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- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:34:00 -0800
- From: enthalpy@ix.netcom.com (Chris Fargis )
-
- Song: Paperback Writer
- Artist: The Beatles
-
- I prefer to play the opening like this:
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- e:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
- B:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
- G:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
- D:---------5-----3---------------------------------------------------|
- A:---3--5--------------3-----3--5------------------------------------|
- E:3-----------3-----3-----3------------------------------------------|
-
- It sounds better than the open strings in the previous posting. Just
- a thought...
-
- -C
-
- E-Mails to ChrisF3569@aol.com
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- From: mikel@mail.freenet.hut.fi (Mikko Laaninen)
-
- I think it was on 'Rubber Soul'? Don't know for sure.
- Well, here it is, with the first bit tabbed:
-
-
- Paperback Writer
-
- by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
-
- It took almost 30 years to get this song on a computer :-)
- (Original written in 1966, I wrote this on 01.01.1995)
- Yip, it's the best two-chord song I've ever heard...
-
- This is the intro bit:
-
- e----------------v-----------------v
- B----------------v-----------------v
- G-------0--------v-----------------v
- D---0-3-----0-3--v---------0---3---v
- A----------------v---3-------------v
- E-3--------------v-3-----3---------v
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-
- And the complete lyrics & chords:
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-
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- Paperback writer...
-
- G7
- Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
- It took me years to write, will you take a look
- It's based on a novel by a man named Lear
- C
- And I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer
- G7
- Paperback writer
-
- G7
- It's a dirty story of a dirty man
- And his clinging wife doesn't understand
- His son is working for the Daily Mail
- C
- It's a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer
- G7
- Paperback writer
-
- G7
- It's a thousand pages, give or take a few
- I'll be writing more in a week or two
- I can make it longer if you like the style
- C
- I can change it 'round and I want to be a paperback writer
- G7
- Paperback writer
-
- G7
- If you really like it you can have the rights
- It could make a milion for you overnight
- If you must return it you can send it here
- C
- But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer
- G7
- Paperback writer
-
- G7
- Paperback writer...
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-
- And I'll send this to Nevada, too :-)
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- _/_ _ _/ _/ Mikko T. Laaninen
- _/_/__/_/ _/ e-mail: mikel@freenet.hut.fi
- _/ _/ _/ _/___ phone: +358-0-557266 (_Don't_use_this_please_)
- _/ _/ _/___/ Any opinions expressed herein are probably mine.
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