Songs in Red and Gray (Suzanne Vega)
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Tabbed by Steve Maund, 5-Oct-2001.
Changes by Bambi Kill (skyw@hotmail.com)
Capo on 4th fret.
I find this easiest to pick with thumb and two fingers, using the thumb
to pick the bottom two notes in each chord. If you listen to the track,
Suzy doesn't always play each note of the arpeggio, so use some artistic
interpretation......
INTRO(A)
Repeat 4 times
Am Am(9) F F(9)
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
B ------1---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------||
G ---(2)----2-----|---(0)----0-----|---(2)----2-----|---(0)----0----o||
D ------------2---|------------0---|-(3)--------3---|-(3)--------3--o||
A 0---------------|0---------------|3---------------|3---------------||
E ----------------|-- -------------|----------------|----------------||
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
INTRO(B)
G G9 F
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------0---0---0-|----------------|------0---------|------0---------|
G ----4-------4---|--5---4---------|----2-----2-----|----2-----2-----|
D --5-------------|----------------|--3---------3---|--3---------3---|
A 5-------5-------|5-------5---5---|3---------------|3---------------|
E ----------------|-- -------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
E E(9) E E
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------0---------|------2---------|------0---------|----------------|
G ----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----------------|
D --2---------2---|--2---------2---|--2---------2---|----------------|
A ----------------|2---------------|2---------------|----------------|
E 0---------------|-- -------------|----------------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
The reproach
VERSE
Am Am(9) F F(9)
the reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face
Am Am(9) F F(9)
made me wonder just how she could know
Am Am(9) F F(9)
of that something that happened between you and me
Am Am(9) F F(9)
so much more than a long time ago
G F
her mother, I can see, lives within her still
G F
cause she looked at me with her eyes
G F
though I had only just met her right then
E E9 E
I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise
INTRO(A) x 2
did i break the thread, or did you break the thread?
well at this point we could ask who cares
as for the promises broken and frayed
it's 19 years late for repairs
the grey pewter vase held the deep red rose,
one piece of coral shone white,
by the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat,
is everything I can recall of one night
INTRO(A) x 4
"Oh, oh......." ('minaret' style!)
Guitar Break (2 guitars)
G F
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G ----------------|7-----5h7p5-4---|4-----5---------|------------4\2/|
D ----------------|----------------|------------3---|----------------|
A ----------------|5-----3-----2---|2-----3---------|------------2---|
E ----------------|-- -------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
E
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G 4---------------|------------4p2-|1-----2-----4---|----------------|
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A 2---------------|------------2---|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|-- -------------|4-----5-----7---|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Am Am(9) F F(9) etc
will you please tell me why I remember these things
after all of this time, I don't know
i must have left all those feelings inside
cause that year I had no courage to show
was i the name you could never pronounce?
or did i even figure at all?
all of this happened before she was born
did i shadow her young pencil marks on the wall
still i am sure i was only but one
of a number who darkened that door
of your home and your hearth and your family and wife
who'd been darkened so often before
oh, the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone
to each other, they know what they mean
somewhere, their future is still yet to come
in ways that are yet as of now unforeseen
INTRO(A) x 4
"Oh, oh......." ('minaret' style!)
Guitar Break (2 guitars) played over INTRO(B)
G F
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G ----------------|7-----5h7p5-4---|4-----5---------|------------4\2/|
D ----------------|----------------|------------3---|----------------|
A ----------------|5-----3-----2---|2-----3---------|------------2---|
E ----------------|-- -------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
E
E ----------------|-----------------|---------------|---------------||
B ----------------|-----------------|---------------|---------------||
G 4---------------|------------2h4p2|1-----2-----4--|---------------||
D ----------------|-----------------|---------------|---------------||
A 2---------------|------------2----|---------------|---------------||
E ----------------|-- --------------|4-----5-----0--|---------------||
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