Greedy

 #----------------------------------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. # 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## 
 # 
  
 Date: 9 Feb 1996 13:53:12 +0000 
 From: "Boulton, Nic"  
  
   
 Subject: /h/Boo Hewerdine/Greedy.tab 
  
  
 Greedy (Boo Hewerdine) 
 ---------------------- 
  
 This is on Boo Hewerdine's third album, Baptist Hospital. It's played in A 
 (capo at 2nd fret). All the below is written as though played in G (at the 
 nut), so if you're playing with a capo at the 2nd fret, remember to play the 
 TAB sections two frets higher than written here. 
  
  
 [Intro] : 
  
 G -------------------------0------------------------------------- || 
 D -----4-p-2--4----2-h-4------4--2-p-0---------------------------.|| 
 A ----------------------------------------3-----2--0-------------.|| 
 E -0--------------------------------------------------3----0----- || x 2 
  
                 Em                   C 
 You can call me greedy        coz I keep a piece of me 
                 Em                       C 
 You can call me greedy        there's a place you'll never see 
                          Am                        G + 
 where the lights are all out  and the door stays slammed 
                  Am             G+6  B 
 if that's being greedy,              that's what I am 
  
  
 [repeat the intro] 
  
  
               Em                         C 
 You hate me changing          it's the change you can't control 
               Em                        C 
 You hate me changing          and the wandering of my soul 
               Am                         G + 
 searching the storm           for some frozen calm* 
                  Am            G+6 B 
 if that's being greedy             that's what I am 
  
  
 [instr.] : 
  
 repeat intro, then : 
  
 e --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 B --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 G --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 D ------------------------------------------7------9------------| 
 A -------5--7--7-----5---(5/)7------9--10-----------------------| 
 E ----7--------.--------7---------------------------------------| 
  
      (Em)   (D)  (Bm) 
 e ---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 B ----------------------------------------0----------------------------| 
 G -------------------------------0------2---0--------------------------| 
 D ----/14---/12---/9---7---5---4-----2--------------0--2--------2--4---| 
 A ---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 E ---------------------------------------------0------------0----------| 
  
 (Remember this is written in G, so move it up 2 frets if you're playing in A) 
  
  
 [repeat first verse] 
  
 [repeat intro and ad lib guitar to fade] 
  
  
 EADGBe 
 022000 - Em 
 X32010 - C 
 X02210 - Am 
 320003 - G 
 X20003 - G/B 
 XX0000 - G+6 
 X24442 - B 
  
 / is a slide up 
 h is a hammer on 
 p is a pull off 
  
 Strumming early on in the verse is the bass strings only, heavily damped by 
 your right hand resting on the bridge (almost so it sounds like a bass drum). 
 As the verse goes on bring in progressively more and more of the higher 
 strings. 
  
 + This G could be G/B?or even another chord with B in the bass, although B 
 major, minor and their 7ths don't seem to fit. 
  
 * This could possibly be 'frozen qualm' (had it come from kd's clouds??), but 
 I also heard someone singing 'searching the storm for some frozen corn', which 
 has got to deserve a place in rock's list of classic misheard lyrics alongside 
 Elvis Costello's 'she is washing up the dishes, oh-oh don't get cute' and Jimi 
 Hendrix's "s'cuse me while I kiss this guy" ! 
  
  
 Here's the instrumental section in A (i.e. exactly what you play if you're 
 using a capo at the 2nd fret) : 
  
 e --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 B --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 G --------------------------------------------------------------| 
 D ------------------------------------------9------11-----------| 
 A -------7--9--9-----7---(7/)9------11--12----------------------| 
 E ----9--------.--------9---------------------------------------| 
  
     (F#m)   (E)  (C#m) <-actual chords played, you could use... 
   ...(Em)   (D)  (Bm) SHAPES, with capo@2 
 e ---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 B ----------------------------------------2----------------------------| 
 G -------------------------------2------4---2--------------------------| 
 D ----/16---/14---/11---9---7---6-----4--------------2--4--------4--6--| 
 A ---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 E ---------------------------------------------2------------2----------| 
  
 Any comments, corrections, improvements etc. welcome. 
  
  
 Nic 
  
 Nic.Boulton@mercury.co.uk