Yo La Tengo - The summer
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Artist: Yo La Tengo
Song: The Summer
Tabbed by: case_s
Tuning: Standard - EADGBe
There's a version already on ultimate-guitar for this song, but I felt that a few chords and the solo might have
been off, and I also really like this acoustic version from a show in the late nineties in Sydney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcnSsxNIuI
So, I decided to tab this version out. Hope you like it, it's my first tab!
Since I'm trying to put some theory behind my playing, I'm pretty sure the song is in the key of D#m, and
the solo/riff is built off of a C# Major scale with a flattened octave on the first note! These goofy goofs,
they sure know what they're doing.
F# C#
F# C#
F# On darkened C#streets tonight
F# I see a C#simple time
F# I see the C#warning light
And the G#msummer comes unBdone
F# No sorry C#closing eyes
F# No cutting C#down to size
F# No other C#thoughts arise
And the G#msummer comes unBdone
RIFF:
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F# On darkened C#streets tonight
F# I make a C#wrong turn right
F# Take in the C#lonely site
And the G#msummer comes unBdone
RIFF:
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F# I won't C#wait
F# I won't C#have to
F# I just C#waste my time aG#mlone B
RIFF:
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F# A#m
'Til the G#msummer comes unBdone
F# A#m
'Til the sG#mummer comes unBdone
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'Til the sG#mummer comes unBdone
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F#(End with one strum on the F#)