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Violets Are Blue Tabs

(ver. 1)
The Killing Tree
Tuning: Drop D standard

This tab is a little complicated, but if you know how the song goes, it isn't too hard.

Intro/Verse: Part 1

|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|----5----------3-----------|
|-3--5----------3-----------|
|-3--3----------1-----------|
|-3-----00000---------------|

Verse part 2:
For this part, you can either just do
an open E (actually tuned to D) or use this:

|-------| Then after a couple seconds, |---------------|
|--3----| the guitar plays:            |---------------|
|--2----|                              |---------------|
|--0----|                              |-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-|
|-------|                              |-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-|
|-------|                              |-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-|

Chorus:                      After 2nd time      2nd guitar
"I'll have you know"                          (pinch harmonics)
|-----------------------|   |--------------|    |-----------|
|-----------------------|   |--------------|    |-----------|
|-----------------------|   |--------------|    |---8-8-----|
|-00-666-333-5-6-5-3----|2x |--33-66-------|    |-----------|
|-00-666-333-5-6-5-3----|   |--33-66-------|    |-----------|
|-00-666-333-5-6-5-3----|   |--33-66-------|    |-----------|



Play verse part 2 again.

"Never... The sun..."
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-0000-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-------|
|-0000-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-------|
|-0000-6-5-3-5-6-5-3-------|

Repeat parts accordingly to the song.

"Look away, from this broken mirror"

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|----------------------8b-----------|
|-000-00000-555-3-5-6---------------|
|-000-00000-555-3-5-6---------------|
|-000-00000-555-3-5-6---------------|
  ... .....


I call this next part the "interlude": "Now, the time has come, to slow the beating of this heart":

|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|-----87787777877887778778777787787777---------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|--0~---------6~------3~------------------12/--|

Repeat the chorus

"Outro"
|---------------|
|---------------|
|---------------|
|--0~-33-66-----|
|--0~-33-66-----|
|--0~-33-66-----|

End on: (pinch harmonic this note and bend)
|----|
|----|
|-8b-|
|----|
|----|
|----|
            
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