Sister Madly tab by Crowded House

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Sister Madly
(N. Finn)


NOTES:

-- to play this the way it was originally played, all chords on the
verses are bar chords: E minorEm on the 7th fret, A augmentedA on the 5th fret, and
C majorC on the 8th fret.

-- in the tab of the Richard Thompson solo, the notation "11^" means to
play the 11th fret but bend the note up (not necessarily all the way up
to the tone of the 12th fret--just a quick, ornamental bend. you know,
Thompson is famous for this kind of thing.)

INTRO: E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm C majorC

E minorEm             A augmentedA
now you're heading down to get someone
E minorEm           C majorC
should've done what he had to do years ago
E minorEm       A augmentedA
the position is coming through
E minorEm             C majorC
all the people that you're standing on
E minorEm             A augmentedA
all the people that you're standing on
E minorEm             C majorC
now you're heading down to be someone
E minorEm         A augmentedA
someone that you've seen in a magazine
E minorEm         C majorC
your premonition is coming true
E minorEm       A augmentedA
oh baby you're not so green
E minorEm       C majorC
no baby you're not so green
E minorEm       A augmentedA
no baby you're nutso

    A minorAm  D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD
sister madly waking up the dead
      A minorAm    D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD
you're systematically stepping on my head
    A minorAm  D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD
sister madly waking up the dead
      A minorAm    B7B7       E MajorE
you're systematically stepping on my head

now you're heading down to find something
something that you buried in your back yard
the position is coming through
from all the dirt that you're digging up
from all the dirt that you're digging up
now you're heading down to be somewhere
somewhere you imagined in your wildest dream
the opposition is coming through
from all the people that you're standing on
from all the people that you're standing on
now you better you'd better take a firm hand

sister madly waking up the dead
you're systematically stepping on my head
sister madly waking up the dead
you're systematically stepping on my head


SOLO:
-0---0---0-|-2-3-2-3-2-3---7--7--7-|----------------------|
-5---0---5-|-4-4-4-4-4-4---8--8--8-|-7----7---------------|
-----------|---------------9--9--9-|----9---9-------------|
-----------|-----------------------|----------9--7-5----4-|
-----------|-----------------------|-----------------7----|
-----------|-----------------------|----------------------|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-----------------------|---7----11^----12----13-----13^-----13^14-|
-----7--7--5-7-8>7>5-7-|-5----9------9-----9-----11------12-------|
---4-------------------|------------------------------------------|
-5---------------------|------------------------------------------|
-----------------------|------------------------------------------|
-----------------------|------------------------------------------|


now you're heading down to get someone

14---------------12----------8---------7--------------------------------- |
12---------------12----------8---------8--------------------------------- |
-----------------------------------------| <----------------------------- | solo underneath this line
-----------------------------------------|               -- |
-----------------------------------------|               -- |
-----------------------------------------|               -- |
someone that you should've had years ago  <----------------------------- |

the position is coming through
E minorEm             A augmentedA
all the people that you're standing on
E minorEm             C majorC
all the people that you're standing on
E minorEm          A augmentedA
you're hard to get a hand on

sister madly waking up the dead
you're systematically stepping on my head
sister madly waking up the dead
you're systematically stepping on my head


------0--------------|
-1-0-----------------|
--------2>4>2--------|
--------------2--0-2-|  F9*
---------------------|
---------------------|


* UNUSUAL CHORD

F9F9 XX988(11)


(Transcription by Marck Bailey)

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