Letters To God Chords & Tabs
Box Car Racer
Letters to God
Tabbed by Vince a.k.a
____ __ __ __ __ _ ____ _ _
/ __ \ __ __ __ / / / / / / / / (_)/ _ \ /| / \/ \
/ ____// / / // /___ / /_/_/ / /_/_/ / // / / / | \_/ /
/ / / /_/ // / / // /\ \ / /\ \ / // /_/ / | / \ /
/_/ /_____//_/ /_//_/ \_\/_/ \_\/_//_____/ _|_\_//__
Standard Tuning
low to high - EADGBE
ok I kind of copy and pasted a little bit of the tab by ThaDOod, but
for the most part I changed it all so that it sounded RIGHT especially
the rhythms and the intro and interlude parts!
so enjoy and if you like box car racer check out
my tab of Watch The World ver4
~ = let ring
. = palm mute
clean (acoustic)
Intro:[0:00]
E|-----------------------------------|
B|-0--00-00-00-00--------------------|
G|-0--00-00-00-00--------------------|
D|-2--22-22-22-224--5-55-55-555-5-55-| X2
A|-2--22-22-22-224--5-55-55-555-5-55-|
E|---------------2--3-33-33-333-3-33-|
Verse:[0:09]
E|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-0--00-00-00-0000------------------|
D|-2--22-22-22-2222-5--55-55-55-5555-| X8
A|-2--22-22-22-2222-5--55-55-55-5555-|
E|-0--00-00-00-0000-3--33-33-33-3333-|
Chorus:[0:27]
E|------------------------------------|
B|-0-00-00-00-00000-------------------|
G|-0-00-00-00-00000--5-55-55-55-55555-|
D|-2-22-22-22-22222--5-55-55-55-55555-|
A|-2-22-22-22-22222--3-33-33-33-33333-|
E|-0-00-00-00-00000-------------------|
X2
E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|-------------------7-77-77-77-77777-|
D|-5-55-55-55-55555--7-77-77-77-77777-|
A|-5-55-55-55-55555--5-55-55-55-55555-|
E|-3-33-33-33-33333--5-55-55-55-55555-|
Intro:[0:45] X2
Verse2:[0:54]X8
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/box_car_racer/letters_to_god_tab_ver_3.html ]
Chorus:[1:12]piano starts X2
Piano Interlude:[1:31]
E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------|
D|-5-55-55-55-55555--7-77-77-77-77777-|
A|-5-55-55-55-55555--7-77-77-77-77777-|
E|-3-33-33-33-33333--5-55-55-55-55555-|
E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|-4-44-44-44-44444-------------------|
D|-5-55-55-55-55555--5-55-55-55-55555-|
A|-2-22-22-22-22222--5-55-55-55-55555-|
E|-------------------3-33-33-33-33333-|
X2
E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------|
D|-5-55-55-55-55555--7-77-77-77-77777-|
A|-5-55-55-55-55555--7-77-77-77-77777-|
E|-3-33-33-33-33333--5-55-55-55-55555-|
E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|-4-44-44-44-44444--5-55-55-55-55555-|
D|-5-55-55-55-55555--5-55-55-55-55555-|
A|-2-22-22-22-22222--3-33-33-33-33333-|
E|------------------------------------|
Guitar w/heavy distortion
Bridge[2:07]
E|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-0000-0000-0-----------------|
D|-2222-2222-24--5555-5555-55--| 2X
A|-2222-2222-24--5555-5555-55--|
E|-0000-0000-02--3333-3333-33--|
. . . .
E|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-0-00--0-00-0------------------|
D|-2-22--2-22-24---5-55--5-55-55-| 2X
A|-2-22--2-22-24---5-55--5-55-55-|
E|-0-00--0-00-02---3-33--3-33-33-|
Outro[2:25]Chorus w/distortion this time X4
you can kind of ad lib here and play whatever rhythm sounds
good with the drums.
End on:[3:00]
E|--------|
B|--0~~~--|
G|--0~~~--|
D|--2~~~--|
A|--2~~~--|
E|--0~~~--|