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Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier by Manic Street Preachers
Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier
CHORDS USED:
Most of the chords are barre, and I only used
flats in the chord names because I felt like it.
EADGBE
Bm: 224432 Am: 577555 A5: 577---
D6: -3-232 Bb: 688766 D5: -577--
D: --0232 Db: 446664 Db5:-466--
Em: 022000 Ab: 466544 Gb5:244---
F: 133211 C: 335553 Dbm:446654
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NOTATION:
^ = accented
s = sixteenth note
E = eighth note
Q = quarter note
H = half note
. = dotted note
x = muted
/ or \ = slide
b = bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
lr= let ring
|----|
|o--o|
|----| = repeat
|----|
|o--o|
|----|
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CHORD STRUMMING:
I'm not sure about the upstrokes and downstrokes, but for
the first part of the song it goes like this with each chord:
^ ^ ^ ^
sssssssssssEsss
(v-- It's really good)
Please buy the album or something and listen to
the song for exactness blablabla now the tab/chords.
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(acoustic comes in 30 seconds into the song)
Bm Bm
Bm D6
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
D Em
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
F Am Bb Db
Limited face paint and dyed black quift
Ab C
Overweight and out of date (repeat verse,
second time just play the C once and let ring)
Q E. s s s Q. (etc, play all power chords this way)
|---------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
|o--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------o|
|---------------------|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|--------------------|
|--7---7---x-7-x-7----|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|
|o-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-5---5---x-5-x-5----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|-4---4---x-4-x-4---o|
|--5---5---x-5-x-5----|--------------------|--------------------|-2---2---x-2-x-2----|
A- merican trilogy In Lancaster pottery
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so fucking funny don't you know
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes)
It's so fucking funny don't you know
Instead of the Db, you can instead play this:
E E E E E E E E E E E E H
|-4-4-----4-4-----|-4-4-------------|
|-----5-------5---|-----6-----------|
|-------4-------4-|-------6---------|
|-----------------|---------6lr-----|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy the future's dead fundamentally
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so fucking funny it's absurd
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternative)
It's so fucking funny it's absurd
SOLO: (in the background )
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E E E Q E. s Q E E H+E s s s s E
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|---------------4-|-----6--9-9b11b9-6-4-|-4lr-------/-----4h7-7-|
|---------------4-|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-4-------------------|-------------4h7-------|
|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
(|---------| faster than sixteenth)
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E Q s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Q Q E Q.
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|----------------6-|-7---9b11b9-7-9--|-8h9p8p6-8p6---6----------------------|---------------------|
|-7---9b11b9-7-9---|-----------------|-------------9--------9h11-11b12b11-9-|-11--11--11-11lr-----|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------9s11-----------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
Bb(lr) Gb5
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternate)
Dbm(lr)
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
Oh well
American trilogy in Lancashire Pottery
American trilogy in Lancashire Pottery
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
All American trilogy the futures dead, fundamentally
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade.
I wish I was in Dixie
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
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version 2
Tuning:EADGBE
Chords:
A:x02220 A5:x022xx
D:xx0232 Gmaj7/B:x2403x
D5:xx023x Dsus2:xx0230
C#m:x46654 Em:022000
F:133211 Am:x02210
Bb:688766 C#:9.11.11.10.9.9.
C:8.10.10.9.8.8. F#5:244xxx
Bm:x24432 C#m7:x46454
C#7:x46464 Gmaj7/C:x3403x
G#:466544
Gmaj7/B
Gmaj7/B
Gmaj7/C
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade,
Dsus2 Em
Fake royalty second hand sequin facace,
F Am
Limited face paint, and
Bb C#
Dyed black quiff,
G# C
Overweight and out of date. x2
((-<0- ------2---------------2------
((-<2- -3----3---3---3-------3--0-0-
((-<2-A5 -2----2---0^2-0^2-----2--0-0-
((-<2- -0----0---0---0-------0--0-0-
((-<0- -----------------------------
((---- -----------------------------
American trilogy in
All american trilogy in
-4----4---4-4-4-4----4------
-5----5---5-5-5-5----5--0-0-
-6----6---4^6-4^6----6--0-0-F#5
-6----6---4^6-4^6----6--0-0-
-4----4---4-4-4-4----4------
----------------------------
Lancashire pottery
used up cars and bottled beer
------2--------------2------
-3----3---3---3------3--0-0-A5
-2----2---0^2-0^2----2--0-0-
-0----0---0---0------0--0-0-
----------------------------
----------------------------
American trilogy
in
All american trilogy
the
-4----4---4-4-4-4----4------
-5----5---5-5-5-5----5--0-0-
-6----6---4^6-4^6----6--0-0- F#5 Bm
-6----6---4^6-4^6----6--0-0-
-4----4---4-4-4-4----4------
----------------------------
Lancashire
pottery it's so fucking funny
future's dead fundamentally
it's so fucking funny
F#5
don't you know, it's so fucking funny, don't you
it's absurd, it's so fucking funny, it's ab -
-4--4--------4------------4--4-----------4-------------))
-5-----5--------5---------6-----6-----------5----------))
-4--------4--------4------4--------4-----------4-------))
-6------------------------6-----------6----------------))
-4------------------------4----------------------------))
-------------------------------------------------------))
know
- surd______________________________
(12-string)
A5
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-------------------------------------2---2-(3)-0--2--4-
-0-0-0----2---2-(3)-2-0--2--4--5-----------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
C#m
F#5
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----------4---4-4^6--4--------------------------------
------6-----------------6--4-4------------/---------7-
-4-------------------------------------------0--7^9---
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A5
D5
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---------------------------6--7----9-(10)-9--7--9\----
-(7)----9--9-(10)-9--7--9-----------------------------
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C#m
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---8^9^8-----8-----------------------------------------
----------11---11^9----9------9-11-11-(12)-11--11^9----
--------------------11---9^11--------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
F#5 Bm
F#5
--------------------2-----------------------------------------
--------------------3--------------0--------------------------
--------------------4--------------0--------------------------
-11--------11-\-----4--------------0----4----4---4-4--4--4----
-----------------0--2--------------0----4----4---4-4--4--4--0-
----------------------------------------2----2---2-2--2--2----
(6-string)
Bm C#m7
-2-----------------4--4--------4-----------
-3-----------------5-----5--------5--------
-4-----------------4--------4--------4-----
-4-----------------6-----------------------
-2-----------------4-----------------------
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C#7
C#m7
-4--4--------4--------------4-----------------
-6-----6--------6-----------5-----------------
-4--------4--------4--------4-----------------
-6--------------------6-----6-----------------
-4--------------------------4-----------------
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Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade...
Key:
((--------))
((--------))
((--------))Repeat anything between these brackets.
((--------))
((--------))
((--------))
-<0-
-<2-
-<2-Rake up: drag the pick up the strings
-<2-
-<0-
----
-7^9-Hammer-on: play the first note normally and then fret the second
note without picking the second and without taking your finger off the
first note.
-9^7-Pull-off: the opposite of hammer-on.
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
Oh well
American trilogy in Lancashire Pottery
American trilogy in Lancashire Pottery
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
All American trilogy the futures dead, fundamentally
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
20ft. high on Blackpool promenade.
I wish I was in Dixie
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
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