Like Knives Live Chords & Tabs
First tab, this sounds awesome.. Hope this helps all the CnC fans out there.
There are not so many tabs available for this song that are actually correct. This is
more or less a guideline to play something similar to the live version, but it sounds
The strum pattern is fairly tricky to hook onto with all of the sliding necessary, so
rate this as a little below intermediate guitar work. The tab below was taken and modified
another posted on U-G with an unreg'd user, but props to that person for doing most of
work I would've had to. All told, the remaining parts of the tab are interpreted from the
of the song itself as well as from watching the City and Colour live DVD.
TUNING: CGDGBe
How to:
Tune the low E two steps down to a C, IE: the 9th fret of the E string sounds like a
tuned A string.
Tune the A string down a single step so that the 7th fret of the a string sounds like
D string.
Intro/Verse:
Played 6 times
e|X----X----X----X---X-|
B|0----0----0----0---0-|
G|0----0----0----0---0-|
D|0----0----0----0---0-|
G|5-h--7----4----2---0-| let this note ring
C|4----4----4----4---0-| let this note ring
0-----0---0 --0----0------|
0-----0---0- -0----0------|
2/4-/-5-/- 7-\ 4----2-----|
0-----0---0- -0----0------|
X-----X---X --X----X------|X this note is still ringing
X-----X---X- -X----X------|X this note is still ringing
Chorus
0------0--0-0---------------------|
0------0--0-0---------------------|
0------0--0-0---------------2p0---|
4------4--2-0---0h2h4-------------|
2------0--0-0---------------------|
2------0--X-X---------------------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
0-----0---0----0--0--------|
0-----0---3----3--0--------|
0-----0---0----0--0--------|
4-----2---4-p--2--4--------|
2-----0---0----0--0--------|
2-----0---X----X--X--------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/city_and_colour/like_knives_live_tab.html ]
0-----0---0----0--0------------|
0-----0---0--h-3--0------------|
0-----0---0--h-2--0------------|
4-----2---4----0--4------------|
2-----0---0----0--0------------|
2-----0---X----X--X------------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
0-----0---0----0------------0-| this last chord hangs
3-----3---3----3------------0-| into the break
0-----0---0----0------------0-|
4-----4---4-p--2------------2-|
2-----0---0----0------------0-|
2-----0---X----X------------X-|
Verse (Played 4 or 5 times, depends on which live performance you watch)
e|X----X----X----X---X-|
B|0----0----0----0---0-|
G|0----0----0----0---0-|
D|0----0----0----0---0-|
G|5-h--7----4----2---0-| let this note ring
C|4----4----4----4---0-| let this note ring
0-----0---0 --0----0------|
0-----0---0- -0----0------|
2/4-/-5-/- 7-\ 4----2-----|
0-----0---0- -0----0------|
X-----X---X --X----X------|X this note is still ringing
X-----X---X- -X----X------|X this note is still ringing
Chorus and ze Grande Finale
0------0--0-0-------------------|
0------0--0-0-------------------|
0------0--0-0---------------2p0-|
4------4--2-0---0h2h4-----------|
2------0--0-0-------------------|
2------0--X-X-------------------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
0-----0---0----0--0--------|
0-----0---3----3--0--------|
0-----0---0----0--0--------|
4-----2---4-p--2--4--------|
2-----0---0----0--0--------|
2-----0---X----X--X--------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
0-----0---0----0--0------------|
0-----0---0--h-3--0------------|
0-----0---0--h-2--0------------|
4-----2---4----0--4------------|
2-----0---0----0--0------------|
2-----0---X----X--X------------|X this note is still ringing
cont'D
0---0---0--0-|
0---0---0--0-|
0---0---0--0-|
4---4---2--0-|
2---0---0--0-|
2---0---X--X-|
0---0---0---0---0--0--0---| this last chord hangs
0---0---0---0---0--0--0---| into the break
0---0---0---0---0--0--0---|
0-h-2-/-4-/-5-/-7-/-9--9--|
0---0---0---0---0--0--7---|
0---0---0---0---0--0--7---|
A variation of sliding on the D string continues from here for 4 verses or so,
Finish on:
0--| this last chord hangs
0--| into the break
0--|
4--|
2--|
2--|
