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The Person You Are

John Wesley Harding

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk T H E P E R S O N Y O U A R E by John Wesley Harding from the album "The Name Above The Title" Key: G major ~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRO: G D C D (D) Em I put my forehead to the door G D I heard the famous sound of infidelity Em Looks like I've loved and lost once more G D Oh, but all's fair in love and war, supposedly C I couldn't even burst in on you G D See scrabbling sheets or your excuse C G D Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE C D | Hurt the person you are? / RIFF A: G D C D G D C D (D) Em I slammed my glass down on the bar G D My problems, they hit the floor so gracefully Em I don't know where I parked the car G D That's okay; tonight I'm on the town without me C Tonight it's just me and my evil twin G D The one who slips one more drink in C G D The one who slips away when I start sinking G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE C D | Hurt the person you are? / G D They hurt the person you are C D The person you are G D The person you are C D The person you are RIFF B: G D C D G D C D (D) Em Got a job to pay the rent G D Put people out of work by repositioning Em Now no-one's sitting on the fence G D Whose garden will we end up sitting in? C It's getting much to hard to heal the sky G D It stings too much to open up our eyes C G D To fundamental truths that we hold as lies G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING FOUR TIMES C D | Hurt the person you are? / G D They hurt the person you are C D The person you are G D The person you are C D The person you are G D C D G D C D G The person............... person............... person...... yeay. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OUTRO ON LEAD GUITAR -- T H E E N D -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L E A D G U I T A R T A B S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I N T R O ~~~~~~~~~ G D C ||-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8---| ||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8---------------| ||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9---------------------| ||--S----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| ||--T----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| ||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . D |-------------------------| |-------------------------| |--7----------------------| |-------------------------| |-------------------------| |-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R I F F B ~~~~~~~~~~~ G D C |-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----| |--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------| |--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------| |--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . D G D |--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-| |--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------| |--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------| |-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . C D |-------------10-----8----|-------- ----------------| |--------8----------------|--7--7--R----------------| |--9----------------------|--7--7--E----------------| |-------------------------|--------S----------------| |-------------------------|--------T----------------| |-------------------------|-------- ----------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O U T R O ~~~~~~~~~ G D C |-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----| |--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------| |--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------| |--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . D G D |--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-| |--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------| |--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------| |-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . C D G |-------------10-----8----|--------------7----------|--7---------------------|| |--------8----------------|--------8----------10----|--8---------------------|| |--9----------------------|--7----------------------|--7---------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O P T I O N A L R H Y T H M G U I T A R P A R T F O R R I F F A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Normally played on piano) ^ G ^ D ^ C |--------3----------------|--------2----------------|-------------------------| |--------0----------------|--------3----------------|--1----------------------| |--------0----------------|--------2----------------|--0----------------------| |--------0--------------0-|-------------------------|--2----------------------| |--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-|--3-----2-----0----------| |--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|--------------------3----| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . D ^ ^ h G ^ D ^ |--------2-----0--2-------|--------3----------------|--------2----------------| |--------3-----3----------|--------0----------------|--------3----------------| |--------2-----2----------|--------0----------------|--------2----------------| |--0----------------------|--------0--------------0-|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-| |-------------------------|--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . ^ ^ C D |-------------------------|--2------------------------| This section was |--1----------------------|--3------------------------| invented by me |--0----------------------|--2------------------------| around the part |--2----------------------|--0------------------------| played with the |--3-----2-----0----------|---------------------------| piano at this |--------------------3----|---------------------------| point in Wes's 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . recording. Notes: * `^' means downstroke, `h' means hammer-on. * In the 4th bar of this section, the 3rd beat and it's half-beat can either be played using the hammer-on to the treble note as shown above (in which case the chord on the 3rd beat becomes Dsus2), which is one of my personal favourite colourings, or the normal D fingering can be retained, with a downstroke on the 3rd beat and an upstroke on the following half-beat. * Don't worry unduly about playing only those strings shown in the tabs when doing downstrokes with your plectrum or thumb. In particular the C chord strums are shown with the treble-E string not played, but this isn't always easy to get right, so don't worry, be happy :-) * A reasonably flexible but reasonably firm pick/plectrum is best if you want to do this riff (IMHO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G E N E R A L N O T E S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. If you are playing solo, then the most important thing is to keep up the rhythm and chords, so you can forget the lead guitar solo parts. I like to use the last 4 bars of the OPTIONAL RHYTHM PART FOR RIFF A as my intro, and obviously stick to the RIFF A after the first verse, using it again after the second verse, where the recording has RIFF B. In place of the OUTRO, I just strum the chords of the rhythm guitar part, allowing the words (person... person... person... yeay) to hold the flow of the ending, and then finish with a flourish. 2. As always, learn the rhythm of the song from the recording. 3. Enjoy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C H O R D S ~~~~~~~~~~~ G chord D chord e||---|---|-o-| G e||---|-o-|-----| F# B||---|---|---| B B||---|---|-o---| D G||---|---|---| G G||---|-o-|-----| A D||---|---|---| D D||---|---|-----| D A||---|-o-|---| B A||---|---|-----| A E||---|---|-o-| G E||---|-x-|-----| either use thumb on 2nd fret or don't play bass-E string C chord Em chord e||---|---|---| E e||---|---|-----| E B||-o-|---|---| C B||---|---|-----| B G||---|---|---| G G||---|---|-----| G D||---|-o-|---| E D||---|-o-|-----| E A||---|---|-o-| C A||---|-o-|-----| B E||---|---|---| E E||---|---|-----| E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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