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Tuning: E A D G B E
Sweetheart’s on the barricade Richard Thompson Album: Industry Transcribed by Arjan Nijk This beauty is not in the Richard Thompson songbook collection, and the available transcriptions seem way off, so here is a shot at a more accurate rendering. Tuning: EBDGBE (5th string to B) Noteworthy Chord shapes: Bm Ddim(B) Em F# F+ e|---2---|---1---|---0---|---2---|---2---| B|---3---|---0---|---0---|---2---|---3---| G|---4---|---1---|---0---|---3---|---3---| D|---4---|-------|-------|---4---|---4---| A|---0---|---0---|---0---|-------|-------| E|-------|-------|-------|---2---|---2---| Intro (this is probably not 100% exact but close): Bm Ddim(B) Em N.C. e|----------2---2-----|-------1---1---1-----|-------0---0---0----|-6-7-2-3-0-2-------------| B|----------------3---|-----0-----------0---|-----0--------------|-------------3-0-2---0-2-| G|------4-----------4-|---1---1---1---1---1-|---0---0---0---0----|-6-7-2-4-0-2-------3-----| D|----4-----4---4-----|---------------------|--------------------|-------------4-0-2---0-2-| A|-0------------------|-0-------------------|-0----------------0-|-------------------2-----| E|--------------------|---------------------|--------------------|-------------------------| Bm F#(F+) e|------------------| B|------2-----3---2-| G|------3-----3-----| D|----4-------4-----| A|-0----------------| E|----------2-------| Basic picking pattern: Fill 1: Fill 2: e|---------------------------| |------0--2-3--2-0-| |--------------------| B|------3---------2----------| |------------------| |-0----0--2-3--2-0---| G|------4---------3----------| |----0-0--2-4--2-0-| |------0--0-0--0-0---| D|----4----4----4---4---etc.-| |------------------| |----0---------------| A|-0-------------------------| |------------------| |--------------------| E|-----------2---------------| |-0----------------| |--------------------| [Verse]
They Bmclosed up the F#sooty gates of BmAyres and CompanyEm Bm F# Em (fill 1) We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me We Bmblocked the street, Emnow the lorries Ddim(B)come and turn about There's Gnothing getting in there and there's nothing getting out
[Chorus]
Oh, she's Djust a tender Gthing She's Drisking life and Glimb Bm A G (fill 2) My sweetheart's on the barricade My Dheart it skips a Gbeat There'll be Dfighting in the Gstreet Bm A G (to F# bass) But hungry folk forget to be afraid Em F# Bm Ddim N.C. Bm F#(F+) (as intro, without the Em) My sweetheart's on the barricade
Second verse and chorus as before; end chorus as follows: Bm for two bars, to A on the fourth quarter note of the second bar ...barricade [Bridge]
DShe's running leaflets through the Aalley DShe's passing hymn books at the Arally F#Halleluiah!
[Solo]
BmendF# chBmoruEms on Bm (four bars)
Breakdown:
GFriends and neighbours, won't you join the cause DDrill it in the tiny minds of them that make the laws GThat workers are human, we're really just the same E7We've got to have the nourishment to fill a human frame
[Chorus]
Oh, we're Bmpeople not a Gmob And we Bmonly wants a Gjob My Bmsweetheart's Aon the barriGcade We've Bmhad it up to Ghere Too Bmnumb to feel the Gfear My Bmsweetheart's Aon the barriGcade My Emheart it skips a F#beat There'll be Emfighting in the F#street Em F# Bm Ddim(B) Em N.C. Bm-maj7(quasi; see below) My sweetheart's on the barricade
Final notes: e|-----------6-| B|---0-3-----3-| G|-------6---6-| D|-------------| A|-0-----------| E|-------------|