You Could Make tab by Aimee Mann

Tabs with lyrics

YOU COULD MAKE A augmentedA KILLING (Aimee Mann)
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This is on the "I'm with Stupid" album. All the following is written as if
played in G+G (at the knut).

Album
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On the album this track is played in BB (Capo 4th fret).


[Intro]:

|  G+G E minor 7Em7 D MajorD FF  |  C majorC G+G D MajorD C majorC  |  C majorC C majorC C majorC C majorC  |    x 2


With this played over the top by heavily overdriven electric gtr:

   A augmentedA -3------2-0---------3-------2-------
   E MajorE ------------3-----------------------

   A augmentedA -3------2-0--------h--------0-------
   E MajorE ------------3-----0-3-----3---------


[Verse]:
G+G        E minor 7Em7     D MajorD  (DsusDsus)  D MajorD    FF          C majorC       FF    C majorC
There ..
and ..
simply   ..

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[Chorus]:
||            C majorC      G+G         D MajorD  FF  C majorC  .||
|| so you ...||    x3 (on the 3rd time, skip the FF
                                                   and hold the last C majorC 6
beats)


I wish ..
then ...
'til it ..


so you ..x3


I ..
or ..
or try ..


or i ... . .  x4

aahh aah etc.  (chords as for chorus)


Live
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Live, Aimee plays this in Bb majorBb (Capo 3rd fret). The live arrangement is for
(mainly) acoustic guitar. It's basically the same as above, but with picking
like this:


[Intro]:

3 bars (play once only, not like above):

First Bar:
       G+G               E minor 7Em7                D MajorD                 FF    F(add2)
    e--3-------------------------------------------2-2-2--------------------|
    B--0----------------------------3-----3--------3-3-3----1-----1-----h-p-|
    G--0------------0-----------0---0-----2--------2-2-2----2-----0----0-2-0|
    D--0----------0-------------2---------0-----------------3-----3---------|
    A-----------2-------2---------------------------------------------------|
    E-------------------0---------------------------------------------------|
beats  ^                ^                 ^                 ^

2nd Bar:
       C majorC          Am7/B G+G                  D MajorD                C majorC
    e--------------------------------3-3-3------------2-2-2-----------0-0-0|
    B--------------------------------0-0-0------------3-3-2-----------1-1-1|
    G-(0)----------sl---0------------0-0-0------------2-2-2-----------0-0-0|
    D--2--------2-2-(0)-0------------------0-------------------------------|
    A--3--------3-3--2--2-----------------------------------3--------------|
    E-------------------3*-------------------------------------------------|
beats  ^                ^                  ^                ^

3rd Bar:
       C majorC                C majorC                 C majorC                 C majorC
    e-------------0-0-0-------------0-0-0------------0-0-0------------0-0-0|
    B-------------1-1-1-------------1-1-1------------1-1-1------------1-1-1|
    G-------------0-0-0-------------0-0-0------------0-0-0------------0-0-0|
    D----------------------------------------------------------------------|
    A--3----------------3-----------------3-----------------3--------------|
    E----------------------------------------------------------------------|
beats  ^                ^                 ^                 ^

This is played as three 'phrases'   G+G E minor 7Em7 D MajorD FF C majorC     G+G D MajorD C majorC    C majorC C majorC C majorC C, so hit
the G+G in the second bar (Marked *) hard to make it sound like a new phrase.


Verse/Chorus

Chords as per album version. Picking is the root/bass note of each chord held
for about three-quarters of a beat followed by three quick strums of the top
three strings (like in the last bar of the intro of the live version).


Only other difference from the CD is trills on the C majorC and FF of each line of the

verse:


                C majorC            FF        C majorC
             e -0---0--------1-------(0)--
             BB -1---1--------1---h-p-(1)--
             G+G -0---0---h-p--2--0-2-0-----
             D MajorD -2---2--0-2-0-3--------2---
             A augmentedA -3---3-----------------3---
             E MajorE ---------------------------
  . . . . . .  habit
 . . . . . .  tragic
 . . . . . . . have it     . . .etc


Chords
        EADGBe
G+G       320003
E minor 7Em7     022030
D MajorD       xx0232
DsusDsus    xx0233
FF       xx3211
F(add2) xx3011
Am7/B   x20010
C majorC       x32010    (N.B. sometimes x32013 in last bar of intro)

h is a hammer-on
p is a pull-off
sl is a slide


Enjoy! Comments, corrections, etc. welcome.

Nic

Nic Boulton@mercury.co.uk