Drivin With The Breaks On


Artist: Del Amitri Song: Drivin' With the Breaks On Album: Hatful of Rain Transcribed by: preston Email: crazym0f0@satx.rr.com I noticed that Taborama doesn't have any Del Amitri songs tabbed out here, so i decided I'd write this one. This has to be one of my favorite songs of all time. On your C and Am chords, you're going to have to hammer-on and pull-off with your first finger on the B string. Listen to the song to see what I'm talking about. Easy rythem. ======================= Capo: 3rd Fret (All chords relative to Capo) If you're lazy, here are the correct fingerings... C Am F G e|-3---3---4---6 B|-4---4---4---3 G|-3---5---5---3 D|-5---5---6---3 A|-6---3---6---5 E|-3---3---4---6 ======================= Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone Intro: C C Driving through the long night Am Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong C C Now the kid has gone. I sit belted up tight. Am C She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on. F G And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks C Am F And said come on, let's go home. But she's got the wheel. G C And I've got nothing except what I have on. C When you're driving with the brakes on. Am When you're swimming with you're boots on. F G It's hard to say you love someone C And it's hard to say you don't. C Trying to keep the mood right, Am trying to steer the conversation from C C The thing we've done. She shuts up the ashtray Am C and I say "it's a long way back now, hun." And she just yawns. F G And we might get lost someplace so desolate that C Am F no one where we're from would ever come. But she's got the wheel. G C And I've got to deal from now on. C When you're driving with the brakes on. Am When you're swimming with you're boots on. F G It's hard to say you love someone C And it's hard to say you don't.Elec. Gtr./Dist. Tone C Am F But unless the moon falls tonight, Am F C unless continents collide. Am F G Nothing's gonna make me Am F G break from her side.Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone C When you're driving with the brakes on. Am When you're swimming with you're boots on. F G It's hard to say you love someone Am F G And it's hard to say you don't. F G It's hard to say you love someone Am C <--- Strum once(End.) And it's hard to say you don't. ==