VALENTINE written by Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars as recorded by the Replacements on Please To Meet Me as transcribed by John Walston (jwalston@mail.trincoll.edu) D A G Well you wish ... D A G that ... D A G and I quess that's ... D A G with who is ... D A If you were a pill, I'd take a ... G and knock you back with ... D A pretty tired you wake up, in ... G like a fool and a lone ... A G A G Tonight makes love to all your kind ....
After paul sings "Valentines" the riff is just D A G, hit D with the counting like: D A G (I hope that's clear, you should be able to get the exact strum 1 2 + 3 + 4 + from the record, with the accents) (second verse, pre-chorus, and chorus the same guitar part) You pop up in some pl... The bridge is just variations on the guitar parts already used, so I'm not going to bother tabing in all out unless someone requests it. The final pre-chorus/chorus is: D A If you were a pill, I'd take ..., G and knock you back ... D A Yesterday was their's to say, this ... G Well if tonight ... A G A G Tonight makes love to all your kind, ....(2x) D A G 1 2 + 3 + 4 + The outro, apparently one of Westerberg's favorite songwriting tools(Think "Kiss Me On The Bus") is just straight eighth note strums, like so: D A G 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + The main riff, if you want to get fancy, when you play A hammer on then pull off to the 6th(E). When you play G, add in the 2nd(A). So the riff looks like this: D D A A6 A G Gadd2 G Gadd2 1 2 3 + 4 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+
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