Califone – Mean Little Seed Album – Quicksand/Cradlesnakes Open E tuning (easiest to do open-D: DAD#AD with capo on 2nd; tab relative to capo) *As with most Califone songs, as you play this main riff/melody, you also do a light strumming of the open strings to affect that open tuning drone, which I won’t painstakingly tab out here. Just play this riff and strum around until it sounds right. Intro/Verse (4x): E----------------------------------------------------------------------------| B----------------------------------------------------------------------------| G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E---10----5///9\\\----0h4------0h2--------------0----------------------------| B------------------------------------0h2-------------------------------------| E-------------------------------------------0--------------------------------| “Texas looks like Galilee, Cripple trees and mean little seed” Chorus (4x): E----------------------------------------------------------------------------| B----------------------------------------------------------------------------| G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E--------3h5--3--------------------0-------------0---------------------------| B----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E-----------------5/6\5------3bp0----------3bp0------------------------------| Verse riff (4x) “Today hung clearly fake only for your eyes Spit it out, James, take it all apart Waiting for the yellow bleed mustard from a crow Quiet quick violence Chorus riff (4x) Bridge: E-----------------------------------------------| B-----------------------------------------------| G#----------------------------------------------| E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0-------| B-----------------------------------------------| E-----------------------------------------------| Yeah, like shit on old money E-----------------------------------------------| B-----------------------------------------------| G#----------------------------------------------| E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0-------| B-----------------------------------------------| E-----------------------------------------------| yeah, can't wash it off E-------------------------------------------------------------| B-------------------------------------------------------------| G#------------------------------------------------------------| E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0---4\\\2p0-----------| B-------------------------------------------------------------| E----------------------------------------------------0--------|(ring heavy) Held like lice on a lion Then this slight variation on the verse riff (2x) E----------------------------------------------------------------------------| B----------------------------------------------------------------------------| G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E------10-----9-----5----7-----4\\2p0---------------0------------------------| B----------------------------------------0h2---------------------------------| E-----------------------------------------------0----------------------------| Chorus riff (4x) Bridge riff (2x) Well, stay quick and quiet now mmm, my mean little seed Held like lice on a lion Chorus riff (4x)