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- From: "patrick m. ryan" <pryan@access.digex.net>
- Subject: TAB: "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:20:33 -0500 (EST)
-
- Wicked Game
- Chris Isaak, from _Heart-Shaped_World_
-
- transcription by pryan@access.digex.net (patrick m. ryan)
- (formerly pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov)
-
- Notes:
- This song sounds great on a Strat. I figured out 99%
- of this song myself and confirmed my interpretation when I
- saw Chris Isaak on 'Saturday Night Live'.
- There are really two guitars in this tune. Isaak is
- strumming the rhythm on his acoustic while his lead guitarist
- does the melody work. Isaak plays the Bm A E progression
- through most of the song.
- In my notation, a row of tildes (~) means 'wiggle the
- tremelo bar'. '\' means slide down and '/' means slide up.
- The nice tremelo work along with a lot of reverb give this
- song most of its atmosphere.
- The intro riff is hard to notate. Basically, the sequence
- on the B string is: pick open string (B), bend tremelo down 1/2 step,
- hammer-on 7th fret (F#), release tremelo, pick 7th fret (F#), slide
- down to open string.
-
-
- intro
-
- (down 1/2) (back up) (slide) ~~~ (down 1/2) (back up) (slide)
- -----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
- -0----------7---------7\\-------0--|-0----------7---------7\\-------0--
- -----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
- -----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
- -----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
- -----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
-
-
- A ~~~~~~
- --------------------------|
- ---5----------------------|
- --6--7-6-4-----2---1------|
- -7-----------4---2--------|
- --------------------------|
- --------------------------|
-
-
- ~~~~
- -2----0-----------------------------
- ---3----3--2----0-------------------
- -------------4----4-2--1-----1-2-4-- o
- ----------------------2----2-------- o
- ------------------------------------
- ------------------------------------
-
-
-
- verse
- Bm A E (fill)
- ------------
- ------------
- ----2---1---
- --4---2-----
- ------------
- ------------
-
- Bm A E (another fill)
- ------------
- ------------
- ----1-2-4---
- --2---------
- ------------
- ------------
-
-
- lyrics:
-
- We were on fire
- No one could save me but you.
- Strange what desire make foolish people do
- I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
- I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
-
- No, I don't want to fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
- No, I don't want to fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
- With you
- With you
-
- What a wicked game to play
- To make me feel this way
- What a wicked thing to do
- To let me dream of you
- What a wicked thing to say
- You never felt this way
- What a wicked thing to do
- To make me dream of you
-
- And I wanna fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
- And I don't want to fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
-
- World was on fire
- No one could save me but you
- Strange what desire make foolish people do
- I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
- I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
-
- And I wanna fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
- And I wanna fall in love
- [This girl is only gonna break your heart]
- With you
- With you
-
- Nobody loves no one
-
-
-