Souvenir

SOUVENIR
(Neil Finn)

NOTES: 

-- I've supplied two different versions of the intro (which is the same 
thing played on the verses); the first version is an easier way to go, 
though the voicings are not as accurate as Version 2. The problem is 
that version 2 relies on the higher strings, giving you very little bass 
to work with -- and this is a pretty bass-heavy song. 

-- This is one of those songs on the album that doesn't work 
particularly well as an acoustic guitar song.

-- The riff is pretty much identical all through the song.


* UNUSUAL CHORDS

E      XX2100 (diff. from usual fingering)
D6     XX0100
F#m    XX4222 (diff. from usual fingering)
A6/C#  X42422

RIFF:

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INTRO/VERSE, version 1:   E   F#m

INTRO/VERSE, version 2:   E*  D6*  F#m* 


VERSE:
              E         (D6)  F#m
Don't ask the question

                       E      (D6)  F#m
cos you won't like the answer

                E      (D6) F#m
get up off your chair

                        A   
there's nothing for you here



CHORUS:

D         A                   D
Where the guests like souvenirs

A         D        A            D
they play with you til you're all worn out

A    D         A               D         E  (D6)   F#m
back there the guests like souvenirs


VERSE:
Prison colour blue
it's a uniform of choice
count yourself lucky
and you don't write the software

CHORUS:
and the guests like souvenirs
they play with you till you're all worn out
back where the guests take photographs
they hope you had a good night

BRIDGE:      
G    A    Bb     A

          G         A    Bb    A
Loosen up your tie

         G          
make the viewers cry

A         Bb        E   (D6)  F#m
I cannot pretend to cry


SOLO:
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--------------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11-11--11--|-11>9-----||
--------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------|----------||
--9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------------|-------12-||
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VERSE:
Memorise by heart
every single part
there's nothing for you here

CHORUS:
Where the guests like souvenirs
they play with you til you're all worn out
back where the guests like souvenirs
they hope you had a good night


G   A    Bb    A  


G   A        Bb        A
Each night I would fall

     G              A
right off the stairs

      Bb     A
no one's in prayer (?)


CODA: (instrumental, no words)

G  A6/C#*   F#m     D

G  A6/C#    F#m     E       G




[c] 1997 by Roundhead Music, Administered by Wixen Music (BMI)

(Transcription by Marck Bailey)