Buckley Jeff - Thats All I Ask Tabs

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That's All I Ask

This is another try at my previous effort for the song "That's all
I ask." I have written this for a band to play so it has the bass,
Second Guitar and Main Guitar in it. I suck at drumming so the 
drummer will just have to guess.


Intro
-----

I've worked a bit on this. The first bit is the finger picking
and the second is the chord progression after the finger picking.

e|-------------------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------------------
G|-------7-------7/------9/--11\---------4\----4\----2-----2---
D|-----0---0---0---0---0--------0------0-----0-----0---0-----0-
A|---7-------7-------7/----9/-----12\5\----4\----2-------2-----
E|-0-----------------------------------------------------------

e|-------------------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------------------
G|-7----------9--11-4-4-2---7---9---11---5---7---9---4---7-9-12
D|-0----------0--0--0-0-0---0---0---0----0---0---0---0---0-0-0-
A|-7----------9--12-5-4-2---7---9---12---5---7---9---5---7-9-12
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

After this go straight into the verse full bore.

Verse (Bass/Guitar)
------------

Listen closely to the CD for the rhythym. Its a updown updown 
strum. You can probably heara boppy strum in the background. 
Im pretty sure thats just the bass guitar and maybe another 
guitar playing a bassy tune. I figure this because Jeff allways 
had Michael Tighe playing guitar somewhere.

I'm not a bass player, but im quite sure the bass line is  

G|-------------------------------------------------------------
D|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

or something along that line. Okay, without poking sh*t on all
bass players, bass REALLY IS important in this song! The guitar 
part would probably be

e|-------------------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------------------
G|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-----------------------------
D|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

that. Im about 90% with these chords. If you have better ones then 
for gods sake send them to me. As for the main part, it goes a bit
like this:

e|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------------------------
B|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------------------------
G|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-------------------------------
D|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-------------------------------
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------------------

Hit the bottom (lowest pitch) string occasionally. Well thats about
the sum of it.

Breaks / Chorus
---------------

I refer to this part as a break because theres no words until the 
end.

As for the breaks in the song, you just have to crazy like a mofo
with a progression I believe to be:

e|-7---9---12---x---0----0---7---9---12---x---0----0---15------
B|-7---6---12---7---10---8---7---6---12---7---10---8---15------
G|-7---7---9----7---9----7---7---7---9----7---9----7---0-------
D|-5---7---12---7---7----5---5---7---12---7---7----5---14------
A|--------------5---9----7----------------5---9----7-----------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

The second time you play the break, i think the second guitar plays
it as well.

Finale
------

Big finale needs to be bashed out pretty hard.

e|-0---12---12-14--7-------------------------------------------
B|-8---12---0--0---7-------------------------------------------
G|-7---9----12-12--6-------------------------------------------
D|-5---12---0--0---4-------------------------------------------
A|-7--------12-12--5-------------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

In all the song is divide into these parts:

Intro
Verse
Break
Verse 
Break
Finale

Lyrics are as follows: (New lines are where chords changes are, I hope)

Don't try and blow out the sun for me,
Baby,
I'm not hopin for what I know cant be,
All that I ask,
Is for a kiss each day,
And I'll give you love you that will never,
Go away.....

Yes I will,
Yes I will,
Yes I will,

Cos girl,
I wouldn't ask you to lift up the strength,
To the world, little baby,
I know that you not that kind,
Of a girl,
All that I ask,
Is for a kiss or two,
And nothing in this world,
Will be too good for you,

Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, Nobody
Nobody, Nobody Knows,
How deep my love for you goes,

Never mind now in your heart how much is owed, (repeat this for a while)

Cos girl,
I want you to know,
I wouldn't ask you to hold back the light of dawn,
That's just a little too much to ask of anyone,

All that i ask,
Is for your loving ways,
And i'll keep you happy,
For the rest of your natural born days...

Never mind now in your heart how much is owed, (repeat this again until neccesary)



In true Jeff style, "Thankyou."

Hamish Cruickshank
Tasmania, Australia