 Fmaj7 lots of times, singing the words of the
chorus in a jazzy style to fade out...