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Artist: Beck
Song: Tropicalia
Album: Mutations
Tabbed by: DJ
1st Feb 2015
Best played fingerstyle, the thumb playing the bass notes,
and the other fingers pluck upwards in a syncopated latin rhythm.
The top string is not really played.
Bm7 = x24232 G#m7 = 464444
Bm7/F# = 224232 C#9 = x4344x
G7 = 353433 F#m7 = 242222
Bb7 = x13131 B9 = x2122x
A7 = x02020 E7 = 020130
F#7 = 242322
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[Intro x2]
Bm7 Bm7/F# G7
e |--------------------|-----------------------|
B |---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G |---2--2-----2---4---|---4----4--4----4------|
D |----------------3---|---3----3--3----3------|
A |---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E |---------2------3---|---3----3--3----3------|
Bm7 Bm7/F# G7
e |--------------------|-----------------------|
B |---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G |---2--2-----2---4---|---4--4----4--4----4---|
D |----------------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|
A |---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E |---------2------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|
[Verse 1]
Oh, when they Bm7beat Bm7/F# ...upon a brG7oken guitar,
And all the stBm7reetsBm7/F#, they reek of trG7opical charms,
The embas - sBm7ies Bm7/F# ...lie in hG7ideous shards,
Where toBb7urists snore and de - A7cay!
[Verse 2]
Oh, when they dBm7ance Bm7/F# ...in a repG7tile blaze,
You wear a Bm7mask, Bm7/F# an equa - tG7orial haze into the Bm7past,Bm7/F#
A coG7lonial maze, where there's Bb7no more confetti to tA7hrow!
[Chorus]
G#m7 You wouldn't C#9know what to say to your - G#m7self,
Love is a poC#9verty you couldn't F#m7sell,
Misery wB9aits in vague ho - tE7els ...to G7be evict - F#7ed!
[Break]
| Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / | Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / |
[Verse 4]
You're out of lBm7uck, Bm7/F# you're singing fuG7neral songs...
...to the sBm7tuds, Bm7/F# they're ana - bG7olic and bronze,
They seem to sBm7trut Bm7/F# ...in their mil - leG7nnial fog,
Till tBb7hey fall down and de - fA7late!
[Chorus]
G#m7 You wouldn't C#9know what to say to your - G#m7self,
Love is a poC#9verty you couldn't F#m7sell,
Misery wB9aits in vague ho - tE7els ...to G7be evict - F#7ed!
[Break]
| Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / | Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / |
[Verse 6]
Bm7 Bm7/F# Oh, and nG7ow you've had your Bm7fun,
Bm7/F#Under an G7air-conditioned Bm7sun, Bm7/F# it's buG7rned into your eBm7yes,
LBm7/F#eaves you pG7lain and left be - hBm7ind, Bm7/F#
I'll sG7ee them rise and fBb7all ...into the jA7aws of a pestilent G#m7love!
[Chorus]
You wouldn't C#9know what to say to your - G#m7self,
Love is a poC#9verty you couldn't F#m7sell,
Misery wB9aits in vague ho - tE7els ...to G7be a vic - F#7tim!
[Coda - Repeat and end on Bm7]
||: Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / | Bm7 / / /Bm7/F# / | G7/ / / / :||