--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep the Clock around - Belle & Sebastian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Belle & Sebastian Sleep the Clock around (1998) From: "The Boy with the Arab Strap" A beautiful song with a lot of different elements creating layers that are hard to reproduce on a guitar. In this tab I tried to include some of the notes from the e-piano, the synth, and the bagpipes. If you don’t want any of that, just use the plain chords. The original is in E. To play the song without the capo in its original key, transpose this tab up 2 steps. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- capo: 2nd fret play: D key: E --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PATTERN (E-piano)

^D1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ^A1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|0-2---2---------|----------------|2-0---0---------|----------------| B|3-3---3---------|----------------|3-2---2---------|----------------| G|2-2---2---------|-------%--------|2-2---2---------|-------%--------| D|0-----0---------|----------------|2-----2---------|----------------| A|----------------|----------------|0-----0---------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| ^Bm1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ^G1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|0-2---2---------|----------------|2---------------|----------------| B|3-3---3---------|----------------|0-3---3---------|3-----3---------| G|4-4---4---------|-------%--------|0-0---0---------|0-----0---------| D|4-----4---------|----------------|0-0---0---------|0-----0---------| A|2-----2---------|----------------|----------------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------|3-----3---------|3-----3---------|

INTERLUDE 3 / OUTRO

^D1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ^A1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|----------------| G|2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-|-------%--------|2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-|-------%--------| D|0---0---0---0---|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|----------------| A|----------------|----------------|0---0---0---0---|----------------| E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| ^Bm1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ^G1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|----------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----------------| G|2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-|-------%--------|2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-|-------%--------| D|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|----------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----------------| A|2---2---2---2---|----------------|----------------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------|3---3---3---3---|----------------|

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS E-A-D-G-B-e Bbdim x-1-2-3-2-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO (fade in) | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | VERSE

And the ^Dmoment will come when composure returns Put a ^Aface on the world, turn your back to the wall Then you ^Bmwalk twenty yards with your head in the air Down the ^GLiberty Hill, where the fashion brigade Look with ^Dcurious eyes on your raggedy way And for ^Aonce in your life you've got nothing to say And could ^Bmthis be the time when somebody will come To say, "^GLook at yourself, you're not much use to any^Done"

INTERLUDE | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | VERSE

Take a ^Dwalk in the park, take a valium pill Read the ^Aletter you got from the memory girl But it ^Bmtakes more than this to make sense of the day Yeah, it ^Gtakes more than milk to get rid of the taste And you ^Dtrusted to this, and you trusted to that And when you ^Asaw it all come, it was waving the flag Of the ^BmUnited States of Calamity, hey! After ^Gall that you've done, boy, I know you're going to pay

INTERLUDE 2 | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | VERSE

In the ^Dmorning you come to the ladies salon To get ^Aall fitted out for The Paperback Throne But the ^Bmpeople are living far away from the place Where you ^Gwanted to help, it's a bit of a waste And the ^Dpuzzle will last until somebody will say "There's a ^Alot to be done while your head is still young" If you ^Bmput down your pen, leave your worries behind Then the ^Gmoment will come, and the memory will ^Dshine

INTERLUDE 3 | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | A Bbdim | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | A | A Bbdim | | Bm | % | G | % | VERSE

Now the ^Dtrouble is over, everybody got paid Every^Abody is happy, they are glad that they came Then you ^Bmgo to the place where you've finally found You can ^Glook at yourself, sleep the clock a^Dround

OUTRO | D | % | A | A Bbdim | | Bm | % | G | % | D Sleep the clock around | D | % | A | A Bbdim | | Bm | % | G | % | D Sleep the clock around | D | % | A | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | Asus4 | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | Asus4 | % | | Bm | % | G | % | | D | % | Asus4 | % | | Bm | % | G | % | (repeat and fade)

Belle & Sebastian - Sleep the clock around