Rael tab by The Who

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

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transcribed by
litgo@aol.com
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Tune down whole step:
DGCFAD

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

|| C C F G | C C F G ||
   Ooh...

    C   C              F     G
The Red-chins in ....
     C   C           F      G
Will overspill their ...
    C     C         F        G     C
And chaos then will....

The country of my fat...

  Bb                   Ab
Rael, the home ...
   Bb                   Ab     G
To me the center ...

The Red-chins in their ....

My heritage ..
My roots are torn ...
And so to do my ...
    C           F         G        Bb     Bb    Bb     Bb
And so to do my best ...

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

|| G  G  G/F# C/G C/G  G ||

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

But if a red flag is .....

Bb                           F
Now captain, listen ...
Return to this spot ...
Look toward the shore ...
    Bb                               Ab    G
And then you'll ...

|| G  G  G/F#  C/G C/G G || A A A/Ab D/A D/A A || G...

|| Bb Bb Bb/A  Eb/Bb Eb/Bb Bb ||

Ooh ooh ooh
Bb  A   Ab         Eb   Bb   Eb/Bb  Bb

   D/C     Dsus4 D(no3)/C D/C
|---4----||--5---0-------|-4----||
|---5----||--5---5-------|-5----||
|---4----||--4---4-------|-4----||
|--(0)---||--------------|(0)---||
|--------||--------------|------||
|--------||--------------|------||

   C     C5 Csus2    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           C5           Csus2  D/C        Dsus4/C D(no3)/C
He's crazy if he thinks we're ....
     C    C5 Csus2  D/C
He's crazy....

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

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

   A
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||------------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 pedal throughout]
  D/C   C      D/C  C   G/C   D/C  C      D/C  C  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/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/C  Fsus4/C F/C   Fsus2/C  F/C x2 F/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/C Fsus4/C F/C         A
|-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            Dsus4
If a yellow ...
D(no3)/C D/C                Dsus4/C
Sickly   herald ...
D(no3)/C    C                   C5
Then you'll know my ...
Csus2      C               D
And you'll send ....

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


C
What I see is ...
      F        C
In my sweetest ...
F              C
What I feel is ..
F               Am
When by newborn ...
F                 C         Am
What I know now ..
                         F
That has been ...
                        C
Bless the ...
F                    A5
And the god who ...