Roy Orbison Knows chords by Harding John Wesley

Chords with lyrics

Title: Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
Artist: John Wesley Harding
Album: It Happened One Night [L-FIEND CD 137] Track 16
Credits: Song written by John Wesley Harding
Transcription started by "Sen"
continued by William Vaughan
transposed to E MajorE major and edited by Ryan Harding


Chords: E MajorE {0 2 2 1 0 0}
  Esus4Esus4 {0 2 2 2 0 0} or {0 0 2 2 0 0}
    E7E7 {0 2 0 1 0 0}
    A augmentedA {5 7 7 6 5 5}
    A7A7 {5 7 5 6 5 5}
   C# minorC#m {4 4 6 6 5 4}
    C minorCm {3 3 5 5 4 3}
    B minorBm {2 2 4 4 3 2}
    F#F# {2 4 4 3 2 2}
    G#G# {4 6 6 5 4 4}
    BB {7 9 9 8 7 7}
    B7B7 {2 2 1 2 0 2} - bass-E string can be unplayed
    A: {0 0 2 2 2 0}
  Asus4Asus4 {0 0 2 2 3 0}
   A7: {0 0 2 0 2 0}
    D MajorD {2 5 4 2 3 2} or {2 0 0 2 3 2}
    BB {x x 4 4 4 x}

Naming convention 1)bass runs are shown in square brackets [G#G# A augmentedA A#A# BB]
         2)only a few bass strings to be played when  ...............
          a line of dots is used above chords, e.g.  E MajorE E F#F# F# G#G# G#
         3)only play strings 2, 3 & 4 (B, G+G & D MajorD) for   ,,,,,
          the end B: & A: chords with commas above:   B: A:
Note: This file is in 80 column format. One line's chords extend beyond 80 col
so have been put on the next line (after the lyrics and a backslash character).


         ROY ORBISON KNOWS (THE BEST MAN'S SONG)
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E MajorE              A augmentedA     C# minorC#m   F#F#
 Well your voice grips me ....

      A augmentedA    BB     E MajorE  [bass run: G#G# A augmentedA A#A# BB] B7B7
 Takes hold of ...

E MajorE              A augmentedA        C# minorC#m   F#F#
 Though we try to harmonize with ...
                             ...............
    A augmentedA          BB          E MajorE A: E MajorE E MajorE E F#F# F# G#G# G#
 When we're out of tune at least ...

A augmentedA       BB
 Baby its a ...

D MajorD
 Leaves Mister ...

   A augmentedA          E MajorE
 I love you I know, but ...

     C# minorC#m              F#F#
 When the  only place forward ...

    A augmentedA            A augmentedA
 Its time to think twice, ...

  E MajorE   [G#G#  A augmentedA   A#A# BB] B7B7
 Turn and keep walking ...

           A: Asus4Asus4 A:
 Or be my bride...

        E MajorE Esus4Esus4 E MajorE
 Or be ...

        E MajorE    E7E7 A:        C# minorC#m   C# minorC#m C minorCm B minorBm F#F#
 Well Roy Orbison, he knows ...

      A augmentedA      BB       E MajorE [G#G# A augmentedA A#A# BB] B7B7
 Well he told me last ...

E MajorE          E7E7   A:       C# minorC#m  C# minorC#m C minorCm B minorBm F#F#
 Hope this honesty ...
                                    .........
       A augmentedA           BB              E MajorE A: E MajorE E F#F# G#G# A augmentedA
 He said to lie is death to love - I ...


A augmentedA        BB
 Baby when the ...

D MajorD
 So many actresses 've ...

   A augmentedA              E MajorE
 I love you I know, but its ...

      C# minorC#m             F#F#
 I'm gonna  tape you this song ...

    A augmentedA          A7A7
 Its time to think ...

  E MajorE   [G#G#   A augmentedA  A#A#  BB] B7B7
 Take me to the altar or ...

              A augmentedA        E MajorE Esus4Esus4 E MajorE
 Or leave me behind, yeah, ...



      E MajorE          A augmentedA          C# minorC#m   C# minorC#m C minorCm B minorBm F#F#
 Well my memories, they lie to ...

        A augmentedA            BB       E MajorE  B7B7
 Well like a runaway train, you know...

E MajorE                 E7E7 A augmentedA             C# minorC#m   C# minorC#m Cm/
 I'm gonna tell 'em where you live  so ....\Bm F#F#
                                  ........
      A augmentedA             BB        E MajorE (E7E7) A: E MajorE E MajorE F#F# G+G A augmentedA
 And take back and take ...


A augmentedA         BB
 But I no longer ...

D MajorD
 My nervous ...

   A augmentedA            E MajorE
 I love you I know, ...

    C# minorC#m          C minorCm F#F#
 I was  foolishly ....

     A augmentedA          A7: (triplets)
 It was time to think twice...

   E MajorE            C# minorC#m
 I hope that you blossom, I ...

  A augmentedA             A7: (triplets)
 Write me a postcard ...

 E MajorE            C# minorC#m
 If you get married, ..

 A:            B7B7
 If you get married ...

    A:    Asus4Asus4 A:
 Introduce me ...
              ,,,,,
          E MajorE  A: B: A: E MajorE
 Introduce me ...


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Notes:
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1. Will (see credits) tells me he was told by Wes that it is played in D MajorD
  usually with a capo, but this was in about 1994.  On the CD, I'm sure
  I can hear a bass-E in the first bar or two so I've transcribed it in
  open standard tuning.

2. I'm pretty certain that the words are correct after initially being
  unsure who "'ve already started fakin'" and about "Write me a postcard
  make it .....", "I know it's still alive" and "Mister Logic".  Whether
  you sing "or be my bride" etc. or "woah be my bride" is entirely up to
  you.

3. Don't worry too much about the specific chord fingerings for the most
  part, nor that you have this uncontrollable urge to play an A7A7 of some
  variety when "its time to decide" - Wes decided not too just for that
  verse.

4. 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 {coming shortly}
  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

5. 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.

6. Enjoy!


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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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