Fake Tales Of San Francisco Chords & Tabs
Fake Tales Of San Francisco Tab
There are two guitar parts. One can be played by either a normal guitar or a bass.
Guitar 1/Bass (JAMIE) first.
Main riff (Verse):
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Chorus riff:
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Bridge:
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GUITAR 2 (ALEX)
Verse Riff
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Bridge:
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Play nothing during chorus or play along with the other guitar.
So here is the song as a whole:
(drum fill)
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Fake Tales of San Francisco echo through the room
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More point to a wedding disco without a bride or groom
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There's a super cool band yeah with their trilbies and their glasses of white wine
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And all the weekend rock stars in the toilets practicing their lines
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I don't want to hear you (Kick me out, kick me out)
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I don't want to hear you no (Kick me out, kick me out)
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I don't want to hear you no (Kick me out, kick me out)
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I don't want to hear you I don't want to hear you
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Fake Tales of San Francisco echo through the air
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/arctic_monkeys/fake_tales_of_san_francisco_tab_ver_3.html ]
And there's a few bored faces in the back all wishing they weren't there
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And as the microphone squeaks a young girl's telephone beeps
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Yeah she's dashing for the exit oh, she's running to the streets outside
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"Oh you've saved me," she screams down the line "The band were fucking wank and I'm not
having a nice time"
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I don't want to hear you (Kick me out, kick me out)
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I don't want to hear you no (Kick me out, kick me out)
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Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though so all that's left
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Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf
(play nothing during line)
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He talks of San Francisco, he's from - Hunter's Bar I don't quite know the distance but
I'm - sure that's far Yeah, I'm sure that's pretty far - (lines indicate bars)
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Yeah, I'd love to tell you all -my problem You're not from New York City, you're -from
Rotherham So get off the bandwagon, and -put down the handbook
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook [x4]
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OUTRO
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THEN GUITAR 1/BASS COMES IN
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