Toad The Wet Sprocket – Corporal Brown tab

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:51:58 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur" 
Subject: Tab: Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Corporal Brown"

Tab: "Corporal Brown" Toad the Wet Sprocket
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)


All guitars capoed at second fret

Intro: Guitars 1 and 2

     Cadd9/G (bass plays G)| |-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-----(0)-|| |------1--1----1--1----1--1----1--1----1--1----1--||*|--0---0--0----0--0----0--0----0--0----0--0----0--||*|--0---0--0----0--0----0--0----0--0----0--0----0--|| |--3---3--3----3--3----3--3----3--3----3--3----3--|| |-------------------------------------------------|


   Gadd6/A (A in bass)  Gadd6 (bass plays B)|-----(0)-----(0)----(0)--(0)---(0)----| ||--3---3---3---3--3---3/5--5--5--5--5--| ||--0---0---0---0--0---0-0--0--0--0--0--|*| Play this 9 times|--0---0---0---0--0---0-0--0--0--0--0--|*||--5---5---5---5--5---5----7--7--7--7--| ||--------------------------------------| |

Notes in parenthesis are played only by guitar 2, and only after the
second repeat

Verse:

   Am7|---------------------------------||--1--1--1--0---------------------||--0--0--0--0--------0h2p0-----0--| Guitar 2 plays for the verse|--2--2--2--2-----2---------2-----||---------------------------------||---------------------------------|


corporal brown was tall, boy!
and liked to go and fish
corporal's wife was quite fat
and was a raving bitch


Pre-chorus:

   Em7      Asus4    G        Dsus2|--0--0--|--0--0--|--------|--0--0--||--3--3--|--3--3--|--3--3--|--3--3--||--0--0--|--2--2--|--0--0--|--2--2--| Guitar 1 plays these chords,|--2--2--|--2--2--|--0--0--|--0--0--| Guitar 2 plays the same|--2--2--|--------|--------|--------| chords, but muted, and in|--------|--------|--3--3--|--------| eighth notes


Em7 Asus4 G   Dsus2 Em7 Asus4 G
and i'm a bit drunk as  i     watch
Em7  Asus4 G       Dsus2 Em7 Asus4
they are   yelling loud, he  throws a punch


Chorus:Guitar 1 plays the same chords from the intro,Guitar 2 plays this over all the chords|------------------||--1p0-----3p0-----||-------0-------0--||------------------||------------------||------------------|

Cadd9/G  Gadd6/A   Gadd6
oh lord, what am i gonna do?


|----------------------------------||--1--1--1--0----------------------||--0--0--0--0-----2b(3)r2p0-----0--| Before the verse, guitar 2|--2--2--2--2----------------2-----| plays this variation on the|----------------------------------| verse riff three times|----------------------------------|


Verse:
corporal brown was quite scared
when he looked down at her
corporal's wife was quite dead
so he carried her...

Prechorus:
and took her outside
dug a grave and placed her inside
i was amazed

Chorus:
oh lord, what am i gonna do?

(repeat variation of main riff 4 times,
ending on second to last note)