Chords with lyrics
.... ....
,ad8PPPP88b, ,d88PPPP8ba,
d8P" "Y8b, ,d8P" "Y8b
dP' "8a8" `Yd Kiss / Lovers' Society
8( " )8 ======================
I8 8I Track 13 from the live album
Yb, ,dP "It Happened One Night" by
"8a, ,a8" John Wesley Harding [L-FIEND CD 137]
"8a, ,a8"
"Yba adP" Transcribed by Ryan Harding
`Y8a a8P'
`88, ,88' "Kiss" is by Prince, "Lovers' Society" is by
"8b d8" John Wesley Harding
"8b d8"
`888'
"
Kiss [Prince]
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A augmentedA
Better not talk ...
Know how to ...
Better not talk ...
That won't ...
[A augmentedA 
BB 
C majorC 
C#C# 
D MajorD] D MajorD
You don't have to ...
To have an ...
[D MajorD C#C# C majorC BB A augmentedA] A augmentedA
Just leave it all up ...
My love is gonna ...(OK gonna sing this)
E MajorE
You don't have to be ...
D MajorD
You don't have to be ...
E MajorE
Ain't no particular sign ...
D MajorD {12th fret trebles}
Just want your extra ..
(I only did that so I could do that bit!)
{12th fret trebles}
KISS!
Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]
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C majorC 
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Well they're taking minutes to do ...
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm 
E minorEm 
FF
Well they're handing out tenders for new ...
DmDm 
G7G7 C majorC 
Cmaj7Cmaj7 A minorAm
And the chairman's so together ...
DmDm G7G7 C majorC E minorEm FF C majorC
It's always lovers weather --- if Fin...
FF E minorEm DmDm
He doesn't need sugar --- we ...
FF E minorEm 
G+G
When he's planning the broken hearts' ...!
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I wanna belong ...
E minorEm FF G+G
Part of the ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I wanna belong ...
DmDm FF G+G
Part of the ..
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
They shouldn't mess ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
They shouldn't ...
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Well they talk about things ...
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm E minorEm FF
The committee are emotional big ...
DmDm G7G7 C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 A minorAm
They've always got a quorum --- they love ..
DmDm G7G7 C majorC E minorEm FF C majorC
But this is the lovers' famous forum and ..
FF E minorEm DmDm
They say it's paranoia ...
FF E minorEm G+G
But I think it's paranormal that ....
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I wanna belong ...
E minorEm FF G+G
Part of the ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I wanna belong ...
DmDm FF G+G
Part of the ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
They shouldn't mess with ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC
They ....
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Casanova and Don Juan talking ....
A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm E minorEm
Sylvia Plath and Mrs. Browning they just ....
FF G+G C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 A minorAm
I'm standing at the lover's keyhole with ...
FF G+G C majorC E minorEm FF C majorC
'Cause it sure felt cold and ...
FF E minorEm DmDm
You should see the archives ..
FF E minorEm G+G
Proves every lover just loves ...
G7G7
Him or herself, ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I'm vaguely bitter, 'cause ...
E minorEm FF G+G
Out of the text of ..
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
I wanna belong ...
DmDm FF G+G
Part of the ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
They shouldn't mess ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm
They shouldn't ...
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm E minorEm FF G+G C majorC
They shouldn't ...!
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Thanks to [email protected] for the heart posted on an ascii art
newsgroup and [email protected] (Normand Veilleux) for doing the
anti-aliased version which Scarecrow posted on rec.arts.ascii and I edited.
Chords
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CHD E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e
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A augmentedA [0 0 2 2 2 0]
D MajorD [x 0 0 2 3 2] or [2 0 0 2 3 2]
E MajorE [0 2 2 1 0 0]
C majorC [0 3 2 0 1 0]
A minorAm [0 0 2 2 1 0]
E minorEm [0 2 2 0 0 0]
FF [1 3 3 2 1 1]
DmDm [x 0 0 2 3 1]
G7G7 [3 2 0 0 0 1]
Cmaj7Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]
G+G [3 2 0 0 0 3]
BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A augmentedA BB C majorC C#C# D MajorD]
At the end of KISS, {12th fret trebles} uses a single finger (index or middle)
to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or maybe 4 are played
with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.
Notes
=====
1. The first part of Kiss is played in bass-strum style, but I haven't
included the bass notes, only the chords.
2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I
expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.
3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let
me know. "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded, syllable-wise,
like what Wes sings. It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the
famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song. Perhaps he
is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of the word
would come together.
4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able to get
hold of the original CD.
5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)
or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd
like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,
"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and
"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do
them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out
the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded
so far are:
From "The Name Above The Title":
I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
Save A augmentedA Little Room For Me
The People's Drug
The Person You Are
Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by
Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks
from "It Happened One Night":
Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
Kiss/Lovers' Society
and from "Here Comes The Groom"
The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett
and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again
These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its
mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by
using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new
maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find
the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:
unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal
Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)
which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be
a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.
7. Enjoy!
Regards,
Ryan Harding
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Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC
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"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"
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