******************************************************** * RADAR BROS. - THE SINGING HATCHET (1999) * * Album tabs by Zachary William Snow * * Questions or corrections? - unrealcity@sbcglobal.net * ******************************************************** Radar Bros. songs are not terribly difficult to play or to tab, but I've seen some really bad tabs out there (especially "Tar the Roofs"), and I also noticed a general lack of their tabs, so I decided to do these myself, dammit. As far as I know, these are all correct, but I'm not entirely sure on some of the voicings, so if anyone has questions or corrections, email me. All songs are album versions, and in normal tuning. Oh, and I leave it up to you to figure out picking and strumming patterns. These are slow songs, but their use of key changes and odd voicings is what makes them a bit weird. ******************************************************************** 01 - Tar the Roofs 02 - Shifty Lies 03 - Shoveling Sons 04 - All the Ghosts 05 - Find the Four 06 - You're on an Island 07 - The Pilgrim 08 - You've Been Hired 09 - To Be Free Again 10 - Five Miles 11 - Open Ocean Sailing 12 - Gas Station Downs ******************************************************************** ------------------ 01 - Tar the Roofs ------------------ C Tar Gm The roofs E Of the houses D That are leakin' C The religions Gm Of who live there E And are leavin' D Their infidelities C At the door Eb C When they come in. C Tar Gm The peaks E Of the mountains D That are singin' C The beliefs Gm Of who live there E And are leavin' D Their impurities C On their faces Eb C When they're wasted. ******************************************************************** ---------------- 02 - Shifty Lies ---------------- G G C In between G C Chivalry of the armor-clad G C D7 D7sus4 D7 D7sus4 D7 Lies a focus in I G C Now you're singin' G C It takes too long to remind you of your hearts G You're way behind the county line C D7 D7sus4 You must have fallen off somewhere sometime D7 D7sus4 Now you're here delivering your G C Am Shifty lies and senseless vision G C Am Overflow like frozen rivers G Dsus4/F# Stand in line, they watch the time C You're cattled up and weeks behind C How long, how long C7 Until we reach the bottom of the lake? Then we'll see Murky water visions Misleading us again There you are delivering your Shifty lies and senseless visions Overflow like frozen rivers Stand in line, you watch the time You're cattled up and week behind How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the Shifty lies and senseless visions Overflow like frozen rivers Stand in line, you watch the time You're cattled up and weeks behind How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the lake? G C til fade. ******************************************************************** ------------------- 03 - Shoveling Sons ------------------- Am F G Shoveling sons keeping us awake Am F G Into the night's misfortunes we fade Am F G Giving the land's only fair eye Am D7 G Shoveling sons are marching away F Am G F And you never will be confused by the few who ride down F Am G The only road paved by dead souls Shoveling sons keeping good time Digging the holes where others reside Fortunate sons keeping us awake Into the night's misgivings we fade And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls And they never will credit you on the few times you ride The only road worth your time Am F G Shoveling sons... Am F G Shoveling sons... Am F G Am D7 G Shoveling sons... And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls And you never will be confused by the few who ride down The only road paved by dead souls Am C Am C Shoveling sons... Am C Am C Shoveling sons... ******************************************************************** ------------------- 04 - All the Ghosts ------------------- [Note: this song is mostly piano with light electric guitar. The piano would be too hard to tab exactly for guitar, so these chords are not exact voicings, but just the basics.] Em Em/F# Em/G C B Em Em/F# Em/G Have you been paid C B To bring us down Em Em/F# Em/G C B against our will again? Em Em/F# Em/G And how'd you follow us? C B And how'd you see? Em Em/F# Em/G Wishing's lost to the touch C To see your eyes are painted shut Em Em/F# Em/G C B And we won't come clean. Em Em/F# Em/G C Em Em/F# Em/G C B Are you too late To serve again a locked out salary? Just buy me something. I'll pay you later for these things. Em Em/F# Em/G We'll be cleared from your list C And all the ghosts who won't be missed Em Em/F# Em/G C B Won't come clean Em Em/F# Em/G C Won't come clean Em Em/F# Em/G C B Em Em/F# Em/G C Em Em/F# Em/G C B Em Em/F# Em/G C ******************************************************************** ------------------ 05 - Find the Four ------------------ E A F D7 G C E A F D7 G C E A F D7 G C Find the hour to tell me places I have never been E A F D7 G C And educate me of all things lost through sleep and wasted time E A F D7 Out past the break and the slips F D7 A row of foreign ships G C Our amnesty lies Keep breathing lines from the books and sleep with your pants on Hold allegiance 'til your contract's up, your time is out Too real your head is a fog And all that was done Is dead on the run Keep breathing page after page Hire me today Or throw me in jail Outro: C Am F G7 ******************************************************************** ------------------------ 06 - You're on an Island ------------------------ [Note: for the D7 to G7 transitions in the verses, you're only going to play the top couple strings, not the full chords.] Intro: G D/F# F Ab G D/F# F Ab G D/F# F Ab G D/F# C C F D7 G7 I listened too many times C F D7 G7 To phone calls on your private line C F D7 G7 And now you're loud and clear C F D7 G7 Now alternate between F and FMaj7, and C and CMaj7 until you end on E. C F D7 G7 Your island suited us fine C F D7 G7 Your contact was better than mine C F D7 G7 With all our missions clear C E F C To take you out was never made too clear E F C It was never made too clear E F C La da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum Da da da da da da da dum ******************************************************************** ---------------- 07 - The Pilgrim ---------------- [Note: all major chords are barred] B+ (B augmented) = [X2544X] Intro: Bb+ G Bb+ G Bb+ G Why'd you have to let Bb+ G The pilgrim out of his cage? Bb+ G Why'd you have to let Bb+ G The pilgrim out of his cage? F Ooohhhh... C Ooohhhh... D A Ooohhhh... D F Ooohhhh... Why'd you have to let The pilgrim go free? Why'd you have to be Responsible? Ooohhhh... Why'd you have to let the pilgrim out of his cage? Aaahhhh... Bb+ Aaahhhh... Bb+ G ******************************************************************** ---------------------- 08 - You've Been Hired ---------------------- G C You've been hired for their dirty work Am I can see it in your eyes C C7 So long for now E Cadd9 I will always be true to you Am C C7 For a while you'll have to kill for food Turn off all your sensors most of all and relinquish your control You're dead for now By the rocks we throw you will be clear to hear All the fates will be calling you By the time you're here All will be gone G Am All these changes and bank statements C Am They must make you kind of nervous ******************************************************************** --------------------- 09 - To Be Free Again --------------------- F C F Ab E F C F Ab E Demons once again come down F C F Ab E To shed their night on you C E F Sacred light C E F Burn through the beast within C E F And you'll be free to run again C E F You'll be free again Keep your story please But throw away your lies Priests of light Burn down the evil land You still have time to make it alright To be free again ******************************************************************** --------------- 10 - Five Miles --------------- Cadd9 Five miles of unused highway G7 Three flares to bring you my way C Too late the kitchen's closed Am E We'll have to sleep forever now Cadd9 Thin lines are paint between us G7 Outside the symphony of C Hellbound fortune-driven Am E Soldiers out on holiday C Am E C A F C A As you walk away again G7 C A dynasty of broken feet give in F Fm Four wakeless mornings beat the sun down C On the chaplain's head A And as he cues for you to sing G7 C Rhapsody you promised would bring F Fm All chapel-beaten soldiers down C Upon their knees again F Fm C F Fm C F Fm C C F Wake up the town to bring lost parodies of Fm C Faceless demons scattering away F On borrowed time the Fm C C7 clock will unwind C F Fm C F Wake up the town to give us rhapsodies of Fm C Timeless rhythm scattering away F Fm As formless creatures lift C The time from every working day F Fm C [til end] ******************************************************************** ----------------------- 11 - Open Ocean Sailing ----------------------- E F C Am E F You don't know me so you won't pay me anymore C Am E F And you won't hire me to come and clean your floor C Am E F But let me take you down to the lake so we can get paid C Am E F one more time around And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy And only one thing could release you from your misery Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day Fight the ways of a slow production day Until you're real I'll fall into your arms of hatred and harm Until you're safe I'll fall into those places you've been running from so far And you won't feed me angry pages anymore The salted windows you will view me from no more But let me turn you down so the rest of us could hear one more time around And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy And only one thing could release you from your misery Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day Fight the ways of a slow production day ******************************************************************** ---------------------- 12 - Gas Station Downs ---------------------- [Note: Okay, so they get a little tricky here with us. This was by far the hardest song to figure out, and I'd welcome any corrections, especially to the "Have fun done" part. I'm pretty sure I got it, though. The B7add4 and D9(no3)/A are outlined rather than strummed, so it's pretty easy to hear the individual notes.] B7add4 = [X2120X] D9(no3)/A = [X00210] Organ intro [transposed for guitar]: A Em A A A Em E C Bb D Bb C walk to D E C Bb D Bb E C Bb D Show your face 'round here again Bb C We'll have to burn the stations down E C One by one Bb D It's too bad your face Bb C reveals the state you'll be living in E C And in the time Bb D It takes you to run Bb C From end to end, you'll be dead again B7add4 D9(no3)/A Have fun done B7add4 D9(no3)/A You're the same in the photograph B7add4 D9(no3)/A So keep your hands tied up C E A A2 A A2 A A2 A A2 E C Bb D You're the type everyone tries Bb C to have and run their watches by E C Bb D Bb C Only time ain't what they need B7add4 D9(no3)/A Half contained B7add4 With the land D9(no3)/A Half with the cell again B7add4 D9(no3)/A And if it made you think like others do B7add4 D9(no3)/A Come a long way to make you think like them C E Bb E C E Bb E