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Pale Blue Eyes
The Velvet Underground
>From their self-titled third album
Transcribed by Zach Pollock
This is the author's own work
There are two guitar parts to this song, the Rhythm chords have been
previously submitted to the archive. This is a full Tab of the Lead Guitar
part including the Solo. Some Lyrics have been included to illustrate the
phrasing. The original is played on a very clean electric guitar though
this sounds pretty nice acoustic too.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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Sometimes...
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |----10---------10-----------8---||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||---10--10h12--10h12p10--7/10----| |8/10-------10----10----6/8------||8-------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| Happy Sometimes I feel so ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |-----------------------||-----------------------||------5----------------| |---10------10-------8--||---10------10-------8--||6--------6-------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||---------------7-------| |8/10----10---10--8-----||8/10----10----10--8----||---------------------0-| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| Sad Sometimes... Happy but ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |---6---------------11--11h13p11-||----10---------10----------8----| |-------7------------------------||--------------------------------| |8--------------8/10-------------||8/10-------10-----10----8-------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| mostly it just make me mad ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |----6--------------8------------||--------------------------------| |--------6h8p6----------8h10p8---||----10---------10----------8----| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |8-------------/10---------------||8/10-------10------10---8-------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| Baby it just make me mad Chorus: ( played after each verse) ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |-----------------------||---8------------------8||-----8----10p8---------| |---10-------10------10-||-------8h10-8h10p8-----||--------8-------8h10p8-| |-----------------------||10-----------------10--||--10-------------------| |8/10----10--------10---||-----------------------||-----------------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| Linger On your Pale Blue ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |-----------------------||-----------------------||---8------------------8| |---10------10-------8--||---10------10-------10-||------8h10--8h10p8-----| |-----------------------||-----------------------||10-----------------10--| |8/10----10---10---8----||8/10-----10-------10---||-----------------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| |-----------------------||-----------------------||-----------------------| Eyes Linger on ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 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|----8-----------12----------10--||---8------------12--10----------| |--------------------------------||-------------------------8h10p8-| |/10-------10/12--------/10------||9--------10/12------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| |--------------------------------||--------------------------------| Return to 4th verse _________________________________________________________________
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