Your Protector tab by Fleet Foxes

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Difficulty: Novice

Your Protector - Fleet Foxes

Submitted by: lonesomecow


There are 3 guitar parts here that I'll tab out,

First: Acoustic Guitar.

Chord Shapes:

   E minorEm D MajorD  C majorC  G+G  A augmentedA Em(2) D/ED/E A(2) G(2) B minorBm Cmaj7Cmaj7

e||--0---2---0---3---0----7------------------2---3---||
BB||--0---3---1---3---2----8----7---5----3----3---5---||
G+G||--0---2---0---0---2----9----7---6----4----4---4---||
D MajorD||--2---0---2---0---2----9----7---7----5----4---5---||
A augmentedA||--2-------3---2---0----7----7---7----5----2---3---||
E MajorE||--0-----------3--------0----0---5----3------------||

Strumming pattern should be sort of like this:

||--X---X----X-X-X--|--X---X----x-x-x--||


Intro: On flutes, but you can finger pick it if you like:


e||-----|--------|-----|-----|-----------|-7------|------||
BB||--8--|-(hold-)|-7---|-8---|------7--8-|-8---7--|-8----||
G+G||--9--|-(for--)|-7---|-9---|-9----7--9-|-----7--|-9----||
D MajorD||-----|-(ages!)|-----|-----|-10--------|--------|------||
A augmentedA||-----|--------|-----|-----|-----------|--------|------||
E MajorE||-----|--------|-----|-----|-----------|--------|------||


Play this intro behind the first few verses -

She left a week to roam,
Your protector's coming home.
Keep your secrets with you girl,
Safe from the outside world.

You walk along the stream
Your head caught in a waking dream
Your protector's coming home,
coming home

- Then ease into strumming an E minorEm chord, until -

E minorEm D MajorD  C majorC
As you lay to die beside me, baby
    G+G         D MajorD
On the mornin' that you came
     E minorEm    A augmentedA
Would you wait for me?
  G+G
The other one
   A augmentedA    E minorEm
would wait for me.

inbetween repeats play 'Riff 1':

               (Riff 1)

   E minorEm            G+G  D MajorD

e||------0-----0-0-0-----0----3---2--||
BB||------0-----0-0-0-----0----3---3--||
G+G||------0-----0-0-0-----0----0---2--||
D MajorD||--2---2---2-2-2-2-2---2----0---0--||
A augmentedA||--2---2---2-2-2-2-2---2-----------||
E MajorE||--0---0---0-0-0-0-0---0-----------||


Repeat the chorus but change to Em(2) on the last chord,
then play the next part twice like this:


     You run------------------------------------------------with the  de-vil

   Em(2)          D/ED/E Em(2)             D/ED/E Em(2)

e||------7-----7-7-7-----7--------7--|------7-----7-7-7-----7--------7--|------7--||
BB||------8-----8-8-8-----8----7---8--|------8-----8-8-8-----8----7---8--|------8--||
G+G||------9-----9-9-9-----9----7---9--|------9-----9-9-9-----9----7---9--|------9--|| (keep strumming
D MajorD||--9---9---9-9-9-9-9---9----7---9--|--9---9---9-9-9-9-9---9----7---9--|--9---9--|| away...)
A augmentedA||--7---7---7-7-7-7-7---7----7---7--|--7---7---7-7-7-7-7---7----7---7--|--7---7--||
E MajorE||--0---0---0-0-0-0-0---0----0---0--|--0---0---0-0-0-0-0---0----0---0--|--0---0--||


Keep playing Em(2) through the instrumental break.

Play octaves for E minorEm and A minorAm through the next bit:

  E minorEm A minorAm

e||---------||
BB||---------||
G+G||---------||
D MajorD||------7--||
A augmentedA||--7---x--||
E MajorE||--0---5--||


     E minorEm
Tell your brother to be good
     A minorAm      E minorEm
Tell your sister not to go
     E minorEm
Tell your mother not to wait
     A minorAm      E minorEm
Tell your father I was good  (ease into strumming again...)


    C majorC
As you lay to die beside me, baby
    G+G         D MajorD
On the mornin' that you came
     E minorEm    A augmentedA
Would you wait for me?
  G+G
The other one
   A augmentedA    E minorEm  Riff1 E minorEm  Riff1 E minorEm  Riff1 E minorEm  Riff1
would wait for me.


Strum this behind the first oohs -

E minorEm A(2) G(2) A(2) E minorEm A(2) G(2) A(2) B minorBm

Cmaj7Cmaj7 B minorBm Cmaj7Cmaj7 B minorBm Cmaj7Cmaj7 B minorBm G(2) A(2) E minorEm  Riff1 E minorEm  Riff1


Then just strum the same chords once each time for the last oohs.


And that's the acoustic guitar, hope it wasn't too confusing!

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Second: Electric Guitar 1.

Play almost exactly the same thing as the acoustic guitar
but only strum on the beat, except in these parts:


All the 'ooh' parts -


e||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|
BB||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|-----7---|
G+G||---9---|-7---9---|---9---|-7---9---|---9---|-7---9---|-7-9-----|---------|
D MajorD||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|-----7---|-9-------|
A augmentedA||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|
E MajorE||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|

e||--------|-----7---|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|---------||
BB||---8----|-7-------|----10-8-|-7-------|---8----|-7-------|---------|---------||
G+G||--------|---------|---------|---------|--------|-----7---|-7---9---|-9-------||
D MajorD||--------|---------|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|---------||
A augmentedA||--------|---------|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|---------||
E MajorE||--------|---------|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|---------||


'Tell your brother' bit (slide these a bit) -

e||---7---|-5---10---|-7-------||
BB||---5---|-3---7----|-5-------||
G+G||-------|----------|---------||
D MajorD||-------|----------|---------||
A augmentedA||-------|----------|---------||
E MajorE||-------|----------|---------||

That's all for guitar 2

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Third: Guitar 3, which I think is actually on mandolin.

Either play all the same chords or nothing except in these parts:

All the 'oohs', play tremolo (lots of picking!) -


e||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|
BB||---8---|-7---8---|---8---|-7---8---|---8---|-7---8---|-7-8-7---|---------|
G+G||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|-9---7---|
D MajorD||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|
A augmentedA||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|
E MajorE||-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|---------|---------|

e||---7----|------10---|-----8-7-|---------|---7----|----------|---------|---------||
BB||--------|-10--------|---------|-10------|--------|-10---7---|-7---8---|-8-------||
G+G||--------|-----------|---------|---------|--------|----------|---------|---------||
D MajorD||--------|-----------|---------|---------|--------|----------|---------|---------||
A augmentedA||--------|-----------|---------|---------|--------|----------|---------|---------||
E MajorE||--------|-----------|---------|---------|--------|----------|---------|---------||


That's guitar 3.

These two guitar parts are what the singers are 'oohing' as well.
Sounds great when all put together!


I think that's everything, sorry if it's confusing!
Please correct if you see something, thanks!