The X-Ray Style Tablature


Transcribed by:
BEN KOLINA  (keithmoon@home.com)

(Joe Strummer)
 
   E    Esus4 E   B
 I see a million walk the city mile
   E             B 
 the tickertape kings and the juveniles
  A                   E
 will anybody tell me which way to go
  A                    E            A
 will anybody come back on a CB radio

 I'm counting the stars and the telegraph poles
 and each one represents the hopes of a soul
 you'd think that God wouldn't be so hard
 when you see all the little children running
 runnin in the back yard
 
Version 2 
Transcribed by: 
Ewen Thomas CLASH109@HOTMAIL.COM

1st guitar

song only consists of 3 chords

   E   B   A
e--x---x---x--
B--x---x---x--
G--x---4---2--
D--2---4---2--
A--2---x---x--
E--x---x---x--

2nd guitar riffs to play

riff 1

e----------------
B--9h10p9--------
G----------------
D--------9h11p9--
A----------------
B----------------

riff 2

e----------------
B--9h10p9--------
G--------9h11p9--
D----------------
A----------------
B----------------


   E                       B
I see a million walk the city mile
   E                       B
the tickertape kings and the juveniles
  A                          E
will anybody tell me which way to go
  A                          E       A
will anybody come back on a CB radio

riff 1

I'm counting the stars and the telegraph poles (riff 1)
and each one represents the hopes of a soul    (riff 2)
you'd think that God wouldn't be so hard       (riff 2)
when you see all the little children running
runnin in the back yard

Hold me mississippi gourd
 with a sub-saharan song
 somebody is wailing in the financial district sun
 can anybody feel the distance to the nile
 I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile
 
 Gonna make like Eddie from a rockabilly train
 Gonna beat out the blues on the ball and chain
 you can't pull a holdup with a bebop gun
 these people living now ain't got no heart
 and they aint ever had none
 
 down on the border
 they crawl all the way
 to get a grip of living where the clean-all spray
 can anybody feel the distance to the nile
 I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile

 you can't pull a holdup with a bebop gun
 these people living now ain't got no heart
 and they aint ever had none
 
 I hear a payphone ringing out on murder mile
 and the sucker who's picks up
 gets his number dialed
 and all the sparkling waters that ever flowed
 could never wash down this town so clean that it glows

 And I need to see in an x-ray style
 I need some rock art that don't come in no file.
 can anybody feel the distance to the nile
 I wanna live, and I wanna dance a while

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