WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Manic Street Preachers - Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier Tabs | Ver. 1
Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
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CHORDS USED:
Most of the chords are barre, and I only used
flats in the chord names because I felt like it.
EADGBE
Bm: 224432 Am: 577555 A5: 577---
D6: -3-232 Bb: 688766 D5: -577--
D: --0232 Db: 446664 Db5:-466--
Em: 022000 Ab: 466544 Gb5:244---
F: 133211 C: 335553 Dbm:446654
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NOTATION:
^ = accented
s = sixteenth note
E = eighth note
Q = quarter note
H = half note
. = dotted note
x = muted
/ or \ = slide
b = bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
lr= let ring
|----|
|o--o|
|----| = repeat
|----|
|o--o|
|----|
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CHORD STRUMMING:
I'm not sure about the upstrokes and downstrokes, but for
the first part of the song it goes like this with each chord:
^ ^ ^ ^
sssssssssssEsss
(v-- It's really good)
Please buy the album or something and listen to
the song for exactness blablabla now the tab/chords.
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(acoustic comes in 30 seconds into the song)
Bm Bm
Bm D6
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
D Em
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
F Am Bb Db
Limited face paint and dyed black quift
Ab C
Overweight and out of date (repeat verse,
second time just play the C once and let ring)
Q E. s s s Q. (etc, play all power chords this way)
|---------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
|o--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------o|
|---------------------|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|--------------------|
|--7---7---x-7-x-7----|-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-6---6---x-6-x-6----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|
|o-7---7---x-7-x-7----|-5---5---x-5-x-5----|-4---4---x-4-x-4----|-4---4---x-4-x-4---o|
|--5---5---x-5-x-5----|--------------------|--------------------|-2---2---x-2-x-2----|
A- merican trilogy In Lancaster pottery
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so f**king funny don't you know
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes)
It's so f**king funny don't you know
Instead of the Db, you can instead play this:
E E E E E E E E E E E E H
|-4-4-----4-4-----|-4-4-------------|
|-----5-------5---|-----6-----------|
|-------4-------4-|-------6---------|
|-----------------|---------6lr-----|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
A5 D5 Db5 Gb5
American trilogy the future's dead fundamentally
Bb(lr) Gb5
It's so f**king funny it's absurd
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternative)
It's so f**king funny it's absurd
SOLO: (in the background )
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E E E Q E. s Q E E H+E s s s s E
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------|---------------4-|-----6--9-9b11b9-6-4-|-4lr-------/-----4h7-7-|
|---------------4-|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-4-------------------|-------------4h7-------|
|-5---7b9b7-5-7---|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
(|---------| faster than sixteenth)
Q Q. E E E Q Q. E Q s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Q Q E Q.
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
|----------------6-|-7---9b11b9-7-9--|-8h9p8p6-8p6---6----------------------|---------------------|
|-7---9b11b9-7-9---|-----------------|-------------9--------9h11-11b12b11-9-|-11--11--11-11lr-----|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------9s11-----------------|---------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------|
Bb(lr) Gb5
Bb(lr) Db (strum quarter notes, or do alternate)
Dbm(lr)
Twenty foot high on Blackpool promenade
