Its Summertime tab by The Flaming Lips

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              It's Summertime - The Flaming Lips
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Tuning: EADGBe (Standard)
Album: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

This song has two guitars, guitar 1 is fingerpicking
while guitar 2 is strumming, I have placed the chord
names above the fingerpicking that guitar 1 strums
on the parts that required it.


 Intro:

   Am   F    Am   F     D       G        G
 4/4...............................
e|---5-------5---|---5-------5---|---5---5-5---|---3-------7-----|---7-----7---|
B|-----5---6---6-|-----5---6---6-|-----5-----5-|-----3-------8---|-----8-----8-|
G|-5-----5-------|-5-----5-------|-7-----------|-4-----4/7-----7-|-7-----7-----|
D|---------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|....to verse....
A|---------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
E|---------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|

 Verse I:


     It's summertime and I can understand....

 4/4.................
e|---5----5---|---3---3-----3/7-7-|---6-----6---|-----7-5---7-|-----7------7---|
B|-----7----7-|-----3---3---------|-----7-----7-|---7---------|---9---9------9-|
G|-7----------|-4---------4-------|-6-----6-----|-7-------7---|-9--------9-----|
D|------------|-------------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|
A|------------|-------------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|
E|------------|-------------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|


...sad


e|---7-----7---|---5------5-------5-------5-----|
B|-----8-----8-|-----7------5h7-----5h7-----5h7-|
G|-7-----7-----|-7------7-------7-------7-------| Repeat 1x
D|-------------|--------------------------------|
A|-------------|--------------------------------|
E|-------------|--------------------------------|



 Pre-Chorus:

     Look inside............     ...all you'll see....
 4/4................
e|---5-------5---|---3---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3---|---5---5-------5-------|---5---5-------5-------|
B|-----5---5---5-|-----3---3---3---3---|-----3---3---3---3-|-----7---7-5h7-----5h7-|-----7---7-5h7-----5h7-|
G|-6-----6-------|-4-------------------|-3-----------------|-7---------------7-----|-7---------------7-----|
D|---------------|---------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
A|---------------|---------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
E|---------------|---------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|

    Look inside.......             All you'll see is a self-reflected inner sadness.......
 4/4..................                          G       A       Bm
e|---5---5---5---5---|---3---3---3---3---|---2---2---2---2---|     e|--3--|    e|--5--|    e|--7--|
B|-----5---5---5---5-|-----3---3---3---3-|-----2---2---2---2-|     B|--3--|    B|--5--|    B|--7--|
G|-6-----------------|-4-----------------|-3-----------------|     G|--4--|    G|--6--|    G|--7--|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|     D|--5--|    D|--7--|    D|--9--|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|     A|--5--|    A|--7--|    A|--9--|
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|     E|--3--|    E|--5--|    E|--7--|



 Solo:

 4/4.................
e|----14-10----|----14-9----|----14-9----15-14-9-17-15-|
B|-10-------10-|-10------10-|-10------10---------------|
G|-------------|------------|--------------------------|
D|-------------|------------|--------------------------|
A|-------------|------------|--------------------------|
E|-------------|------------|--------------------------|


 Chorus:

G     D Em      A           D
Look outside,  I know that you'll recognize, it's summertime.


Guitar 2:
 4/4............................
e|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|---------|---------------|
B|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|---------|---------------|
G|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|---------|---------------|
D|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|---------|---------------|
A|-----0-0h2/5/7---|-----5-7p5-----|-----0-0h2/5/7\5-|-0h2-5-5-|-----0-0h2/5---|
E|-0h3-----------0-|-3h5-------7p5-|-0h3-------------|---------|-0h3---------3-|


G     D Em      A           G     D
Look outside,  I know that you'll recognize, it's summertime.


Guitar 2:
 4/4............................
e|-----------------|---------------|-----------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|---------------|-----------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|---------------|-----------|-------------------|
D|-----------------|---------------|-----------|---------0-2/4\2-0-|
A|-----0-0h2/5/7---|-----5-7p5-----|-7-7-7p5---|-0-0-0h2-----------|
E|-0h3-----------0-|-3h5-------7p5-|---------5-|-------------------|



 Outro:
        Am      Am      D      D
 4/4..................
e|-------|-----------8-|----------8-|----------8-|-----------8-|
B|-------|-8/10-10-8---|-10--10-8---|-10--10-8---|-8/10-10-8---|
G|-7/9-9-|-------------|------------|------------|-------------|Repeat until 3:12 then fade out.
D|-------|-------------|------------|------------|-------------|Guitar 2 strums the chords above
A|-------|-------------|------------|------------|-------------|the measures while guitar 1 plays
E|-------|-------------|------------|------------|-------------|the notes.


Song structure:

Intro
Verse
Pre-Chorus
Solo
Chorus
Outro

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| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
| b  Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend

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