Elliott Smith – Half Right tab

Half Right, Elliott Smith
Tabbed by Aaron Eisenberg
aaron.m.eisenberg@gmail.com
9/30/2007

Tuned a full step down

E--->DB--->AG--->FD--->CA--->GE--->D
Intro:
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--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
then
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Elliott begins the verse as he picks the 2nd half of this:--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
Verse:
"...well I pictured somebody else..."--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3------------|---0---0---0----6---6---6-------------|-2---2---2----------------------------|--------------0---0---0---------------|--------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
"...got in you and ripped out the seams..."--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8-8------------|---0---0---0----6---6---6-------------|-2---2---2----------------------------|--------------0---0---0---------------|--------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
Bridge:
---------------------------------------|-8-8-3-3-2-2---------------------------|-5-5-0-0-2-2---and then something------|-5-5-2-2-2-2---------------------------|you'll have to ask-5-5-0-0-0-0---------------------------|Elliott how to play...---------------------------------------|
(1:41)"...he was a sucker"--------------------------------------|--8-8-8-8-8---------------------------|--------------------------------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|-5---5---5----------------------------|--------------------------------------|
...which brings you back to the verse pattern again:
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--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
"with a broken sink for a face":--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8-8------------|---0---0---0----6---6---6-------------|-2---2---2----------------------------|--------------0---0---0---------------|--------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------|--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|---5---5---5--------------------------|----------------5---5---5-------------|-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|--------------------------------------|
Bridge II is something like this:(2:19) "...its already half past"--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-4-4-4-4------------------------------|-5-5-4-4-7-7-3-3----------------------|-5-5-2-2-7-7-3-3----------------------|-3-3-2-2-5-5-1-1----------------------|
(2:31) Play the intro and verse progression again as if the song were starting over. No more surprises.
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