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--- tabs:new_britain [2008/05/31 18:03]
lincolnic Updated to be in the same tuning as the record.
+++ tabs:new_britain [2021/08/24 21:42] (current)
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+=====New Britain=====
 <code>
-"New Britain"
+Transcribed by Jon A. and Rosa
-The Mountain Goats
-Full Force Galesburg
-Transcribed by Jon A.
-Tuning: DADGAD, capo 1
+Note on the tuning: This song sounds a half-step higher on the record, but John was kind enough to confirm that
+it's meant to be played in straight up DADGAD. You can put a capo on the first fret if you want to play along
+with the record.
-Notes on the tuning: On the record, the guitar is tuned a half-step sharp of DADGAD. (The strings from low to high are Eb/Bb/Eb/Ab/Bb/Eb.) The easiest way to get into this tuning is get your guitar in DADGAD (tune the B string and both E strings down a whole step) and put a capo on the first fret. I don't know if John uses a capo on the record, but it's easier on your guitar to tune three strings down than to tune three strings down and three strings up.
+DADGAD Tuning:
-For what it's worth, in the recording of the only time this was played live, John's guitar was tuned down a half step for the entirety of the show, so when he tuned down to play this song it was actually a half step lower than DADGAD (and a whole step lower than the record).
+D5:            000200
+Bsus2:         x24444
+Csus2:         x35555
+D7:            000230
+Gsus2:         500000
+Gsus2/F#:      400000
+Gsus2/E:       200000
-All chords written relative to the capo.
+Standard Tuning:
-D: 000200
-B9(no 3rd): x24444
-C9(no 3rd): x35555
-D7: 000230
-Gsus2: 500000
-Dadd4/F#: 400000
-A7sus4/E: 200000
+D:             x0023x
+Bsus2:         x24422
+Csus2:         x35533
+D7:            x0021x
+Gsus2:         30003x
+Gsus2/F#:      20003x
+Gsus2/E:       00003x
-D
+D5
-B9(no 3rd)                             C9(no 3rd)
+Bsus2                                Csus2
     You've had it up to here with my west country talk
-        D
+        D5
 You can hardly understand a word I say
-B9(no 3rd)                             C9(no 3rd)
+Bsus2                                Csus2
     The shortest tree around here is a hundred feet tall
-D
+D5
     It's gonna rain today
-B9(no 3rd)                         C9(no 3rd)
+Bsus2                              Csus2
-D                                  D7             D
+D5                                 D7             D5
 I try and tell you secrets 'til my face turns blue
@@ Line 40: / Line 47: @@
 Lining up along the country's length again
-Gsus2                   Dadd4/F#    A7sus4/E
+Gsus2                   Gsus2/F#    Gsus2/E
     This morning I know
-             D
+             D5
 Who you are
 This morning I know
@@ Line 61: / Line 68: @@
 Who you are
-Gsus2               Dadd4/F#    A7sus4/E
+Gsus2               Gsus2/F#    Gsus2/E
-D7     D            D7          D
+D7     D5           D7          D5
-Gsus2               Dadd4/F#    A7sus4/E
+Gsus2               Gsus2/F#    Gsus2/E
-D
+D5
-Gsus2               Dadd4/F#    A7sus4/E
+Gsus2               Gsus2/F#    Gsus2/E
-D
+D5
-Gsus2               Dadd4/F#    A7sus4/E
+Gsus2               Gsus2/F#    Gsus2/E
-D
+D5
+</code>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-New Britain
-by The Mountain Goats
-tabbed by Jonathan Bliss
-      and Andy Moskowitz
- Intro:Eb
- G Ab
- you've had it up to here with my west country talk
- Eb
- you can hardly understand a word i say
- G Ab
- the shortest tree around here is a hundred feet tall
- Eb
- it's gonna rain today
- G Ab Eb
- G Ab
- i try and tell you secrets 'til my face turns blue
- Eb
- i am not getting through to you
- G
- all the way across the ocean
- Ab
- they're gathering their strength again
- Eb
- lining up along the country's length again
- Ab Bb Eb
- this morning i know who you are
- this morning i know who you are
- on the river, the sun is bright gold
- and the things you try to say to me make my blood run cold
- but i hold you anyway, and we stare into the sun all day
- and you're about to leave again
- i've learned to read your movements
- and i'm learning how to read your mind
- the sun climbs the sky for us above the mississippi
- and i feel you in my arms, but you're hardly even with me
- this morning i know who you are
- this morning i know who you are
-</code>

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