Silverfishes Chords & Tabs
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Silverfishes - Frontier Ruckus
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Tabbed by: 3lacksabbath81
Email: sskinner@wit.edu
Deadmalls & Nightfalls: Track 5
Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
Tuning: Standard
Intro: OTHERCHORDS
Am C C# D(no5) Fmaj7 Em Riff A (A) A/C#
e||--0--|--0--|-----|-----|--0--|-----|--------|| |--0----0----0----|
B||--1--|--1--|--2--|--3--|--1--|--0--|-----0--|| |--2----5----8----|
G||--2--|--0--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|----(0)-|x2 |--2----6----9----|
D||--2--|--2--|--3--|--4--|--3--|--2--|--------|| |--2----7----11---|
A||--0--|--3--|--4--|--5--|-----|--2--|-2h3----|| |--0--------------|
E||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--0--|--------|| |-----------------|
Verse I:
Am C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C# D(no5)
For the refuse
Fmaj7 Em
That is littering all of your clues
Am C C# D(no5)
Orion is dead and gone but something in it still be-longs to me
Fmaj7 Em
The bright night I see
Am
High hot-time all the braggarts drag
C C#
Their boats down to the water
D(no5)
She dragged down to drown each and every
Fmaj7 Em
Brown rag I bought her
Am
The silverfish they ditch their skins as
C C#
The Saturday air raid beg-ins
D(no5)
Pitching exoskeletons
Fmaj7 Em
Revolting in their molting
Am
Dont you know Im just like that?
C C#
You can tell where Ive been at
D(no5)
On every doormat I have sat
Fmaj7 Em
A relic so an-gelic
Dm
Oh the once hard-biting night
D Fmaj7 Em
Now ruthlessly a toothless sight to see
Verse II:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/frontier_ruckus/silverfishes_crd.html ]
Am C
A shot down Telegraph with a hot laugh as we cruise
C# D(no5)
Through the sinews
Fmaj7 Em
Connecting all of your clues
Am
The blinds they clap for the
C
The napping overheated tangles
D
Daytime may climb high until the dusk sucks out
All that it mangles
Am
Melting with the blacktop moms
C C#
On a bed of palms and psalms
D
Immersed in the universe
Fmaj7 Em
Of off-ramp proms and sitcoms
Dm
Sylvan Lake and in between
D Fmaj7
Perpetually like Halloween
Em
I saw you
Am C
In the dormitory with the warming glory
C#
Of the harvest
D
The pilings of the night are whiling out
Fmaj7 Em
Where their forms are the largest
Bridge:
Am C D(no5) Fmaj7 Em
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|------0---------|
A|---3-----3--2~--|
E|----------------|
F
Feeling about half as vicious
Em A
As all the silverfishes crawl
F
If I truly am a coward
Em
Memory-fueled and fear-powered
A (A) A/C#
Ill be damned
F Em
But if I were
C D
That gorgeous blur
Dm Em
Id be
Am
Sure
Horn & Banjo Solo Section: Play verse Chords four times through. 2 bars for horn and 2
bars for banjo.
Verse III:
Am C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C# D(no5)
For the refuse
Fmaj7 Em
That is littering all of your clues
Am
Tripped up on the alley-weed
C C#
Through which I elbowed and kneed
D
The bottle of my beer emptied
Fmaj7 Em
And I was warm and fluid
Am
The body is a bottle, I guess
C C#
That I would like to throttle, yes
D
Mottled skin and spilling sin
Fmaj7 Em
And a holiness so stupid
Dm
The heaven that I long to see
D
The undone linearity
Fmaj7 Em
Ive pro- ven
Dm
Is all the love Ive tried to show
D
Buried where those buildings glow
Fmaj7 Em (Riff)
And ruined?
Am(let ring)
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6kG7MpWfA
http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| b Bend
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