Superstar tab by Sonic Youth

Tabs

"Superstar" by the Carpenters (as covered by Sonic Youth)
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 (found on the "If I Were A augmentedA Carpenter" tribute album)

Transcribed by James Nazaroff ([email protected])


Noise, feedback, then:

  F minorFm                D#D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
BB|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  C#C#                 C majorC
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
BB|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  A#mA#m               NC----------------------------

e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BB|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  NC----------------------------  F minorFm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BB|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


F minorFm    D#D#
 Long ago
    C#C#     C majorC
And oh so ...
     A#mA#m      C#C#
I fell in ...
      C majorC
Before the ...

F minorFm      D#D#
Your guitar,
     C#C#         C majorC
It sounds so sweet ...
        A#mA#m     C#C#
But you're not ...
       C majorC
It's just the ...



C#C#           C majorC      A#mA#m   G#G#
Don't you remember you ...
C#C#            C majorC       A#mA#m  G#G#
You said you'd be ...
C#C#     C majorC   A#mA#m   G#G#
Baby, baby, baby, ba...,
 A#mA#m     F minorFm
I love you, I ...

  F minorFm                D#D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
BB|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  C#C#                 C majorC
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
BB|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  A#mA#m               NC----------------------------
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BB|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  NC----------------------------  F minorFm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BB|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


F minorFm     D#D#
Loneliness
     C#C#     C majorC
Is such a ...
     A#mA#m     C#C#
And I can ...
      C majorC
To be with ...

F minorFm     D#D#
What to say,
      C#C#     C majorC
To make you ...
       A#A#    C#C#
Come back to ...
       C majorC
And play yo....



C#C#           C majorC      A#mA#m   G#G#

Don't you remember you told ....
C#C#            C majorC       A#mA#m  G#G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C#C#     C majorC   A#mA#m   G#G#
Baby, baby, baby...
 A#mA#m     C#C#
I love you, I ...

C#C#           C majorC      A#mA#m   G#G#
Don't you remember you told me ...
C#C#            C majorC       A#mA#m  G#G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C#C#     C majorC   A#mA#m   G#G#
Baby, baby, baby, ...,
 A#mA#m     F minorFm
I love you, I ...





Ok, I play this song with a capo on the first fret and use the chords
Em, D, C, BB and A minorAm in the verses and C, B, Am, G, and E minorEm in the
choruses. This seems to sound pretty close, but I think that Thurston
Moore tunes his guitars flat (Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb).

Anyways, this was close enough for me...




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