Rolling People tab by The Verve

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*  The notation of music contained herein is purely my   *
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* sources to decipher the music, I just listened very hard. *
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"The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
Written by The Verve
Produced by Youth/The Verve

tabbed by Jeremy Joseph ([email protected])
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Intro:
	A5A5 B5B5 (x4)

The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
Right after the last B5B5 chord:

D MajorD|--------7---9-------------| with delay pedal
A augmentedA|---7/9--------------------|

Then comes the riff:
   A augmentedA  BB
E MajorE|---------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------|
G+G|--------------8------------9h7---| It's like this during the verses,
D MajorD|----7----9---(9)--9--------9-----| with slight ad-lib variations.
A augmentedA|----7----9--------9--9--9--------|
E MajorE|----5----7-----------7--7--------|

It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
since that's basically the key to sounding like them.

* Verse 1 *
(with riff)

 Been shot...


(solo 1) - Played sort of distorted and bluesy

E MajorE|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
BB|----------------7-----------------|-------------------7----------------|
G+G|-----------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7----|--------------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7---|
D MajorD|-------7h9----------------------7-|--------7h8h9---------------------7-|
A augmentedA|---7h9----------------------------|--7h8h9-----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|

Play something like this in the BB blues scale with
delay on the upward run...

* Verse 2 *
(I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)

 With a ...

*Chorus*

BB
 But here we are, ...
A augmentedA                  G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
 Can't stay for ...
BB
 So come alive, we're ...
A augmentedA                  G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
 Don't ask why, ....


* Verse 3 *

On a big ...

*Chorus*

BB
 And here we are, ...
A augmentedA                  G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA
 Don't ask why, we ...
BB
 So come alive, ....
A augmentedA                  G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
 Don't ask why, ...


(solo 2)  - Played very clean

E MajorE|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
BB|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
G+G|-------------7---------------------|----------7h4----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------9---7h4-----------|--------------7h4------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------7--5-----|---------------------7-------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------7--|------------------------7----|

E MajorE|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
BB|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
G+G|-------------7-------------7-------|----------7h4----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------9-----7h9---------|--------------7h4------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------7h9------------|---------------------7-------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------|------------------------7----|

 Play and repeat the 2nd line a few times..


*And the rest of the lyrics*:

Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
plays echoey notes in the BB scale.
E MajorE|-----------------------------------|
BB|---10-10-10---9b(10)---7(b)--------|
G+G|--------------------------9h7------|

Back to the riff, and the song gets out of control.

The "eep" part at the end of the song:

  EEP, EEP       eep, eep
E MajorE|--11-------11-------|--7--------7--------|
BB|--14b(16)--14b(16)--|--10b(12)--10(12)---|
G+G|--------------------|--------------------|


Best of luck.. This song kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!

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