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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:29:50 +1300
From: ROGER CURL
Subject: CRD:G/Grant_Lee_Buffalo/Arousing_Thunder.crd
Song : Arousing Thunder
Artist : Grant Lee Buffalo
Album : Copperopolis
Transcribed by : Geoffrey Nickles
For this song you will need to detune your guitar down
1/2 a step: eb bb gb db ab eb
The intro of the song is D and Dsus4 with the
following riff played over the top it four times:
D Dsus4 D
e—–2-3–2—- X 4
b—3———3-
g-2————-
d—————
a—————
e—————
Then the first verse starts
(with intro riffx2 played over the top)
Em G D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
Maybe the rain’s holding off,
Em G D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D (I’ll just refer
Surely it knows, we’re down here to this as
D riff now)
Em G D riff
Walking ’round barefoot lost
Em A
Pretty soon these clouds have got to clear
G D A
I know it’s a lot
G D A
Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop
G D A
For a second so I could coax you to talk
(There could be a very quick G in here, I’m not sure)
Em ^ D riff
Em G D riff
Think when we first layed eyes
Em G D riff
Didn’t know who you were and then I was one more passerby
Em G D riff
You were the girl in the entryway, thats all that I knew but
Em A
You were still in school and I was insecure
G D A
I know it’s a lot
G D A
Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop
G D A
For a second so I could coax you to talk
A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m D riff D riff
About your dreams and orange soda tea leaves, tv, more….more
(If you don’t like all the changes above you can just strum the F#m
the whole way though til ‘more’ but it doesn’t sound as good)
Em G D riff
Looks like the rains holding off
Em G D riff
Might as well take this slow
Em G D riff
You know sometimes when I hold you in silence I listen real close
Em A
Then I hear you talking to my soul
G D A
Well I know it ain’t half
G D A
of this story I’m only meaning to ask
G D A D riff D riff D riff etc
Just what would it take to coax you to laugh? To laugh, To laugh To laugh
Em G D riff
Em G D riff
Em G D riff
Just play G over the following lines
What would it
What would it D
What would it take you to laugh?
Repeat the above twice, then
I’m not too sure on the ending but I’ll give it a go
G Em
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
G Em
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
G Em D
Na na na na na na na
Then play D (plus the riff a few times) till
the end.
A couple of the chords:
D sus4 F#m
e-3- e-2-
b-3- b-2-
g-2- g-2-
d-0- d-4-
a-0- a-4-
e-x- e-2-
If you have any comments or corrections or just let me know someone’s
using this tab e mail me at [email protected] 🙂
