The Flying Club Cup is a website featuring live versions of all the songs from Beirut’s album, “The Flying Club Cup”. The videos, by La Blogothèque and The Take Away Shows, are filmed in various places around Brooklyn, NY. Really incredible.
From Happy Webbies. These guys and gals are rock stars to people like me.
Cooking Alone from Matthew Gruman on Vimeo.
Found on my hard drive (late 2007). This is what I do when I’m alone.
Photo Credit: ChartAttack.
Gordon Downie
Into The Night
*note* It sounds more like the record if you make the C chords as 8th fret barres (8 10 10 9 8 8), or add a high G (x 3 2 0 1 3).
F
I saw you running with your friends
G
I called your name too loud - 'come back'
F
so many times it might have been embarrassing
G
if you hadn't come walking back
C
F
Here's where I shook you by the shoulders
G
shoved you up against a truck - 'what's up'
F
it was a picture of someone getting older
G
and of someone growing up
C
A C
someone growing up
A C
someone growing up
A G
someone growing up
C
F
it was like you were in disguise
G
you were so nonchalant - 'come on'
F
as though your well half-lidded eyes said,
G
'what the hell do you want?'
C
F
Well I must've said something
G
for you to feel I was alright - 'alright'
F
We had a great conversation
G
that went on well into the night
C
A C
went on well into the night
A C
went on well into the night
A G
went on well into the night
C
went on well into the night
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
Photo Credit: Pregnant Without Intercourse.
The intro part of this is very jangly, so just bash at the strings with your heart’s desire.
Gordon Downie
11th Fret
*note* For the intro, play the E5 as x799xx and the Emaj7(no 3rd) as x798xx.
Don't worry about hitting the open strings, it sounds good if you just bang at it.
Intro:
E5 Emaj7(no 3rd) E5 E5
A E
So this is fucking off by degrees and
A E
I suppose we turned out to be not-quite-Hawaii but
A B
I can float back to sleep cause at least you're lying to me like
A
music that dances from glowing apartments as
E
shadows entwine into a creamy darkness like
A
jewelry hung down from rich silhouettes
E B
portrays on the sidewalk where wetness reflects all the
A
colours of evening and the onset of lights
B E
like the promise of nothing, sweet nothing, tonight.
B
Ahhhhh
C E C E C B
E
A E
So this is enacting ecstasy and
A E
I suppose we turned out to be bathroom graffiti but
A B
I can float back to sleep cause at least you're lying to me like
A
shoveling hope into the infinite us til the
E
world surges in yelling, 'this is a drug bust'
A
might turn up the heat and make us into one person
E B
but then the temperature plunges and the predicament worsens
E
til we're a fleck of new snow on the eyelash of a cow
B
and we melt away, melt away,
E
now
B
Ahhhhhh
C E
C E
Melt away melt away now
C B
Melt away melt away now
Melt away now
E
*During the bridge, you can play this as the lead:
g|-5-7-9-11-12-11-12-14-16-|
It is repeated 3x with a variation at the end
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
Still unsatisfied with static music videos, the Arcade Fire have gone and made another incredible interactive video for their new single, “Black Mirror”.
Avi Boxer was a Montreal East-end poet who flourished during the 1950′s literary foment alongside A.M. Klein, F.R. Scott, Louis Dudek, Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen.
An email came to me at work about an incredible collection of photos, The Avi Boxer Archives, made available through Véhicule Press. The picture above is Al Purdy, Margaret Atwood, and Avi himself. Visit the site for more.
Photo Credit: WikiMedia.
Ron Sexsmith
These Days
Capo IV
Intro: G C
G
Promises are made to be broken
C
Haven't you heard?
G
He said he'd never break your heart
C
Now haven't you learned?
D
You believed in the words
C
In all that they meant
D
Oh, but love is not some popular song
C D
Filled with empty sentiment
Am D
That's what passes for love
Am D
That's what passes for love these
G C
Days
G C
Oh these days
G
It won't take a miracle, darlin'
C
Just keep it real
G
This world can make us cynical, darlin'
C
I know how it feels
D
You took it to heart
C
What they said on the screen
D
Oh, but love is not just playing a part
C D
In some very scripted scene
Am D
That's what passes for love
Am D
That's what passes for love
Am D
That's what passes for love these
G C
Days
Am D C
No one can complete you or make you whole
G
Well
Am D
But love will come to greet you half way
C G C
Though the streets are never paved with gold
G
Promises are made to be broken
C
Haven't you heard?
G
He said he'd never break your heart
C
Now haven't you learned?
D
You believed in the words
C
In all that they meant
D
Oh, but love is not some popular song
C D
Filled with empty sentiment
Am D
That's what passes for love
Am D
That's what passes for love
Am D
That's what passes for love these
G C
Days
G C
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
I’ve spent the past couple of days “reclaiming” the tabs I’ve put on the ‘net over the past few years. I could not find this one ANYWHERE. The only sites that had it indexed had removed it due to copyright restrictions. Luckily, I found it on the old Windows machine. This is a really great song.
Photo Credit: Hip Museum.
For the intro part, I just play octaves (i.e. for E I play x7x9xx, D is x5x7xx, etc.)
The Tragically Hip
Stay
E D C B A G \
F F C / x2
F C
You did the best that you could do.
G
You were a great crew,
F
who tried to nurture and preserve your
G
faith in you.
F C
And with the bureau chiefs
G
and the shrugging spies
F G
You could stay, but why.
G
Am
You see a light and then another
F
and everything you fought for
C
naught's uncovered.
You're not a fighter, you're a lover.
Am
You got no business in here, brother
F G
so... stay.
Stay.
E D C B A G C
E D C B A G \
F F C / x2
F C
Is it the worst that you could do?
G
You were a great you,
F
who tried to nurture and preserve your
G
faith in you
F C
and with the bureau chiefs
G
and the shrugging spies
F G
you could stay and why.
Am
Cause you see a light and then another.
F
Everything you thought you
C
sought's uncovered.
You're a fighter and a lover
Am
and there's no one up above her
F G
so ...stay.
Stay.
E D C B A G C
F C
F
All things being balanced,
C
it's balanced and called balancing
F
somewhere beyond everything it's being
balanced not for the
C
sake of balance but balancing between
the throes of learning
Bb
and the entire thing
C
entirely
Bb
balancing.
E D C B A G C
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
About five years ago, Dany introduced me to this song. He was just learning to play guitar and asked if I could figure it out for him. “Sure” I said, “give me a few days”.
About a year later, I was listening to the song and, overcome with guilt, tabbed this out. Dany never learned how to play it, but it’s one of my favourites now.
Photo Credit: Pitchfork.
This is done on a 5-string banjo with some heavy droning on the G string (the small one at the bottom that’s pegged halfway up the neck). You’ll be safe if you just let it ring out the whole time.
Buck 65 Indestructable Sam Drone String: Be sure to let the G drone string ring throughout the song to get the proper sound Riff 1: d|-------------------------------------------- B|---------1^3-----------3^1------------------ G|-0-0-0^3-----0-0--0^3-------3--0----0-0-0^3- D|-------------------------------------------- g|-------------------------------------------- ------3^5-3^5-3^5---------- -1^3--3---3---3---3\1------ ------------------------3-0 --------------------------- --------------------------- Riff 2: d|--3^5-----3^5-3^5---3^5-3^5-----3^5-3^5--------- B|--3---------3---3---3---3-------3---3----3\1---- G|---------------------------------------------3-0 D|------------------------------------------------ g|------------------------------------------------ Lyrics: Well this here's the story of Samuel Donbay A man like any other at the end of a long day Guts and muscles and maybe a little more He worked as a grave digger after the civil war Miles around competition burned with the deepest rage The work was hard and Sam did it for the cheapest wage Seemed that the other Man's shoes didn't fit him When he was out working the others were out to get him They called him indestructible Sam, He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands That's right, they called him indestructible Sam He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands Diggin' all day Sam's pockets got richer But the others were wishing he was out of the picture So late one night some of the competition went to see Doctor Beauregard a local magician They asked if he could help put things in reverse They pooled all their money for a fifty dollar curse Next morning at work was a commotion Digging a grave Sam heard an explosion Followed by a moaning, cursing and mumbling From the nearby bushes a figure came stumbling Sam shrugged his shoulders and surveyed the damages Later Dr Beauregard was seen wearing bandages Worse for wear he wasn't taking suggestion Said he'd hex anyone that asked him any questions The coast wasn't clear trouble kept lurking The others kept scheming and Sam kept working They called him indestructible Sam, He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands That's right, they called him indestructible Sam He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands The other gravediggers lamented their blown chance Decided to take matters into their own hands Thoughts full of poison and making a trap They blew up the shed where Sam was taking a nap The others were astonished and totally annoyed Cause Sam walked away while the shed was destroyed Next they tied him up and they were sure that they got him when they threw him in a lake and watched him sink to the bottom Below and behold and to the others dismay Sam was back at work again the very next day They burned his house down to the ground they were possessed And when that didn't work they finally shot him in the chest So hold your head low and fly the flag half mast But it was actually Samuel who had the last laugh He recovered again, lord be praised He lived to be a hundred and dug the others graves They called him indestructible Sam, He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands That's right, they called him indestructible Sam He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands And he did They called him indestructible Sam, He promised he would die with a shovel in his hands That's right, they called him indestructible Sam And he died with a shovel in his hands And this is an even true song It was wrote on account of old Sam workin' so hard And I reckon that's how it 'ought to be Tabbed by Matthew Gruman http://matthewgruman.com Lyrics from: http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858660636