Tabs
This is the closest I've been able to come to figuring out the Star
Spangled Banner. If you make any corrections, please let me know.
Enjoy!
"Star-Spangled Banner"
by Frances Scott Key
let all notes ring
E MajorE
|----------0------------------------|-----4--2-0-----------------------------|
|-0------0-----------7/\7-5---------|------------4-----2-4-5--5--------------|
|--1---1--------------------1-3-4---|-4-4-----------------------4-1----------|
|---2-------------------------------|-------------------------------2--------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
full bend * repeat (play twice)
|-2-2-4-5-7--7------5-4-2-4-5--5----|-5-4----2-0-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|------------4--------2-4-5--------------|
|-----------------------------------|---------------------------1-3-4--------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------2--5-4-2----------|---------2-4-5-7------0-2----5-2--------|
|---5-5-5\4-2-2-2----------5-5\4----|-----5-----------------------------5----|
|-4---------------------------------|-4-4------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
slide slide
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I have just a couple corrections...
>|-2-2-4-5-7--7------5-4-2-4-5--5----|-5-4----2-0-----------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|------------4--------2-4-5--------------|
>|-----------------------------------|---------------------------1-3-4--------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
^^^ These 2's should be 4's.
>|-----------------2--5-4-2----------|---------2-4-5-7------0-2----5-2--------|
>|---5-5-5\4-2-2-2----------5-5\4----|-----5-----------------------------5----|
>|-4---------------------------------|-4-4------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
There should be a 4 between 2 and 5 here.^^^
(I assume that "full bend" in the first line means you bend it so that it
sounds two frets higher; if that's the case, then that's fine.)
Here's some chords that I scraped together (in C, not E MajorE):
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (Francis Scott Key)
--------------------------------------------
[I suspect that some of these chords are very subject to improvisation;
in fact, if you wanted to, you could pretty much play a different chord
for each note, by playing 
C majorC under C, E, or G, 
FF under F, A, or C, and so
on, sort of like I did for the very last line. So I just wrote down my
own little interpretation.]
C majorC 
G+G C majorC 
A minorAm 
D7D7 G+G
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
C majorC G+G FF C majorC G+G C majorC
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC A minorAm D7D7 G+G
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
C majorC G+G FF C majorC G+G C majorC
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
C majorC G+G 
DmDm FF
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air
C majorC G+G FF C majorC A minorAm D7D7 G+G
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
C majorC FF DmDm 
GsusGsus G+G
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wa - ave
C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC A minorAm G+G C majorC
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
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Adam Schneider [email protected] U.C. Santa Cruz
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