Solsbury Hill chords by Peter Gabriel

4 VERSIONS#

From rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Bob Paley)

Earlier this week I posted a request for Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill",
and a number of folks either sent the "nevada" version or directed me
there.  (Thanks everyone!)  It turns out that though the chords on "nevada"
are basically right, the tab for the instrumental bits weren't even close.
Also, the display of the chords over the lyrics was misleading.  So, I
worked on it in order to improve the tab.  The lyrics come from
'/pub/music/lyrics/g/gabriel.peter/volume.1'....I made some real minor
modifications.  I'll send this to nevada after I've posted it.

The song IS in the key of B, but the capo should be on the FOURTH fret
rather than the second.  It makes it sound a lot better!  The chords of the
instrumental bits tend to be rapidly arpeggiated (perhaps they're
finger-picked, but I do better flat-picking quickly...), and the chords of
the verses are strummed, with some light appregiation prior to each vocal
phrase.  [The vertical bars represent phrases, not actual measures].

Intro:

   Section A (1X)                    Section B (5X)                  to
Verse..
E||--------|-----------|-----------||--------|-----------|----------||---------
B||--------|-0---1---0-|-1---0---3-||--------|-1---3--0--|-1---0--3-||---------
G||----0-2-|--0---0--0-|--0---0--2-||----0-2-|--0-----0-0|--0--0--2-||----0-2--
D||--4-----|---0---2-0-|---2---0-0-||--4-----|---2----0--|---2-0--0-||--4------
A||--------|-----------|-----------||--------|-----------|----------||---------
E||--------|-----------|-----------||--------|-----------|----------||---------
            (G)  (C)(G)  (C) (G)(D)           (C)    (G)   (C)(G)(D)


G     D    G                             G     D     G
                Climbing ..
                                        Em     D     Em
                I ..
                                        Em     D     Em
          Wind ..
                                        G      D     G
                 Eagle ..
                                               G      D     G
                 He ..
                                        Em     D     Em
              Came ..
                                               Em     D     Em
             Standing ..
                                        Cmaj7  D        Cmaj7
                           Had ..
           information
               D               Cmaj7
              [I] just ..
                D        Cmaj7
               My ..

              "Son," ..
Instrumental: Section A (1X), then Section B (1X)

verse 2


Instrumental: Section A (1X), then Section B (1X)
verse 3

etc.....

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VERSION 2


Bob Paley
rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu



Well, here goes.  There are two different E chord forms,  marked as E(1) and
E(2), just to confuse you...


Solsbury Hill  - Peter Gabriel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>From the First Album.

Capo 2nd fret.

7/4 time


Guitar motif:

Beats  1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   5   +   6   +   7   +
  ||------------------------------------------------------------||
  ||---3-----5-----2-----------3-----2-----0---------------0----||
  ||*----2---------2-------------2---------1-------1---2-------*||
  ||*------4-------2---------------4-------2-------------------*||
  ||---0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0--------||
  ||------------------------------------------------------------||


In addition there is a simple melodic figure played at the start of each bar
throughout the verses over top of the chords:

Beats  1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   5   +   6   +   7   +
  ||------------------------------------------------------------||
  ||---2-----------0--------------------------------------------||
  ||*----------------------2---2-------------------------------*||
  ||*----------------------------------------------------------*||
  ||------------------------------------------------------------||
  ||------------------------------------------------------------||



Intro:
 Guitar motif x6


Verse 1:
                          A  E/A  A

                          A  E/A  A
  Climbing ..
                          F#m  E/F#  F#m
  I ..
                               F#m  E/F#  F#m
  Wind ..
                        A  E/A  A
  Eagle ..
                        A  E/A  A
  He ..
                           F#m  E/F#  F#m
  Came ..
                             F#m  E/F#  F#m
  Standing..
                          Dmaj7  E/D  Dmaj7
  I ..
                               Dmaj7
  I ..
  E/D         Dmaj7        F#m
  Just ..
     E(1)        Dmaj7
  My ..
  Dmaj7   E/D  Dmaj7   D         A           Esus4   E(2)
  Son, ..


 Guitar motif x2


Verse 2:

 Guitar motif x4


Verse 3:
   Guitar motif to fade (x12)


Chords:
     A:  x02220      E/A:  x02100
   F#m:  244222     E/F#:  2x2100
 Dmaj7:  xx0222      E/D:  xx0100
  E(1):  022100        D:  xx0232
 Esus4:  0xx455     E(2):  0xx454

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VERSION 3


Submitted by jkr@ifi.uio.no


SOLSBURY HILL - Gabriel
        =======================


Intro:  A E


                         A   E   A
Climbing...
                        F#m  E  F#m
I ..
                              F#m  E  F#m
Wind ..
                       A   E   A
Eagle ..
                       A   E   A
He ..
                           F#m   E   F#m
Came ..
                             F#m   E   F#m
Standing..
                          Dmaj7
I ..
  (E)       Dmaj7             Dmaj7
I ..
 (E)         Dmaj7         Hm9-7
Just ..
   (E)         Dmaj7
My ..
Dmaj7            D(Hm)     A          Esus4   E       (D the intro)
Son..


verse 2


verse 3

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VERSION 4

Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
-----------------------------


Intro:
------
E/B B E/B B Gb/B

The Rest:
---------
	........................
				B Gb/B B-B

	Climbing ...
	 			B Gb/B B-B

	   I ..
				Abm Gb/Ab Abm-Abm

  A ...
				Abm Gb/Ab Abm-Abm

	  Eagle ..
				B Gb/B B-B

  	    He ..
				B Gb/B B-B

       Came ..
				Abm Gb/Ab Abm-Abm

      Standing ..
				Abm Gb/Ab Abm-Abm

      I had ..
				Abm/E

 I ..
 Gb/E  Abm/E-Abm/E		Abm/E

 I just ..
 Gb/E   Abm/E-Abm/E             Abm/Db

 My ...
 Gb/Db    Abm/Db-Abm/Db

 "Son", he said,
 Abm/Db Gb/Db    Abm/Db

 "Grab ..
 Dbm        Ebm          E       Db       E/B

[intro]

verse 2

[intro]

verse 3
[intro to end]

Ending:
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E/B-E/B B, Dbm Ebm E Gb B