Half Right, Elliott Smith
Tabbed by Aaron Eisenberg
aaron.m.eisenberg@gmail.com
9/30/2007
Tuned a full step down
E--->D
B--->A
G--->F
D--->C
A--->G
E--->D
Intro:
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-4-4-4-4---4---4---4----6---6---6-----|
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then
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Elliott begins the verse as he picks the 2nd half of this:
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-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|
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Verse:
"...well I pictured somebody else..."
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--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|
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"...got in you and ripped out the seams..."
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/e/elliott_smith/half_right_tab_ver_3.html ]
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Bridge:
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-8-8-3-3-2-2---------------------------|
-5-5-0-0-2-2---and then something------|
-5-5-2-2-2-2---------------------------|you'll have to ask
-5-5-0-0-0-0---------------------------|Elliott how to play...
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(1:41)"...he was a sucker"
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...which brings you back to the verse pattern again:
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--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|
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-3---3---3----5---5---5---------------|
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"with a broken sink for a face":
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--3-3-3-3-3-3--8-8-8-8-8--------------|
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Bridge II is something like this:
(2:19) "...its already half past"
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-5-5-4-4-7-7-3-3----------------------|
-5-5-2-2-7-7-3-3----------------------|
-3-3-2-2-5-5-1-1----------------------|
(2:31) Play the intro and verse progression
again as if the song were starting over.
No more surprises.
