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Slip Kid | guitar tab
By The Who
>From The Who By Numbers, 1975
Written by Pete Townshend, (c)1975 Fabulous Music Ltd.






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transcribed by                             Whotabs
litgo@aol.com      rev 1999-12-24          www.thewho.net/whotabs
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Guitar 1: Capo on 3 (to play piano chords)
Guitar 2: standard
Guitar 3: Capo on 3, volume pedal
Guitar 4: standard
Guitar 5: Capo on 3, acoustic (removed from remaster)

Chord    Gtr 1&5 (piano) Gtr 2            Gtr 3       Gtr 4
G        355433          355xxx           355733      xx000x
C        x35553          8 10 10xxx                   xx555x
F        xx3565          x8 10 10xx       xx3565      xx10 10 10x
Eb       x65343          x688xx                       xx888x
Bb       6x3366          688xxx                       xx333x
Dm       x57765
Gm       355333          x10 12 12xx
Am       577555          577xxx
D        x5777x          x577xx

Note: chords in () are piano/acoustic chords; all patterns and
leads approximate

[intro; verse pattern]
[gtr 1; piano arr. for gtr]
||:G    (C)  (Dm)  (F)(C) |G   (C)  (Dm)  (F)  (C):||
[gtr 2]
||-----------|------------|----------|-------------||
||-----------|------------|----------|-------------||
||.----------|--------5/6/|7---------|------------.||
||.5---------|------------|--5-------|--------3/4/.||
||-----------|--------3/4/|5---------|-------------||
||-3---------|------------|--3-------|--------1/2/-||
||[gtr 5; acoustic, removed from remaster]
||-3-3-3-3---|5-5-5-5-3-3-|3-3-3-3---|5-5-5-5-3-3--||
||-3-3-5-5---|6-6-6-6-5-5-|3-3-5-5---|6-6-6-6-5-5--||
||.4-4-5-5---|7-7-7-5-5-5-|4-4-5-5---|7-7-7-5-5-5-.||
||.5-5-5-5---|7-7-7-3-5-5-|5-5-5-5---|7-7-7-3-5-5-.||
||-5-5-3-3--5|--5-5-3-3-3-|5-5-3-3--5|--5-5-3-3-3--||
||-3-3-------|-----------3|3-3-------|-----------3-||

           |G         (C
I've got my clipboard, textbooks
|Dm             F        C)
 Lead me to the station, yeah
   |G         (C          |Dm  F
I'm off to the Civil War
     C)    |G          (C
I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots
   |Dm             F
I'm runnin' in the rain
C)   |G         (C          |Dm F C)
Gonna run 'til my feet are raw

[chorus]
|C         F        |Eb          Bb
(Slip kid, slip kid) second generation
         |C       F     |Gm
And I'm a soldier at thirteen
|Am        D        |Am   D
(Slip kid, slip kid) realization
          |Am   D        |(Bb)      |              |G   |    |
There's no easy way to be free,   no easy way to be free
                         |----------|--------------|----|----|
                         |----------|--------------|----|----|
                         |----------|--------------|----|----|
                         |8-10-12---|14---15-------|17--|----|
                         |----------|--------------|----|----|
                         |6-8--10---|12---13-------|15--|----|

[repeat intro]
|G    (C)  (Dm)     (F)   (C)   G   (C)  (Dm) (F)  (C)   |
              It's a hard, hard world           (I left my...)
[guitar 2]                                               |
|----------|-------------------|---------|---------------|
|----------|-------------------|---------|---------------|
|----------|---------------5/6/|7--------|---------------|
|5---------|-------------------|--5------|-----3---------|
|----------|---------------3/4/|5--------|3-4-5----------|
|3---------|-------------------|--3------|---------------|

[repeat verse]
I left my doctor's prescription bungalow behind me
I left the door ajar
I got my vacuum flask
Full of hot tea and sugar
Left the keys right in my car

(Slip kid, slip kid) second generation
Only half way up the tree
(Slip kid, slip kid) I'm a relation

     |Am         D    |Bb        |              |G   |    |
I'm a soldier at sixty-three,  no easy way to be free
                      |----------|--------------|----|----|
                      |----------|--------------|----|----|
                      |----------|--------------|----|----|
                      |8-10-12---|15----14---15-|17--|---x|
                      |----------|--------------|----|----|
                      |6-8--10---|13----12---13-|15--|---x|

[bridge]

|G        |   (F)  |G      |(Bb  F) |G      |  (F)  |G     |(Bb  F) |
[gtr 3]
|3--------|--------|3------|--------|3------|-------|3-----|--------|
|3--------|--------|3------|--------|3------|-------|3-----|--------|
|7--------|--------|7------|--------|7------|-------|7-----|--------|
|5--------|--------|5------|--------|5------|-------|5-----|--------|
|5--------|--------|5------|--------|5------|-------|5-----|--------|
|---------|--------|-------|--------|-------|-------|------|--------|

[gtr 1 arr for piano]    x2                               x2
||:(Bb  G)       |       :||:(Bb  G)       |(Bb  G)       :||
                             Slip kid
||---------------|--------||---------------|---------------||
||-8/6/8/6/8-----|--------||-8/6/8/6/8-----|8/6/8/6/8------||
||.--------------|-------.||.--------------|--------------.||
||.5-------------|-------.||.5-------------|5-------------.||
||---------------|--------||---------------|---------------||
||---------------|--------||---------------|---------------||
||[gtr 5; acoustic; removed from remaster]
||3--3--3--3--3--|--------||3--3--3--3--3--|---------------||
||3--3--3--3--3--|--------||3--3--3--3--3--|---------------||
||12-12-12-12-12-|--------||12-12-12-12-12-|---------------||
||12-12-12-12-12-|--------||12-12-12-12-12-|---------------||
||10-10-10-10-10-|--------||10-10-10-10-10-|---------------||
||---------------|--------||---------------|---------------||

Keep away old man, you won't fool me
You and your history won't rule me
You might have been a fighter, but admit you failed
I'm not affected by your blackmail   [pick slide]
You won't blackmail me

[solo]
|G                   |
(blackmail  me...)
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|--------|
|3^(5)------|3^\^\^\-|
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|--------|

|-----------|--------|
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|-----5/5|
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|-----3/3|

[gtr 1]
||G   (C)    (Dm)   (F)  (C) |G   (C)  (Dm)  (F)  (C) ||
||[gtr 4]                                             ||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||-----------|-10^-10-8-10-10|8--8-----|--6-8/8/8/8-6h||
||3^(5)------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||[gtr 2]                                             ||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||-----------|---------------|---------|--------------||
||.----------|-----------5/6/|7--------|-------------.||
||.5---------|---------------|--5------|---------3/4/.||
||-----------|-----------3/4/|5--------|--------------||
||-3---------|---------------|--3------|---------1/2/-||

|:G    (C)     (Dm)  (F)  (C)  |G   (C) (Dm)(F)(C)|
|[gtr 4]                                          |
|--------------|---------------|--------|---------|
|8-6h8-6h8-6-5-|6--6-5-3---5-3-|5-3-----|-------6x|
|--------------|---------------|---3^---|---------|
|--------------|---------------|------5~|---------|
|--------------|---------------|--------|---------|
|--------------|---------------|--------|---------|
|[gtr 2]                                          |
|--------------|---------------|--------|---------|
|--------------|---------------|--------|---------|
|--------------|-----------5/6/|7-------|---------|
|5-------------|---------------|--5-----|---------|
|--------------|-----------3/4/|5-------|---------|
|3-------------|---------------|--3-----|--------8|

|C   F        |Eb    Bb   |C   F           |Gm          |
|[gtr 4]                                                |
|-------------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|------10-----|-8----6----|8~--------------|------------|
|-5-----------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|5---/10-----/|8----------|----------------|-----------7|
|-------------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|-------------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|[gtr 2]                                                |
|-------------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|-------------|-----------|----------------|------------|
|----x-10--x-8|8-8--------|---------10---10|12----------|
|10--x-10--x-8|8-8---8---x|10x10x10-10---10|12----------|
|10--x--8--x-6|6-6---8---x|10x10x10-8----8-|10----------|
|8------------|------6---x|8-x8-x8---------|-----------5|

|Am      D   |Am      D    |Am     D     |
|[gtr 4]                                 |
|------------|---5---------|-------------|
|------------|--5---8^(10)-|10^\-5-------|
|7^\(7)5-7--5|7^-----------|------7------|
|------------|-------------|-------5h7-7-|
|------------|-------------|-------------|
|------------|-------------|-------------|
|[gtr 2]                                 |
|------------|-------------|-------------|
|------------|-------------|-------------|
|--------7---|--------7----|-------7-----|
|7-x-7---7---|7-x-7---7----|7-x-7--7-----|
|7-x-7---5---|7-x-7---5----|7-x-7--5-----|
|5-x-5------5|5-x-5-------5|5-x-5--------|


|Bb      |              |G      |   (C)|(G)       |           (C)|
|[gtr 4]                                                         |
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|8------|------|----------|--6h8p6h8p6h8p|
|3-5--7--|10-9/----10---|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|1-3--5--|8--7/----8----|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|[gtr 2]                                                         |
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|8-10-12-|15-14/15-14/15|17--x17|x17--5|5---------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|6-8--10-|13-12/13-12/13|15--x15|x15--3|3---------|--------------|
|[gtr 3]                                                         |
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|
|--------|--------------|-------|------|From Who By Numbers, 1975
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1975 Fabulous Music Ltd.






==============
transcribed by                             Whotabs
litgo@aol.com          1997-10-01          www.thewho.net/whotabs
==============

capo on 3

F     Gm     Eb      Bb  Gm7   F

F                Gm
  I'm feelin' so good right now
          Eb                    Bb    Gm7         F
There's a handsome boy tells me how I changed his past
             Gm
He buys me a brandy
Eb                    Bb          Gm7      F
  Or could it be he's really just after my ass?
             Gm
He likes the clothes I wear
Eb                   Bb     Gm7      F
  He says he likes a man to dress in season
           Gm               Eb                Bb
But no one else ever stares, he's being so kind
Gm7           C-->
What's the reason?

[chorus]

C         G             Am    F
 How many friends have I really got?
                          G
 You can count 'em on one hand
C         G              Am     F        G
 How many friends have I really got?
C         G              Am     F
 How many friends have I really got?
     Bb   F        Bb   F           Bb   F/A Gm Gm7 C
That love me, that want me, that'll take me  as I   am?

Suddenly it's a silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out
Everybody hears me
Well, I look like a fool, now, if I try and I shy out
She knows all of my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who'll stay on late
But now I think I've reached the end
I wonder in the dead of night, how do I rate?

[repeat chorus]


Cm                 Cm/Bb
   It's all like a dream you know
            Bb                    F
When you're still up early in the morning
Gm                    F                   Eb
    And you all sit together to watch the sun come through
Cm                 Cm/Bb
  But things don't look so good
               Ab
When you could use a bit of warning
Fm                                    C/G                   G
  Then you know that no one will ever speak the truth about you.

[repeat chorus]

When I first signed the contract, it was more than a handshake then
I know it still is, but there's a plain fact
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs, I get the willies
People know nothing about their own soft guts
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known
How come they bum us up

[repeat chorus]

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In a Hand or Face | guitar tab
By The Who
>From Who By Numbers, 1975
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1975 Towser Tunes Inc.






==============
transcribed by                             Whotabs
litgo@aol.com      rev 2001-12-16          www.thewho.net/whotabs
==============

[Note: easiest to use trigger capo and shift to 5th fret for modulation
following interlude; same voicings, two frets higher]

First half              Modulation
Capo on 3               Capo on 5

C5      x35588          D5     x577 10 10
Bb      6tx3366         C      8tx5588
F       xx3565          G      x55787
Bbii    xx333x          Cii    xx555x
C       x3555x          D      x5777x
Csus4   x3556x          Dsus4  x5778x
Eb/C    x35343          F/D    x57565
F/C     x37563          G/D    x59785
Ab/C    x36544          Bb/D   x58766
Bb/C    x33366          C/D    x55588
Dm/C    x37765          Em/D   x59987

[intro]
|C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F|


|C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bbii C5 C5|

        |Bb                F      |C5
Ain't it funny how they're all Cleopatra
As you gaze into their past
When you find out about their birth sign
You realize there was no need to have asked
All the history of a soul in torment
Ingrained in a hand or face
Ain't it funny how they all fire the pistol
At the wrong end of the race

|C    C Csus4 C |Csus4 C    |

|Eb/C F/C  |Ab/C      Bb/C F/C |
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
|C    Dm/C |F/C     |
 I am going round...
               |C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bb F |C5  Bbii C5 C5|
Going round and round

There's a man going through your dustbin
Only this time he's looking for food
There's a tear in his eye you don't know him
Oh, but you know what he's going through
Is it weird that you can't seem to help him
Feeling sick as he staggers away
Is it weird that you hate a stranger
Can a detail correct your dismay

|C  C Csus4 C|Csus4 C   |

|Eb/C F/C  |Ab/C      Bb/C  F/C  |
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
|C    Dm/C |F/C            |[bass solo]|
 I am going round

[modulation]
|D5  C  G |D5  C G |D5  C G |D5   |

|C    G      |D5     |C    G      |D       |
    Round and rou-nd     Round and round
    Round and rou-nd     Round and round
    Round and rou-nd     Round and round
|C    G      |D5     |C    G      |D       |D Dsus4   D  Dsus4 D
      Round and rou-nd     Round and round

|F/D  G/D  |Bb/D     C/D G/D  |
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
|D    Em/D |G/D
 I am going round

|F/D  G/D  |Bb/D     C/D G/D  |
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
 I am going round and round
|D    Em/D |G/D
 I am going round

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