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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk T H E P E R S O N Y O U A R E by John Wesley Harding from the album "The Name Above The Title" Key: G major ~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRO: G D C D (D) Em I put my forehead to the door G D I heard the famous sound of infidelity Em Looks like I've loved and lost once more G D Oh, but all's fair in love and war, supposedly C I couldn't even burst in on you G D See scrabbling sheets or your excuse C G D Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE C D | Hurt the person you are? / RIFF A: G D C D G D C D (D) Em I slammed my glass down on the bar G D My problems, they hit the floor so gracefully Em I don't know where I parked the car G D That's okay; tonight I'm on the town without me C Tonight it's just me and my evil twin G D The one who slips one more drink in C G D The one who slips away when I start sinking G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE C D | Hurt the person you are? / G D They hurt the person you are C D The person you are G D The person you are C D The person you are RIFF B: G D C D G D C D (D) Em Got a job to pay the rent G D Put people out of work by repositioning Em Now no-one's sitting on the fence G D Whose garden will we end up sitting in? C It's getting much to hard to heal the sky G D It stings too much to open up our eyes C G D To fundamental truths that we hold as lies G C G Why do you do what you do \ C G | When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING FOUR TIMES C D | Hurt the person you are? / G D They hurt the person you are C D The person you are G D The person you are C D The person you are G D C D G D C D G The person............... person............... person...... yeay. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OUTRO ON LEAD GUITAR -- T H E E N D -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L E A D G U I T A R T A B S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I N T R O~~~~~~~~~ G D C||-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8---|||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8---------------|||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9---------------------|||--S----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|||--T----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .D|-------------------------||-------------------------||--7----------------------||-------------------------||-------------------------||-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R I F F B~~~~~~~~~~~ G D C|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------||--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .D G D|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-||--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------||--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------||-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .C D|-------------10-----8----|-------- ----------------||--------8----------------|--7--7--R----------------||--9----------------------|--7--7--E----------------||-------------------------|--------S----------------||-------------------------|--------T----------------||-------------------------|-------- ----------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .O U T R O~~~~~~~~~ G D C|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------||--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .D G D|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-||--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------||--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------||-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .C D G|-------------10-----8----|--------------7----------|--7---------------------|||--------8----------------|--------8----------10----|--8---------------------|||--9----------------------|--7----------------------|--7---------------------|||-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|||-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|||-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .O P T I O N A L R H Y T H M G U I T A R P A R T F O R R I F F A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Normally played on piano) ^ G ^ D ^ C|--------3----------------|--------2----------------|-------------------------||--------0----------------|--------3----------------|--1----------------------||--------0----------------|--------2----------------|--0----------------------||--------0--------------0-|-------------------------|--2----------------------||--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-|--3-----2-----0----------||--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|--------------------3----| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .D ^ ^ h G ^ D ^|--------2-----0--2-------|--------3----------------|--------2----------------||--------3-----3----------|--------0----------------|--------3----------------||--------2-----2----------|--------0----------------|--------2----------------||--0----------------------|--------0--------------0-|-------------------------||-------------------------|--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-||-------------------------|--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------| 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .^ ^ C D|-------------------------|--2------------------------| This section was|--1----------------------|--3------------------------| invented by me|--0----------------------|--2------------------------| around the part|--2----------------------|--0------------------------| played with the|--3-----2-----0----------|---------------------------| piano at this|--------------------3----|---------------------------| point in Wes's 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . recording.Notes: * `^' means downstroke, `h' means hammer-on. * In the 4th bar of this section, the 3rd beat and it's half-beat can either be played using the hammer-on to the treble note as shown above (in which case the chord on the 3rd beat becomes Dsus2), which is one of my personal favourite colourings, or the normal D fingering can be retained, with a downstroke on the 3rd beat and an upstroke on the following half-beat. * Don't worry unduly about playing only those strings shown in the tabs when doing downstrokes with your plectrum or thumb. In particular the C chord strums are shown with the treble-E string not played, but this isn't always easy to get right, so don't worry, be happy :-) * A reasonably flexible but reasonably firm pick/plectrum is best if you want to do this riff (IMHO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G E N E R A L N O T E S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. If you are playing solo, then the most important thing is to keep up the rhythm and chords, so you can forget the lead guitar solo parts. I like to use the last 4 bars of the OPTIONAL RHYTHM PART FOR RIFF A as my intro, and obviously stick to the RIFF A after the first verse, using it again after the second verse, where the recording has RIFF B. In place of the OUTRO, I just strum the chords of the rhythm guitar part, allowing the words (person... person... person... yeay) to hold the flow of the ending, and then finish with a flourish. 2. As always, learn the rhythm of the song from the recording. 3. Enjoy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C H O R D S ~~~~~~~~~~~ G chord D chorde||---|---|-o-| G e||---|-o-|-----| F# B||---|---|---| B B||---|---|-o---| D G||---|---|---| G G||---|-o-|-----| A D||---|---|---| D D||---|---|-----| D A||---|-o-|---| B A||---|---|-----| A E||---|---|-o-| G E||---|-x-|-----| either use thumb on 2nd fret or don't play bass-E stringC chord Em chorde||---|---|---| E e||---|---|-----| E B||-o-|---|---| C B||---|---|-----| B G||---|---|---| G G||---|---|-----| G D||---|-o-|---| E D||---|-o-|-----| E A||---|---|-o-| C A||---|-o-|-----| B E||---|---|---| E E||---|---|-----| E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .