Rael tab by The Who

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Rael
By The Who
>From The Who Sell Out, 1967
Written by Pete Townshend

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Tune down whole step:
DGCFAD

[note: add one whole tone to each chord below to find shapes, e.g., C majorC = D, FF
= G, Bb majorBb = C majorC ]

|| C majorC C FF G+G | C majorC C FF G+G ||
  Ooh...

  C majorC  C majorC       FF   G+G
The Red-chins in ....
   C majorC  C majorC      FF   G+G
Will overspill their ...
  C majorC   C majorC     FF    G+G   C majorC
And chaos then will....

The country of my fat...

 Bb majorBb          AbAb
Rael, the home ...
  Bb majorBb          AbAb   G+G
To me the center ...

The Red-chins in their ....

My heritage ..
My roots are torn ...
And so to do my ...
  C majorC      FF     G+G    Bb majorBb   Bb majorBb  Bb majorBb   Bb majorBb
And so to do my best ...

  Bb majorBb    (Bb/A)  (Bb/G) FF  (F/Eb) (F/D) (F/CF/C)
Now captain, listen ...
 Bb majorBb               FF
Return to this spot on ....
Bb majorBb               FF
Look toward the ...
  Bb majorBb                AbAb  G+G
And then you'll know ...

|| G+G G+G G/F# C/GC/G C/G G+G ||

   G+G   G/F#  C/GC/G  G+G
If a yellow ...
    G+G   G/F#  C/GC/G G+G
Sickly herald ..
G+G  G/F#  FF
Then you'll know my ...
      C majorC        G+G   C/GC/G G+G
And you'll send your ...

But if a red flag is .....

Bb majorBb              FF
Now captain, listen ...
Return to this spot ...
Look toward the shore ...
  Bb majorBb                AbAb  G+G
And then you'll ...

|| G+G G+G G/F# C/GC/G C/G G+G || A augmentedA A majorA A/Ab D/AD/A D/A A augmentedA || G...

|| Bb majorBb Bb Bb/A Eb/BbEb/Bb Eb/Bb Bb majorBb ||

Ooh ooh ooh
Bb majorBb A augmentedA  AbAb     Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb  Eb/BbEb/Bb Bb majorBb

  D/C   Dsus4Dsus4 D(no3)/C D/C
|---4----||--5---0-------|-4----||
|---5----||--5---5-------|-5----||
|---4----||--4---4-------|-4----||
|--(0)---||--------------|(0)---||
|--------||--------------|------||
|--------||--------------|------||

  C majorC   C5C5 Csus2Csus2  D/C
||-2----|-5---0--||--4-----|
||-3----|-3---3--||--5-----|
||-2----|-2---2--||--4-----|
||-0----|-0---0--||--------|
||------|--------||--------|
||------|--------||--------|

   D/C     Dsus4/C   D(no3)/C  D/C    Dsus4/C D(no3)/C
He's crazy if he thinks ...
He's crazy if he ...
   C majorC      C5C5      Csus2Csus2 D/C    Dsus4/C D(no3)/C
He's crazy if he thinks we're ....
   C majorC  C5C5 Csus2Csus2 D/C
He's crazy....

 [bass only these 2 meas] D/C C majorC  D/C C majorC D/C
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--2-0x--|--2-0---------|--2-0x---|-2-0---------|
|--------|------3-2-0---|---------|-----3-2-0---|
|--------|------------2-|---------|-----------2-|

 C majorC  Bb/CBb/C  C majorC Bb/CBb/C
|---------|-------------------|
|---------|-------------------|
|---------|-------------------|
|--0------|--0----------------|
|-----3x--|-----3--2--0-----0-|
|---------|--------------3----|

  A augmentedA
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||------------4-4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||
||-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
||----------------|---------------||

[Open C majorC pedal throughout]
 D/C  C majorC   D/C C majorC  G/C  D/C C majorC   D/C C majorC D/C
|---4---2----|--4---2---5--|---4---2----|--4---2---4--|
|---5---3----|--5---3---5--|---5---3----|--5---3---5--|
|---4---2----|--4---2---6--|---4---2----|--4---2---4--|
|---0---0----|--0---0---0--|---0---0----|--0---0---0--|
|------------|-------------|------------|-------------|
|------------|-------------|------------|-------------|

  E/C Ab/C  E/C Ab/C E/C  F/CF/C
|---6---6---|---6---6---6--|---7----|--------|
|---7---6---|---7---6---7--|---8----|--------|
|---6---7---|---6---7---6--|---7----|--------|
|---0---0---|---0---0---0--|---0----|-0------|
|-----------|--------------|--------|--------|
|-----------|--------------|--------|--------|

  F/CF/C Fsus4/C F/CF/C  Fsus2/C F/CF/C x2 F/CF/C Fsus4/C F5/C
||--7-----8-----7----|-------------||-7-----8----|-10------|
||--8-----8-----8----|-10---10-8---||-8-----8----|-8-------|
||--7-----7-----7----|-----------7-||-7-----7----|-7-------|
||-(0)---------------|-------------||------------|-0-------|
||-------------------|-------------||------------|---------|
||-------------------|-------------||------------|---------|

 F/CF/C Fsus4/C F/CF/C     A augmentedA
|-7-----8----|-7-------||----------------|---------------||
|-8-----8----|-8-------||----------------|---------------||
|-7-----7----|-7-------||----------------|---------------||
|------------|-0-------||------------4-4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||
|------------|---------||-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
|------------|---------||----------------|---------------||


   D/C      Dsus4Dsus4
If a yellow ...
D(no3)/C D/C        Dsus4/C
Sickly  herald ...
D(no3)/C  C majorC          C5C5
Then you'll know my ...
Csus2Csus2   C majorC        D MajorD
And you'll send ....

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Part II
[approx organ changes; can be played tuned down or in standard tuning:
EADGBE]


C majorC
What I see is ...
   FF    C majorC
In my sweetest ...
FF       C majorC
What I feel is ..
FF        A minorAm
When by newborn ...
FF         C majorC     A minorAm
What I know now ..
             FF
That has been ...
            C majorC
Bless the ...
FF          A5A5
And the god who ...

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