Character Zero chords by Phish

"CHARACTER ZERO" by Phish
(music by Trey Anastasio, words by Tom Marshall)
>From BILLY BREATHES

December 16, 1996

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The Riff (usually done on bass):
p = pull off  / =slide to

E -----------------------------------------
B -----------------------------------------
G -----------------------------------------
D -----------------------------------------
A -----2p0-5-2-0-2-5-2/7-(let note ring as line is sung)
E -3p0-------------------------------------

[RIFF] I was taught a month....

[lightly strum an A chord, getting gradually louder, then
forcefully hit A G]

E              G          A
I-I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, ...
Mulcahey (x4)

E          G       A
I was taught a month ago . . . .
   E            G     A
To bide my time and take it slow . . . .
   E         G      A
But then I learned just yesterday . . . .
   E       G         A
To rush and never waste the day . . . .
    E            G          A
Now I'm convinced the whole day long . . . .
  E        G        A
That all I learn is always wrong . . . .
  E          G
And things are true that I forget . . . .
   E         G      A------A G
Well no one taught that to me yet . . . .

E           G       A
I - I'm off to see the ....
Mulcahey   (x4)
E            E
I - I . . . . Mulcahey, I'm ...
E            E
I - I . . . . Mulcahey, I - 'Cahey, 'Cahey . . . .

[SOLO over E G A (x4)]

[Continue solo and stuff along with E G A progression, and
fade out with refrains along the lines of:]

I - I . . . . I - . . . .

I - I . . . . I - . . . .

I - I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man
Mulcahey..... (BLAH BLAH BLAH.....)

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That should hold you rascals for now!
(when I play this tune, I put an Asus4-A-Asus4-A quick
change at the verse ends that isn't necessary...Trey doesn't
play it, but if you're playing alone on a guitar - as I
usually do - it substitutes in for Page's piano fills.)

(Oh, and I didn't transcribe the solo because, well... I
don't have the patience, and I can barely solo anyway.