John Wesley Harding – Lovers Society tab

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 d8P"      "Y8b, ,d8P"      "Y8b
dP'           "8a8"           `Yd    Kiss / Lovers' Society
8(              "              )8    ======================
I8                             8I    Track 13 from the live album
 Yb,                         ,dP    "It Happened One Night" by
  "8a,                     ,a8"    John Wesley Harding   [L-FIEND CD 137]
    "8a,                 ,a8"
      "Yba             adP"    Transcribed by Ryan Harding 
        `Y8a         a8P'
          `88,     ,88'    "Kiss" is by Prince, "Lovers' Society" is by
            "8b   d8"				  John Wesley Harding
             "8b d8"
              `888'
                "


Kiss [Prince]
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      A
	Better not talk flirty mama,

	Know how to undress me.

	Better not talk dirty mama,

	That won't impress me.
     [A      B     C      C#    D] D
	You don't have to watch Dynasty

	To have an attitude.
     [D  C#   C       B   A]    A
	Just leave it all up to me, yeah

	My love is gonna be your food    (OK gonna sing this)

                              E
	You don't have to be rich to be my girl
                              D
	You don't have to be cool to rule my world
                             E
	Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
			D			{12th fret trebles}
	Just want your extra time and your

	(I only did that so I could do that bit!)
{12th fret trebles}
		     KISS!


Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]
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C  Am  C  Am  C  Am  C

Am              C     Am          C               Am            C         Am   C
  Well they're taking minutes to do what takes me hours at the Lovers' Society
Am             C            Am             C      Am           Em              F
  Well they're handing out tenders for new ivory towers at the Lovers' Society
Dm                   G7           C         Cmaj7         Am
  And the chairman's so together --- drinks coffee from a lover's cup
Dm             G7                    C       Em               F     C
  It's always lovers weather --- if Finn and Esse would just button up
     F            Em           Dm
  He doesn't need sugar --- we all know why
            F            Em              G
  When he's planning the broken hearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!


  C          Am      C       Am
  I wanna belong and I wanna be
  Em                  F    G
  Part of the Lovers' Society
  C          Am      C       Am
  I wanna belong and I wanna be
  Dm                  F     G
  Part of the Lovers' Society
                 C         Am        C     Am
  They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
                 C         Am        C
  They shouldn't mess with me


Am           C          Am                 C        Am           C         Am  C
  Well they talk about things that do not make my agenda at the Lovers' Society
Am        C          Am    C        Am            Em              F
  The committee are emotional big spenders at the Lovers' Society
Dm               G7            C               Cmaj7    Am
  They've always got a quorum --- they love to love  to always agree
       Dm                 G7                 C        Em     F      C
  But this is the lovers' famous forum and they've excluded cynical me
        F           Em       Dm
  They say it's paranoia and I've got to pay time
          F            Em            G
  But I think it's paranormal that they're so blatant... They're so blatant!


  C          Am      C       Am
  I wanna belong and I wanna be
  Em                  F    G
  Part of the Lovers' Society
  C          Am      C       Am
  I wanna belong and I wanna be
  Dm                  F     G
  Part of the Lovers' Society
                 C         Am        C     Am
  They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
                 C         Am        C   Am    C  Am    C
  They shouldn't mess with me


Am     C           Am            C            Am             C         Am   C
  Casanova and Don Juan talking turkey in the corner at the Lovers' Society
Am         C              Am               C        Am           Em
  Sylvia Plath and Mrs. Browning they just go for a sauna at the Lovers' Society
F                      G              C      Cmaj7   Am
  I'm standing at the lover's keyhole   with half  a bottle of Beck's
F                      G                C      Em       F      C
  'Cause it sure felt cold and lonely, suckin' my thumb in the annexe.
   F                 Em       Dm
  You should see the archives on the shelf,
         F           Em         G
  Proves every lover just loves him or herself,
                                         G7
  Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!


  C           Am              C              Am
  I'm vaguely bitter, 'cause they've written me
  Em                      F         G
  Out of the text of the Lovers' Society
  C          Am      C       Am
  I wanna belong and I wanna be
  Dm                   F    G
  Part of the Lovers' Society
                  C        Am       C     Am
  They shouldn't mess with me, .... No!
                  C        Am       C     Am
  They shouldn't mess with me .... (Nah!)
                  C        Am       C     Am       Em    F  G  C
  They shouldn't mess with me .... No!


			-----oooooOOOOOooooo-----

Thanks to jgreen@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu for the heart posted on an ascii art
newsgroup  and  Nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca  (Normand  Veilleux)   for   doing   the
anti-aliased version which Scarecrow posted on rec.arts.ascii and I edited.

Chords
======

CHD    E A D G B e
-------------------
 A    [0 0 2 2 2 0]
 D    [x 0 0 2 3 2]  or  [2 0 0 2 3 2]
 E    [0 2 2 1 0 0]

 C    [0 3 2 0 1 0]
 Am   [0 0 2 2 1 0]
 Em   [0 2 2 0 0 0]
 F    [1 3 3 2 1 1]
 Dm   [x 0 0 2 3 1]
 G7   [3 2 0 0 0 1]
Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]
 G    [3 2 0 0 0 3]

BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A B C C# D]

At the end of KISS, {12th fret trebles} uses a single finger (index or middle)
to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or  maybe  4  are  played
with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.


Notes
=====

1. The first part of Kiss  is  played  in  bass-strum  style,  but  I  haven't
   included the bass notes, only the chords.

2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I
   expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.

3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let
   me know.  "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded,  syllable-wise,
   like what Wes sings.  It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the
   famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song.   Perhaps he
   is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of  the  word
   would come together.

4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able  to  get
   hold of the original CD.

5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for  email  address)
   or to request tabs for songs.  If you have a favourite  JWH  song  you'd
   like me to have a go at, let me know.   I now have the four full albums,
   "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night",  "Why We Fight" and
   "Here Comes The Groom".  If I haven't got the songs,  I  could  only  do
   them if you send me an audio tape with them on.  If you could  work  out
   the lyrics, that would be a great help.  The songs  I've  tabbed/chorded
   so far are:
	From "The Name Above The Title":
		I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
		Save A Little Room For Me
		The People's Drug
		The Person You Are
		Long Dead Gone              } lyrics supplied by
		Backing Out                 } Alan Pulliam - thanks
	from "It Happened One Night":
		Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
				            - thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
		Kiss/Lovers' Society
    and from "Here Comes The Groom"
		The Red Rose And The Briar  } thanks to Patrick Barnett
    and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
		When The Sun Comes Out      } thanks to Patrick again

   These are archived on the guitar tab archives,  ftp.nevada.edu  and  its
   mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local  mirror  sites  by
   using a program such as "archie".   Cal Woods  &  Jim  Carson,  the  new
   maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
   archie searches.  It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive".   You  can  find
   the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

   unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

   Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

       Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
              FILE -r--r--r--         80  Jun 16 09:21  Nevada.Guitar.Archive


   Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin  (ftp.maths.tcd.ie)  has  also
   uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
	/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

   In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is  a  copy  of  Crystal
   Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy  James  and  the  Chandelles  (sp?)
   which appears on "The Name Above The Title".  There doesn't appear to be
   a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

7. Enjoy!


Regards,

Ryan Harding

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Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC
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"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
 - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"
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