Understanding Salesmen tab - Eels

Guitar tabs with lyrics

Tabbed by James Fennell (aka Eliot Rosewater) 9-Nov-09.
Corrections to jamespfennell@gmail.com

A augmentedA tab is given for the introduction and the first line. Throughout the rest
of the song plucking and strumming go hand in hand. Just emphasize the
lower strings more so than the higher strings. The only part of this tab
that may sound somewhat askew is the D MajorD minor, however I attribute this to
the presence of strings in the original recording from Blinking Lights.

Tab:

  A minorAm               A minorAm
e|-------0---------|-------0---------|
BB|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|
G+G|---2---------1---|---2---------1---|
D MajorD|-2---------------|-2---------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|-----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|-----------------|

  A minorAm                C majorC
e|-------0---------|-------0---------|
BB|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|
G+G|---2---------2---|---0---------0---|
D MajorD|-2---------------|-2---------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|-----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|-----------------|
         A augmentedA knock...  door means

  FF                 C majorC                 G+G
e|-------1---------|-------0---------|-------------3---|
BB|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-------0---------|
G+G|---2---------2---|---0---------1---|-----0-----0-----|
D MajorD|-3---------------|-2---------------|-0---------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
        Hello        Jesus            calls

Full chords:

A minorAm A minorAm

A minorAm               C majorC
  A augmentedA knock on the door means
FF       C majorC     G+G
  Hello jesus calls
A minorAm              C majorC
  A augmentedA ring on the phone means
FF           C majorC       G+G
  A augmentedA trip to niagara falls

DmDm            C majorC                DmDm
  Daddy don't let me down this time
           C majorC              DmDm
  I'm all alone inside my mind
              A minorAm
  And it's no small thing
  FF           C majorC        G+G
  That i must prove to you

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A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC G+G


A minorAm             C majorC
  A augmentedA late night card game
FF          C majorC         G+G
  With the guys is alright
A minorAm            C majorC
  But i would rather
FF        C majorC          G+G
Take you for a test drive

DmDm            C majorC                DmDm
  Daddy don't let me down this time
           C majorC              DmDm
  I'm all alone inside my mind
              A minorAm
  And it's no small thing
  FF           C majorC        G+G
  That i must prove to you


FF       C majorC          G+G
  While I look out on the passing fields
FF     C majorC               G+G
  The sun through the bugs on the windshield
         FF
Makes me feel
     C majorC
Like I
      G+G
Don't matter


A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC G+G