Meat Puppets – The Whistling Song tab

Band: Meat Puppets
Song: The Whistling Song
Album: II
Year: 1984

Intro

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Verse


F                        Ab
It's the shadow in the dark

F                       Ab
It's the silver in the park

F                 Ab
It's the broken, faded bird

                         Eb	 F
you've learned to call your heart

                         Ab
it’s not a border that you can see

F
just as plain as you or me

                      Ab
I can't throw the lock back

Eb                 Db   F
and I don't have the key

Bridge

(Guitar 1 plays chords)
  
  AGuitar 2(whistling)E|-----------------|----------------|B|-------------10--|8----------8-10-|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|
 
 Bb                 Fe|-----------------|-5--------------|B|-6----------6----|----------------|G|--------------7--|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|

  F                 Ae|-----------------|----------------|B|-------------10--|8----------8-10-|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|
 
  Eb                Gb(9th position)e|-----------------|-5--------------|B|-6----------6----|----------------|G|--------------7--|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|

  F(8th position     Ebe|-----------------|----------------|B|-(improvise)-----|----------------|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|

  Bb		 		              Fe|-----------------|----------------|B|-----------------|----------------|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|

Eb		 		              Bbe|-----------------|----------------|B|-----------------|----------------|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|

  F                       e|-----------------|----------------|B|-----------------|----------------|G|-----------------|----------------|D|-----------------|----------------|A|-----------------|----------------|E|-----------------|----------------|
 
Verse

F                Ab
It hovers in the living room

F               Ab
just above the door

F                     Ab
it whistles while it hangs there

                          Eb   F
feathers dripping from every pore

                              Ab
they show the spectacle of falling

Eb               Db  F
and settle to the floor

                             Ab
they show the spectacle of falling

Eb               Db   F
and settle to the floor


(play the bridge again, then solo over the verse progression)