Subsistence

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 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:16:58 -0400 
 From: Remi Despres  
  
   
 Subject: c/collins_edwyn/subsistence.crd 
  
 tab by Remi Despres (remidesp@netcom.ca) 
 sometimes in 1998 
  
  
 Subsistence by Edwyn Collins, 
 from the album Gorgeous George 
  
  
 Notes: 
 A7 is be played a few different ways... 
 Where A7 is called for, play [- 0 2 0 2 0] 
 Where A7* is noted play [- 0 2 0 2 3] 
 D7 also... 
 D7 is [- 0 0 2 1 2] 
 D7(V) - [5 5 7 5 7 5] 
 D7(V)* - [5 5 7 5 7 8] 
  
 I suggest listening to the recording for the timing on the D7 - D7(V) - D7(V)* progression 
  
 There are two low E notes plucked off beat during the intro 
 Intro picking pattern is played very softly, strumming starts at the end 
  
 Intro: 
  
 C 	        E            Am	           ?              F 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 ----------1------------0------------1-------------1-------------1-----| 
 ----------0------------1------------2-------------3-------------2-----| 
 ------2------2-----2------2----2------2-------2------2-------3-----3--| 
 --3--------------------------0-------------1--------------------------| 
 ----------------0-----------------------------------------1-----------| 
  
 E7  A 
 ---------------------| 
 --------3----------2-| 
 --------1---------2--| 
 ----2------2-----2---| 
 ----------------0----| 
 -0-------------------| 
  
 Verse 1 
  
 A     C#7 
 You may find			As I have found 
 F#m				A7                 A7* 
 This place is neither		Safe nor sound 
 D               F#7 
 This house of cards		Will tumble down 
 Bm				D7	         D7(V)   D7(V)* 
 As befits			A cardboard town 
  
          C                         F 
 You're lost in the ruins of your mind 
 		      C 
 As these four walls collide 
 		       G       G7 
 As your whole world subsides 
      C                         F 
 But you took it all in your stride 
                  C 
 As a matter of course 
         G         C 
 Not a matter of pride 
  
  
 E 
 A            C#7 
 So raise your glass		Let's celebrate 
         F#m			         A7     A7* 
 'Cause we can force		Those 'hands of fate' 
 D        F#7 
 No need to heed the call for greed,	for acquisition 
          Bm				   D7        D7(V)  D7(V)* 
 Now I ain't puttin' you on	This is my genuine position 
  
 [Chorus] 
  
 E E7 
 Am               Em      F           C  Em 
 How can I thank you		We're forever in your debt 
           Am         Em             F 
 We'll bite the hand of fate that feeds us 
 	          Dm    Dsus4   Dm   Dsus4  Dm  Dsus4 
 Morsels of regret 
  
  
 [chorus] 
  
 F                          G       G7   C 
 As a matter of course 	Not a matter of pride