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From: "Don Shiner" <dms367@psu.edu>
Subject: c/clutch/open_up_the_border.tab
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 03:17:29 -0800

Open Up the Border
written and performed by Clutch
from the album "Pure Rock Fury"
transcribed by Don Shiner
email:  dms367_1@hotmail.com

symbols:
/ =3D slide up
\ =3D slide down
h =3D hammer on
p =3D pull off
^ =3D bend up
r =3D release

Intro:
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|.----------------------9--7--|--------------------.|--------------------= --|
|.-9---9-9--9-9--7-9-7--9--7--|-7---7-7--7-7-------.|-7---7-7--7-7---7-7-= 9-|
|--9---9-9--9-9--7-9-7--7--5--|-7---7-7--7-7--------|-7---7-7--7-7---7-7-= 9-|
|--7---7-7--7-7--5-7-5--------|-5---5-5--5-5--------|-5---5-5--5-5---5-5-= 7-|
|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|--12----12----12----12----12-|-10-10-10-10---------|-10-10-10-10--------= --|
|.----11----11----11----11----|-9--9--9--9---9-7---.|-9--9--9--9---9-7---= --|
|.----------------------------|------------------9-.|------------------7-= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|

Verse:
"Won't you open up the border to rivers running green?..."
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|-12^r--9---12^r--9---7-9-7-|-12^r--9---12^r--9---------|
|-10^r--7---10^r--7---5-7-5-|-10^r--7---10^r--7---------|

Pre-Chorus:
"I know folks in Wichita as well as Santa Fe..."
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|-7--------|----------|----------|
|-9--------|-7--------|-7--------|-2--------|
|-9--------|-5--------|-7--------|-2--------|
|-7--------|----------|-5--------|-0--------|

Chorus:
"Open it up.  Living for the trade."
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|.----------------------9--7--|--------------------.|--------------------= --|
|.-9---9-9--9-9--7-9-7--9--7--|-7---7-7--7-7-------.|-7---7-7--7-7---7-7-= 9-|
|--9---9-9--9-9--7-9-7--7--5--|-7---7-7--7-7--------|-7---7-7--7-7---7-7-= 9-|
|--7---7-7--7-7--5-7-5--------|-5---5-5--5-5--------|-5---5-5--5-5---5-5-= 7-|
|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|.----------------------------|--------------------.|--------------------= --|
|.---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---|--9-7-7-7-7-7-7-8---.|---9-7-7-7-7-7-7-8--= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
|-----------------------------|---------------------|--------------------= --|
    --- eighth note picking

Bridge:
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|-5--------|-7--------|-9--------|-9-------------|
|-5--------|-7--------|-9--------|-9-------------|
|-3--------|-5--------|-7--------|-7-------------|
|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|----------|----------|----------|-7-----7-------|
|-3h5------|-5h7------|-9--------|---9-----9-7-9-|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
|----------|----------|----------|---------------|

End:
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-------7------------7-------------|
|-9--7-----9------------9-----9----|
|-----------------------------9----|
|-----------------------------7----|