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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Lawson <jefflogic77@yahoo.com>
Subject: s/smiths/headmaster_ritual.tab

"Headmaster Ritual" - The Smiths 
>From the album Meat Is Murder

Tabbed by Jeff Lawson

Open E Tuning

EBDG#BE (from lowest to highest)

Intro/Chorus

-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0 |
-3-3-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0 |
-3-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0 | Repeat a couple of times
-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2 |
-1-1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0 |
-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-0-0-0 |
  
                       then fill A
 
-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-3-3-3-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-3-3-3-5-5-5-1-1-1-1-1-1 |
-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-1-1-1-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-x-x-x-x-x-x-3-3-3-3-3-3 |
 
                       riff in E

-------------------------------
---------------0--------------0
----1-0----1-0------1-0----1-0-
---0------0--------0------0----
--2---------------2------------
-0------0--------0------0------

                        then fill B

-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3 |
-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-5-5-5-1-1-1-1-1-1 |    back to riff in E
-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 | 
-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0-0 |
-x-x-x-3-3-3-3-3-3 |


---------------
--------------0
----1-0----1-0-
---0------0----
--2------------
-0------0------

Verse

A            B       E    C#m
Belligerent ghouls............

A           B        riff in E 
Spineless swine...............                       

B
Troops jealous................

A            E        C#m
Joke since 1962...............

B
Military two step.............

------0------2-0-
---4---4--------4
----3------------
-----------------
---------0-0-----
-2---------------

Left part out, oh well you can probably figure out the
rest.

Cheers,

Jeff L.

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