Thin Lizzy: Don't Believe A Word
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From: Kristoffer J Rydquist
*Intro 8 bars:
Am
Guitar 1:
e-------------------|--------------------|-------------
--------------------|--------------------|---------------
--------------------|--------------------|----------------------
-------7-5-----5-4--|-------7-5-----5-4--|------Repeat 5 times---
---0-0-----(7)------|--0-0------(7)------|----------------------
E-------------------|--------------------|--------------
Guitar 2:
e-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|-
--------------------|--------------------|-----------------|-
--------------------|--------------------|-----------------|-
-------10-9~---9-7--|------10-9~----9-7--|-------Repeat----|---
---0-0--------------|--0-0---------------|-----------------|---
E-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|-
Guitar 1 plays 4 bars solo, then guitar 2 kicks in and they play three
bars
together. The last intro bar looks like this:
Guitar 1: Guitar 2:
--------------| |---------------
--------------| |---------------
--------------| |---------------
--5-5-4---7---| |---9-9-7-------
--------5-----| |---------7-0---
--------------| |---------------
Guitar tacet, drums by the one and only Brian Downey! (one bar or
something..)
*Verse 1:
Tacet Am
Don't believe me if I tell you
Dm (C) G
Not a word of this is true
Am G F
Don't believe me if I tell you.. 'Specially if I tell you
Dm C G
I'm in love with you
The guitar playing in the verses are power/barre chords (Ex: Am G F
progression).
Where a chord is played for a "long" time, play this figure instead of
the chord:
Over Dm: Over Am: Over Em
-----------------------| |-------------------- +2 compared
to Dm
-----------------------| |--------------------
-------(8)-(7)-(8)-----| |--------(6)-(5)--(6)-
--------10--8---10-----| |---------8---6----8---
-----------------------| |--------------------
--8--8-----------------| |---5--5------------
Both guitars play bass tones, then Git1 "parenthesised" notes, Git2 the
others.
*Verse 2:
Don't believe me if I tell you
That I wrote this song for you
That's just not for some other silly pretty girl (alt: "pretty silly",live
I'm singing to version)
*Bridge (or is this the chorus.. never mind):
Em Dm
Don't believe a word, the words are so easily spoken
Am
And your heart is just like that promise.. made to be broken
*Solo
Same chord progression as the verses, play it twice.
My suggestion: A pentatonic, harmonic minor or "blues scale".
Scott Gorham (I guess its him) plays with wah-wah and Les Paul guitar.
*Bridge again
Em Dm
Don't believe a word, 'cause word's can tell (them) lies
Am
But them lies ain't no comfort, when there's tears in your eyes.
*Verse 3:
Repeat first verse..
*Outro (slight, barely audible wah fills..)
G Am G F
Don't believe a word
G Am G F
No don't believe a word
G Am G F
Don't believe it, don't believe it
G Am G F
Not a single word
Hey don't!!
Intro riff 7 bars, 8th (last) bar:
e----------------------
----------------------
----------------------
----7--5---------------
-----------7---7\------
E--------------5\----- (Hold A5 chord and slide down)
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The "slow" version(s):
Intro:
Am (Am7 sounds nice during the intro)
----------------0/(3)--|--------------------------
----------------1------|--------------------------
----------------2/(0)--|-------------------------
----------------2------|--Repeat..----------------
--------3--0----0------|---------------------------
--0--3-----------------|----------------------------
let ring
(The bass plays the figure on the E and A strings)
On the LiveLife, one guitar plays Am7 arpeggios (one string at a time),
and the figure is:
------------------3---------
------------------1----------
------------------0-------
------------------2--------
--0---3--3---0----0--------
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let ring
Solos sounds best in harmonic minor, to create a "mood".
The riffs are gone, of course, just play open chords..
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Chords: Cut this out if you know them..
Am x02210 or Am barre 577555, Am7 x02013
Dm xx0231 or barre 8 10 10 8 8 8
Em 022000
G barre 355433 or open 320003 alt 320033
F barre 133211 or "open" skip the E,A strings
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tabbed by Kristoffer Rydquist
m92kjrt@mtek.chalmers.se