Arousing Thunder chords by Grant Lee Buffalo

Chords with lyrics

Song : Arousing Thunder
Artist : Grant Lee Buffalo
Album : Copperopolis
Transcribed by : Geoffrey Nickles


For this song you will need to detune your guitar down
1/2 a step: eb bb gb db ab eb

The intro of the song is D MajorD and Dsus4Dsus4 with the
following riff played over the top it four times:

  D MajorD  Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD

e-----2-3--2----      X 4
b---3---------3-
g-2-------------
d---------------
a---------------
e---------------

Then the first verse starts

              (with intro riffx2 played over the top)
E minorEm     G+G        D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Maybe the rain's ....

E minorEm     G+G          D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD (I'll just refer
Surely it knows, ....to this as
                          D MajorD riff now)
E minorEm       G+G      D MajorD riff
Walking 'round ...

E minorEm                    A augmentedA
Pretty soon these clouds have ....

G+G       D MajorD     A augmentedA
I know it's ...

G+G          D MajorD    A augmentedA
Arousing thunder I ...

G+G        D MajorD     A augmentedA
For a second so I ....


 (There could be a very quick G+G in here, I'm not sure)
E minorEm ^ D MajorD riff

E minorEm       G+G       D MajorD riff
Think when we first ...

    E minorEm            G+G            D MajorD riff
Didn't know who you were ...

       E minorEm           G+G          D MajorD riff
You were the girl in the entryway....

     E minorEm                A augmentedA
You were still in ...

G+G       D MajorD  A augmentedA
I know it's a lot

G+G        D MajorD         A augmentedA
Arousing thunder I only ....

G+G        D MajorD          A augmentedA
For a second so I ....

 A augmentedA   F# minorF#m  A augmentedA  F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m A augmentedA  F# minorF#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m  D MajorD riff D MajorD riff
About your dreams and orange soda .....

(If you don't like all the changes above you can just strum the F# minorF#m
the whole way though til 'more' but it doesn't sound as good)

E minorEm        G+G       D MajorD riff
Looks like the ...

E minorEm       G+G      D MajorD riff
Might as well take ....

     E minorEm              G+G           D MajorD riff
You know sometimes when I hold ....
E minorEm              A augmentedA
Then I hear you ...

G+G            D MajorD  A augmentedA
Well I know it ...

G+G          D MajorD  A augmentedA
of this story I'm ....

G+G          D MajorD         A augmentedA    D MajorD riff D MajorD riff D MajorD riff etc
Just what would it take to .....


E minorEm G+G D MajorD riff

E minorEm G+G D MajorD riff

E minorEm G+G D MajorD riff

Just play G+G over the following lines

What would it
What would it        D MajorD
What would it take you to laugh?

Repeat the above twice, then

I'm not too sure on the ending but I'll give it a go

G+G      E minorEm
Ba ba ba .....

G+G      E minorEm
Ba ba ba ba ....

G+G      E minorEm    D MajorD
Na na na na .....


Then play D MajorD (plus the riff a few times) till
the end.

A augmentedA couple of the chords:

D MajorD sus4  F# minorF#m

e-3-   e-2-
b-3-   b-2-
g-2-   g-2-
d-0-   d-4-
a-0-   a-4-
e-x-   e-2-


If you have any comments or corrections or just let me know someone's
 using this tab e mail me at [email protected]  :-)