Off Duty Trip tab by The Raincoats

Tabs

The Raincoats
"Off Duty Trip"(1979)
http://www.myspace.com/theraincoats

standard tuning

Guitars alternate between choppy, staccato riffing and ringing out
partial chords. Listen to the song to get the proper feel. If something
should ring out a bit, I've put in this symbol (~) and if there's an
abrupt rest, I've used an asterisk (*).

Intro
Guitar L
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|------9-9-------------9-9-------------7-7-------------7-7-------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------|| x2
|-7h8-------7-8---7h8-------7-8---5h7-------5-7---5h7-------5-7--||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Guitar R (comes in with the drums on the second measure)
|-------0~----------------(3)(3)--(0)------------------1--1-0----||
|-3---x-3~--------3--------3--3----3---x-3~-------3----3--3-3----||
|-4---x-4~--------4--------4--4----2---x-2~-------2----2--2-2----||
|-2---x-2~--------2--------2--2----0---x-0~-------0----0---------|| x1
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Bass (doubles guitar L)
|------9-9-------------9-9-------------7-7-------------7-7-------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------|| x2
|-7h8-------7-8---7h8-------7-8---5h7-------5-7---5h7-------5-7--||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||


Verse
Guitar L
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|------9-9-------------9-9-------------7-7-------------7-7-------|| x4
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|-7h8-------7-8---7h8-------7-8---5h7-------5-7---5h7-------5-7--||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

  "Just a couple in the park..."

Guitar R (play choppy and staccato)
|-------0-----------------(3)(3)--(0)---------------1--1--0------||
|-3---x-3--x-3--3--x-3---x-3--3\-x-3---x-3-3--x-3---3--3--3--3---||
|-4---x-4--x-4--4--x-4---x-4--4\-x-2---x-2-2--x-2---2--2--2--2---|| x3
|-2---x-2--x-2--2--x-2---x-2--2\-x-0---x-0-0--x-0------0-----0---||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Guitar R
|-------0~----------------(3)(3)--(0)------------------1--1-0----||
|-3---x-3~--------3--------3--3----3---x-3~-------3----3--3-3----||
|-4---x-4~--------4--------4--4----2---x-2~-------2----2--2-2----||
|-2---x-2~--------2--------2--2----0---x-0~-------0----0---------|| x1
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Bass (doubles guitar L)
|------9-9-------------9-9-------------7-7-------------7-7-------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------|| x4
|-7h8-------7-8---7h8-------7-8---5h7-------5-7---5h7-------5-7--||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Guitar L
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|------9*9*------------9*9*------------7*7*------------7*7*------|| x1
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|-7h8-------------7h8-------------5h7-------------5h7------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Guitar R
|-------0*--------3----(3)--------(0)--------------1-----0~------||
|-3---x-3*--------3---x-3----------3---x-3*--------3-----3~------||
|-4---x-4*--------4---x-4----------2---x-2*--------2-----2~------||
|-2---x-2*--------2---x-2----------0---x-0*--------0-----0~------|| x1
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Bass (doubles guitar L)
|------9*9*------------9*9*------------7*7*------------7*7*------|| x1
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|-7h8-------------7h8-------------5h7-------------5h7------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Pre-Chorus
Guitar L
|------------------------------------||---------------------------------||
|-1-1--x-x--1-1--x-x---1---x-1---x-1-||-1-1--x-x--1-1--x-x---1---1--/3--||
|-2-2--x-x--2-2--x-x---2---x-2---x-2-||-2-2--x-x--2-2--x-x---2---2--/4--||
|-2-2--x-x--2-2--x-x---3---x-3---x-3-||-2-2--x-x--2-2--x-x---3---3--/5--||
|------------------------------------||----------------------3---3--/5--||
|------------------------------------||---------------------------------||
      play x3                play x1

Guitar R
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------8-8------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------10-10-----------------------------------|| x2
|-------------------------------10-10-----------------------------------||
|----------------------1------------------------------------------------||
|-x-x--5-5--------0----------3----------x-x--5-5-------0-----1-----3----||
 "Wooooooo-man your pinned up..."

Bass
|-1414------1414-----14h15------17-17---1414------1414---------------------|
|------1414-----1414--------17---------------1414------1414--15------17-17-|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------15--------|
cont.
|-1414------1414-----14h15------17-17---1414------1414---------------------|
|------1414-----1414--------17---------------1414------1414--15---15---/17-|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
Guitar L
|-0--------------------------------------------------------------||
|-0------0-------5------5------7---7-7---7---7-7-----------------||
|-1------1-------5------5------7---7-7---7---7-7---5-------------|| x3
|-2------2-------5------5------7---7-7---7---7-7--(5)-7-7-5h7-7--||
|-2------2-------3------3------5---5-5---5---5-5-----------------||
|-0--------------------------------------------------------------||

 "Join     the     professionals..."

Guitar L
|---------------------------------7~------5~---------------------||
|----------------5------5------7--7~------5~---------------------||
|-1------1-------5------5------7--7~------5~---------------------|| x3
|-2------2-------5------5------7--7~------5~---------------------||
|-2------2-------3------3------5---------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||

Bass
|-----------------------------------------------------------12/14-|
|-----------------------------1212------1212------1212------------| x3
|-7------7--------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------8------8/---------1010------1010------1010-------|

both guitars play out of the chorus with this:
|-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x--|
|-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x--|
|-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x--|
|-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x-7-7-x-x--|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|

Bass plays this out of chorus
|-----------------------------------------|
|-1212------1212------1212------1212------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|------1010------1010------1010------1010-|

Go back to the intro and repeat the entire sequence two more times and that's it.

Cheers,
Bennyshambles78