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Artist/Band: Blitzen Trapper Tabs
Song: The Tailor Tab

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

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CHORD REFERENCE:

    G   Bb  C   Dm  F   Gm
e|--3-------0---1---1---3---|
B|--3---3---1---3---1---3---|
G|--0---3---0---2---2---3---|
D|--0---3---2---0---3---5---|
A|--2---1---3-------3---5---|
E|--3-------3-------1---3---|

G

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      G
I'm a long way from my home

      Bb             C      Dm
I was borne on the raging sea

             F           Bb           C         F
And when I first struck land, with my head in hand

            Dm             F         C
I built a house out of an old oak tree

              Dm           F               C   Gm
And raised a family out of earth and electricity

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          G
And I was king of my domain

       Bb            C         Dm
But my fortitude approved in vain

             F       Bb         C        F
And when the locust came like a summer rain

          Dm              F         C
Devouring everything that I held dear

            Dm                F        C
And all I'd worked for simply disappeared

     F        Bb           C          F
So I crept away, for I had debts to pay

               Dm        F       C
And joined the army as a privateer

                Dm              F                C           Gm
Yeah, it was then, the wind had whispered, but I would not hear

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Acoustic guitar solo (chords written above the bar):

   G                                   Gm
e|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|-8----------------|
B|-------------5-7s|10-7s5-----------|-----------6-8s10-|---10s8-6---------|
G|-----0---4-7-----|-------7-4p0-----|-----0---5--------|----------7p0-----|
D|-0h5---5---------|-------------4---|-0h5---5----------|--------------7---|
A|-----------------|---------------5-|------------------|------------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------------|

   F
e|--------------8-10s|13-10s8------------|
B|-------6-8s10------|--------10-8-6-----|
G|-----7-------------|---------------7-5-|
D|-5h7---------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------| --> repeat solo twice.

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      G
So we sailed out across the land

           Bb            C       Dm
Through an ocean made of sinking sand

             F        Bb        C        F
And though I lost my men, I was born again

       Dm          F        C
As a tailor in an unknown land

       F               Dm          C
With a needle and some thread in hand

        F           Bb              C         F
Mending suits and slacks, stitching up the cracks 

         Dm        F             C
In the backs of my neighbour's heads

             Dm                F          C                  Gm
And soon the word, yeah, of my work had spread through the town

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INTERLUDE

SYNTH:
e|----------------------|-------------------|
B|-3s10-8----8----------|------------10-8---|
G|--------10---7-10-9-7-|-9------9-7------7-|
D|----------------------|---10-7------------|
A|----------------------|-------------------|
E|----------------------|-------------------|

ACOUSTIC GUITAR:
   Gm              Dm                Am              F       C
e|---0-----0---------1-----1-------|---0-----0---------0-------0-----|
B|-----3-----3---------3-----3-----|-----1-----1---------3-------3---|
G|-------3-----3---------2-----2---|-------2-----2---------2-------2-|
D|-----------------0-------------0-|-----------------3---------------|
A|---------------------------------|-0-------------0---------3-------|
E|-3-------------3-----------------|---------------------------------|

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     G
So before the king I stood

           Bb            C      Dm
I said, I come from the raging sea

            F         Bb        C       F
And let the truth be told, I am not so old

             Dm               F      C 
As you might first have taken me to be

            F                Dm    C
For numbers never could apply to me

           F       Bb             C          F
For I'm as old as time, and maybe half as blind

               Dm              F    C
What some of you might call infinity

                Dm            F             C    Gm
Yeah, I'm the tailor of the earth and electricity

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**Repeat acoustic guitar solo

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End with this solo (time signature changes to 7/8)

e|---------------|----------------|
B|-------------5-|-7s10-7s5-------|
G|-----0---4-7---|----------7-4p0-|
D|-0h5---5-------|----------------|
A|---------------|----------------|
E|---------------|----------------| --> fade out

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NOTATION LEGEND:

| s  slide
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
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