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Truckin Off Across The Sky
Guess Who
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Song: Truckin' Off Across The Sky (Cummings, Winter, Kale, McDougall, Peterson)
Band: The Guess Who
Album: Live At The Paramount (1972)
Tabber: Nick Gray
Email: ngray8725@yahoo.ca
Tuning: Standard (EADGBE)
This song is really easy because is so repetitive all you are doing for the whole song
is basically a blues shuffle pattern riff the whole time. The song starts on the band
jamming on the shuffle pattern blues in E until they start to play the song when the
main riff comes in.
Main Riff (2:06)
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|-9-9h11-11h12-12p11-11|
|-7-7-7--7--7--7--7--7-|
|----------------------|
OR
|----------------|
|----------------|
|----------------|
|----------------|
|-2-2h4-4h5-5p4-4|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
The only other change in the song is when Burton sings the line "Truckin Off Across
The Sky" which goes
|---------|
|---------|
|2-2-2-2-4|
|2-2-2-2-4|
|0-0-0-0-2|
|---------|
Play the A chord four times over the line until Burton says the word "Across" then
play the B chord, then play the main riff when he says "The Sky". During the last 4
lines (6:10) of the song play a E chord slowly building lowder when you hit the last
line then hold it.
Finish the song on a E chord