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--- tabs:going_to_alaska [2007/05/14 18:20]
carnac44
+++ tabs:going_to_alaska [2021/08/24 21:42] (current)
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-<code>
-Taboo VI: The Homecoming - Going To Alaska
-D A G D A  D G D A  D A D
-D                G
-The jacaranda are wet with color,
-        D                            A
-and the heat is a great paint brush, lending color to our lives,
-     D                                G
-to the air, and to out faces; but I'm going to Alaska
-              D                         A
-where there's snow to suck the sound out from the air.
-Dsus D
-D       G
-Up, yes, in the branches,
-D                       A
-the purple blossoms, go pale at the edges;
-         D                              G
-there is moaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces
-D                           A
-of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong,
-D                                    G
-and their limbs were more like wires. Now they are cables.
-D                           A                    D
-thick and alive with alien electricity, and I am going to Alaska,
-     G                         D
-where you can go blind just by looking at the ground,
-A
-where fat is eaten by itself
-Dsus                         D
-just to keep your body warm.
-D                         G
-Because from where we are now, it seems, really,
-    D                           A
-that everything is growing in a thousand different ways;
-D                                        G
-that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives
-D                                           A
-who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise
-D                                G
-to what is happening. Or can you tell me otherwise?
-     D                          A
-I am going to Alaska, where the animals can kill you,
-        D                     G
-but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them,
-        D                         A
-then it really won't matter. I am going to Alaska.
-Dsus                                D
-They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes.
-D G D A
-D G D A... D... D down D up!
-</code>
 <code>
 edited by Mike/carnac44@gmail.com
 Taboo VI: The Homecoming - Going To Alaska
-this is the album version. the above version is tabbed from the WFMU set.
 For live versions, in standard tuning either go with above or:
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 G                       D
 the purple blossoms, go pale at the edges;
-         G                              C
+        G                              C
-there is moaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces
+there is meaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces
 G                           D
 of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong,
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 </code>
+<code>
+Taboo VI: The Homecoming - Going To Alaska
+This version is tabbed from the WFMU set.
+D A G D A  D G D A  D A D
+D                G
+The jacaranda are wet with color,
+        D                            A
+and the heat is a great paint brush, lending color to our lives,
+     D                                G
+to the air, and to out faces; but I'm going to Alaska
+              D                         A
+where there's snow to suck the sound out from the air.
+Dsus D
+D       G
+Up, yes, in the branches,
+D                       A
+the purple blossoms, go pale at the edges;
+         D                              G
+there is moaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces
+D                           A
+of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong,
+D                                    G
+and their limbs were more like wires. Now they are cables.
+D                           A                    D
+thick and alive with alien electricity, and I am going to Alaska,
+     G                         D
+where you can go blind just by looking at the ground,
+A
+where fat is eaten by itself
+Dsus                         D
+just to keep your body warm.
+D                         G
+Because from where we are now, it seems, really,
+    D                           A
+that everything is growing in a thousand different ways;
+D                                        G
+that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives
+D                                           A
+who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise
+D                                G
+to what is happening. Or can you tell me otherwise?
+     D                          A
+I am going to Alaska, where the animals can kill you,
+        D                     G
+but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them,
+        D                         A
+then it really won't matter. I am going to Alaska.
+Dsus                                D
+They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes.
+D G D A
+D G D A... D... D down D up!
+</code>

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