Girlyman guitar chords/tabs/music

[zuki]

I love the song "Right Here" but I can't figure it out and I can't find the chords anywhere!!!! Help!!!
... please

[florence]

RIGHT HERE it is!

Capo 1

verses:
G Em C C G Em C C

refrain:
G D Em C G D Em7 C (C)

bridge:
Em C G Em C B7 D (run down c b a)

if you want it with lyrics & chords, pm me with your email and I'll send it to you!
~f
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[ledisnomad]

I'm a new fan of Girlyman and I started learning St. Peter's Bones, but I'm having a hard time working out the picking pattern. If anybody has figured it out and would like to share, that would be great!

I'll be working on it, so if I figure it out first, I'll share it, too.

Thanks!

[florence]

Hi ledisnomad
For St. Peter's Bones, they use a Travis Style picking pattern which basically has the thumb alternating on the down beat and the fingers filling in around. I'm sure there are examples on youtube. the TAB would look like this: (capo 7 playing G chord <3 2 0 0 3 3>)

----------------------------
-----------------3---------
-----------0----------0----
--------0----------0------
---------------------------
3------------3------------
T____T_ I_T_M_T_I_

The chords for the verses are:
G D
Em D
C G
D

The chorus is:
Em C G
Em C D
G D G/B C
G D G

The bridge is:
Em C G
C G D
Em C G
C D

Hope this helps! It's a great song!
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[ledisnomad]

Thank you, Florence! Very helpful indeed, especially to know that it is the Travis pattern. I'm starting to familiarize myself with common techniques and knowing the official names makes it easier to find resources.

Cheers!

[Miz Black Crow]

I've loved this song since I first heard it... it's haunting and beautiful and makes me shiver. Played at Capo 4 (album version).

Am -- F -- Am -- C-G

A cold [Am] crash
of [F]metal and gears, grip the [Am]
as I [C] sit right [G] here
Did she get [Am] away
the [F] ghost of a deer
am I [Am] in this [C] all a-[G]-lone?

Well I'm [F] nine, singin' [Am] Carols at [G] Christmas
I am [F] trying, to make [Am] sense of your [G] tenses
I know a [F] word, but not the [Am] rest of your [G] sentence
There is [C] nothing I can [G] do
Because I [C] don't understand [G] you...

Am -- F -- Am -- F

Always felt like I was walking a maze
No one told me to go right or left
Blue or red, what colors disguise me
So I look like all the rest?

Well I'm nine...

Your [F] eyes never change their [C] watchful gaze
on the [F] TV set, they're [C] already
a [F] day ahead in the [Am] east
Can an [F] island mean more than [Am]me....? (go back to Am-F-Am-C-G)

So there you are, standing with people like you
It seems I've never seen you laugh like you do
I count the ways I could have been more like you
You....

Well I'm nine...


Note: I actually prefer playing this without capo, by barring the chords... In that case, the progression becomes D#m -- A (barred) -- D#m -- E (open)-B. Of course, capo'd you can easily transpose... To each their own.

[kitterytide]

I've been obsessed with this song ever since I first heard it at a show last fall. There are a lot of different chords but it's actually pretty simple, easy to figure out where the chord changes go. The same four progressions repeat three times in order over the course of the song, but I'm copying the whole thing in case anyone doesn't have the lyrics...

Eb- 668886
Eb7 - 668686
Ab- 466544
G#m- 466444
C#- 446664
F#- 244322
F#7- xx4320
(not all the chords in the song, any others can be looked up if you don't know them)

Standard tuning, Capo 4th fret

Fm Bb Eb Ab
Fm Bb Eb Eb7
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
You were rolling out Easy Bake Ovens and tires
Another whole day on the Bucks county plain
Clouds rolling in, it’s feeling like rain

G#m C# F# B
G#m C# F# F#7
Back in the yards and the woods by the pool
The leaves were on fire when I came home from school
Singing a song that I wrote in myself
Singing that I could be something else

Bm E A D
Bm E A A7
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
I was sitting there watching on half-buried tires
Scratching on sidewalks with fingers and stone
Waiting for time, feeling alone

Dm G C F
Dm G C C7
Taking out pins in the cushions inside
The rain falling down on the telephone wire
Falling farther and farther away

Fm Bb Eb Ab
Fm Bb Eb Eb7
Those were the days of the model airplanes
Shooting up rockets for neighborhood fame
You on the ground, the remote in your hand
I was sinking on down, my feet in the sand

G#m C# F# B
G#m C# F# F#7
The rock and roll babysitter’s tales
Of nights with the boys running off of the rails
They’d spend the whole night on abandoned farms
Burning up in each other’s arms

Bm E A D
Bm E A A7
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
You were setting those Easy Bake Ovens on fire
I was carving my name on the chalkboard with nails
Waiting for somebody else to be there

Dm G C F
Dm G C C7
Outside the dim suburban homes
With their lawns full of ashtrays and their buckets of phones
Ringing off mothers in houses all day

Fm Bb Eb Ab
Fm Bb Eb Eb7
Back then we had to be cool
But nobody taught me the rules
So I just wrote it all down
On the inside of my fast food paperboard crown

G#m C# F# B
G#m C# F# F#7
Riding bikes before I learned about brakes
Around and around those cul-de-sac lanes
The teens rolling by in their giant green cars
Driving like rain, they were kissing like stars

Bm E A D
Bm E A A7
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
You were building those Tinkertoy castle empires
Melting your crayons over tables of flame
I was feeling alone, I was feeling insane

Dm G C F
Dm G C F C F C*
Dad took a picture on August the nine
Of us with the newspaper and the headline:
“Ford Steps Up; Nixon Resigns”

*note on this last one, instead of ending on C7, play back and forth on C and F a couple times.

I'm 99% confident this is all right but please let me know if you have any other ideas. Good luck! Enjoy!

[zaph]

Awesome work on the chords for such a beautiful song. I played through it tonight after having the track on pretty much continuous repeat for the last two days, and the chords sound good.

And while it doesn't need this to sound good, there's a half-step walk down in each verse at the beginning of the third line:

[balthus]

hi all, i'm new here and playing guitar... so i was wondering if it was possible for someone to write out young james dean because the explanations given have been a bit difficult for this novice to follow... also strumming patterns/ideas to any would be awesome!
thanks!

and thanks so much slipjig for your write ups- they're great!

[slipjig76]

Hey Balthus,

I think the easiest way to do YJD is to leave the guitar in regular tuning, no capo, and use the following chords: G, D, Em, C.



... G......D.... G.... D............G
In the back of a camoflage truck


.....G ....... D............G.......D..........(lowest string only, fret 5 then 7, then 8,then 10. repeat 4x........
They locked me in once, with the material


all the way through this line too.........)
I was full of a rage no one could handle



G...D..Em......C
I was a private

G......... D...Em....C
In the ar............my

G..............D......Em............... C
All the real girls, with their backs turned


G..................D............Em............C......G...........D.....Em..........C
Called me cra..............a............zy, called me cra a azy


(then do that 5,7,8,10 thing again)




Then its just the same chord structure for the following stanzas as the first stanza, and the same chords for each chorus. Hope that makes sense. Feel free to ask for clarification. Have fun!

[slipjig76]

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[Larue]

Capo on 4th fret

The walkdowns are crucial to getting those beautiful bass guitar notes along with the chords. Feel free to correct!


..................C.......................F
I don't hear wind up in the trees (walk down to bottom E open)


............Dm (walk down to 3rd fret of the A string).....G
Nothing stirs........ those.........ancient......................leaves


..........C.........................................Am
And I don't know what begins it, the growing of the vine

......Dm...........................................F
The deep descending pattern of the wrinkling of time

.............G......................................F....................C
Like that little plastic flowerpot still sitting on the stairs

...............G....................................................F..................C
Holding a dead bougainvillea from last year's burst of repairs

..................G......................................... F......................C
And all the fences we built then are still holding in the dogs

.............G...................F..................C
Of our love, of our love, of our love.....

**********

C F
Every old place and every old time

Dm G
I thought I knew my haunted mind

C Am
Thought I'd picked through every longing a million years ago

Dm F
At night I dream I'm flying down an endless open road

G F C
But our old Toyota is still frozen in the mud

G F C
How I begged you to leave it on the street during the flood

G F C
And how it sank further in the more we graveled and dug

G F C
Our love, our love, our love.....

******instrumental break

C F
Outside it's warm, the first of Spring,

Dm G
The opening of everything

C Am
And this is what we wanted, a place to settle down

Dm F
But nothing can prepare you for the gravity of ground

G F C
And our old foundation is so settled in its way

G F C
And I've got less baby and less to say

G F C
And all the paint and rearranging never seems to stir the dust

G F C
Of our love, of our love, of our love

G F C
Of our love, of our love, of our love.

[fafolguy]

Could any of you guitar geniuses post Wherever You Keep? I LOVE singing this song with my friends and would love to be able to play it for them...
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[zaph]

I think I've finally got this one worked out. I've never seen them play it (have they ever?) but these chord shapes sound right, so I think the capo position is correct. Let me know if something sounds weird (or Ty, if you're reading this, let me know if I completely butchered your beautiful song)

Capo 4, standard tuning