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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:00:46 EST
From: Matthias886@aol.com
Subject: o/our_lady_peace/a_story_about_a_girl.tab 

Artist: Our Lady Peace
Song: A Story about a Girl
Album: Gravity

This tab is all my own work from listening to the record.  I don't
guarantee that it's perfect, I only know that it sounds good.  Anyway,
here goes...
Standard Tuning

Intro Guitar1 (clean)
e|--------------------------------|-----------------2--------------|
b|-----0-----------0-----------0--|--------------------------------|
g|-----------3-----------3--------|-----4-----3-----------4-----3--| (repeat)
d|---------4-----4-----4-----4----|---------2-----2-----2-----2----|
a|---4---4-----4-----4-----4------|---2---2-----2-----2-----2------|
E|-2------------------------------|-0------------------------------|

Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (clean)
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
g|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| (repeat)
d|-----4---4-------4---4-------6--|-----2---2-------2---2-------2--|
a|-----4---4-------4---4-------6--|-----2---2-------2---2-------2--|playstaccato
E|-----2---2-------2---2-------4--|-----0---0-------0---0-------0--|

Prechorus1 Guitar1 same as Intro Guitar1 (clean)
Prechorus1 Guitar2 same as Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (dist.)

Chorus1 Guitar2 (dist.)
e|---------|---------|---------|---------|
b|---------|---------|---------|---------|
g|-4-------|---------|---------|---------| (strum chords strongly)
d|-4-------|-6-------|-2-------|-4-------|
a|-2-------|-6-------|-2-------|-4-------|
E|---------|-4-------|-0-------|-2-------|

Postchorus Guitar1 (dist.)
e|-----------------------------4~-|--------------------------------|
b|-----5h7-5h7-----5h7-5h7--------|-----5h7-5~------5~--5~------5~-|
g|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
d|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
a|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------4~-|--------------------------------|
b|-----5h7-5h7-----5h7-5h7--------|-----5h7-5~------5h7p5----------|
g|--------------------------------|-----------------------6-5h6p5--|
d|--------------------------------|-------------------------------8|
a|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Postchorus Guitar2 same as Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (clean)

Verse2 Guitar1 (clean)
e|--------------------------------|-----------------2--------------|
b|-----0-----------0-----------0--|--------------------------------|
g|-----------3-----------3--------|-----4-----3-----------4-----3--|
d|---------4-----4-----4-----4----|---------2-----2-----2-----2----|
a|---4---4-----4-----4-----4------|---2---2-----2-----2-----2------|
E|-2------------------------------|-0------------------------------|
                                    (dist.)
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
b|-----0-----------0-----------0--|-----------------5h7p5----------|
g|-----------3-----------3--------|-----4-----3-----------6-5h6p5--| (repeat)
d|---------4-----4-----4-----4----|---------2-----2---------------8|
a|---4---4-----4-----4-----4------|---2---2-----2------------------|
E|-2------------------------------|-0------------------------------|

Verse2 Guitar2 same as Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (clean)

Prechorus2 Guitar1 same as Verse2 Guitar1
Prechorus2 Guitar2 same as Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (dist.)

Chorus2 Guitar1 (dist.)  (not sure about this part)
e|-----------------------------14-|-----------------19----18----14-|
b|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
g|-----------15----16----15-------|-----------15-------------------|
d|-----16-------------------------|-----16-------------------------|
a|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------14-|--------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------|-----------------17----16----12-|
g|-----------15----16----15-------|-----------15-------------------| (repeat)
d|-----16-------------------------|-----16-------------------------|
a|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Chorus2 Guitar2 same as Chorus1 Guitar2 (dist.)

Bridge(...with all my faith...) Guitar1 same as Chorus2 Guitar1 (dist.)
Bridge Guitar2 same as Chorus1 Guitar2 (dist.)

Guitar1 Solo can be imitated by playing around with Postchorus Guitar1
(dist.)

Verse3 Guitar1 continue soloing
Verse3 Guitar2 same as Intro/Verse1 Guitar2 (dist.)

Final Chorus and Outro for both same as Chorus2 and Bridge

That's about it.  Cheers, everybody.