The Person You Are Chords & Tabs
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From: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk
T H E P E R S O N Y O U A R E
by John Wesley Harding
from the album "The Name Above The Title"
Key: G major
~~~~~~~~~~~~
INTRO: G D C D
(D) Em
I put my forehead to the door
G D
I heard the famous sound of infidelity
Em
Looks like I've loved and lost once more
G D
Oh, but all's fair in love and war, supposedly
C
I couldn't even burst in on you
G D
See scrabbling sheets or your excuse
C G D
Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
RIFF A: G D C D G D C D
(D) Em
I slammed my glass down on the bar
G D
My problems, they hit the floor so gracefully
Em
I don't know where I parked the car
G D
That's okay; tonight I'm on the town without me
C
Tonight it's just me and my evil twin
G D
The one who slips one more drink in
C G D
The one who slips away when I start sinking
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
G D
They hurt the person you are
C D
The person you are
G D
The person you are
C D
The person you are
RIFF B: G D C D G D C D
(D) Em
Got a job to pay the rent
G D
Put people out of work by repositioning
Em
Now no-one's sitting on the fence
G D
Whose garden will we end up sitting in?
C
It's getting much to hard to heal the sky
G D
It stings too much to open up our eyes
C G D
To fundamental truths that we hold as lies
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING FOUR TIMES
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
G D
They hurt the person you are
C D
The person you are
G D
The person you are
C D
The person you are
G D C D G D C D G
The person............... person............... person...... yeay.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OUTRO ON LEAD GUITAR
-- T H E E N D --
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
L E A D G U I T A R T A B S
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I N T R O
~~~~~~~~~
G D C
||-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8---|
||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8---------------|
||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9---------------------|
||--S----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
||--T----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|--7----------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
R I F F B
~~~~~~~~~~~
G D C
|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----|
|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------|
|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------|
|--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D G D
|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|
|--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|
|--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|
|-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/h/harding_john_wesley/the_person_you_are_tab.html ]
C D
|-------------10-----8----|-------- ----------------|
|--------8----------------|--7--7--R----------------|
|--9----------------------|--7--7--E----------------|
|-------------------------|--------S----------------|
|-------------------------|--------T----------------|
|-------------------------|-------- ----------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O U T R O
~~~~~~~~~
G D C
|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----|
|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------|
|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------|
|--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D G D
|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|
|--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|
|--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|
|-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
C D G
|-------------10-----8----|--------------7----------|--7---------------------||
|--------8----------------|--------8----------10----|--8---------------------||
|--9----------------------|--7----------------------|--7---------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------||
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O P T I O N A L R H Y T H M G U I T A R P A R T F O R R I F F A
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Normally played on piano)
^
G ^ D ^ C
|--------3----------------|--------2----------------|-------------------------|
|--------0----------------|--------3----------------|--1----------------------|
|--------0----------------|--------2----------------|--0----------------------|
|--------0--------------0-|-------------------------|--2----------------------|
|--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-|--3-----2-----0----------|
|--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|--------------------3----|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D ^ ^ h G ^ D ^
|--------2-----0--2-------|--------3----------------|--------2----------------|
|--------3-----3----------|--------0----------------|--------3----------------|
|--------2-----2----------|--------0----------------|--------2----------------|
|--0----------------------|--------0--------------0-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-|
|-------------------------|--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
^ ^
C D
|-------------------------|--2----------------------| This section was
|--1----------------------|--3----------------------| invented by me
|--0----------------------|--2----------------------| around the part
|--2----------------------|--0----------------------| played with the
|--3-----2-----0----------|-------------------------| piano at this
|--------------------3----|-------------------------| point in Wes's
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . recording.
Notes:
* `^' means downstroke, `h' means hammer-on.
* In the 4th bar of this section, the 3rd beat and it's half-beat can
either be played using the hammer-on to the treble note as shown above
(in which case the chord on the 3rd beat becomes Dsus2), which is one
of my personal favourite colourings, or the normal D fingering can be
retained, with a downstroke on the 3rd beat and an upstroke on the
following half-beat.
* Don't worry unduly about playing only those strings shown in the tabs
when doing downstrokes with your plectrum or thumb. In particular the
C chord strums are shown with the treble-E string not played, but this
isn't always easy to get right, so don't worry, be happy :-)
* A reasonably flexible but reasonably firm pick/plectrum is best if you
want to do this riff (IMHO).
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G E N E R A L N O T E S
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. If you are playing solo, then the most important thing is to keep up
the rhythm and chords, so you can forget the lead guitar solo parts.
I like to use the last 4 bars of the OPTIONAL RHYTHM PART FOR RIFF A
as my intro, and obviously stick to the RIFF A after the first verse,
using it again after the second verse, where the recording has RIFF B.
In place of the OUTRO, I just strum the chords of the rhythm guitar
part, allowing the words (person... person... person... yeay) to hold
the flow of the ending, and then finish with a flourish.
2. As always, learn the rhythm of the song from the recording.
3. Enjoy!
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C h O R D S
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G chord D chord
e||---|---|-o-| G e||---|-o-|---| F#
B||---|---|---| B B||---|---|-o-| D
G||---|---|---| G G||---|-o-|---| A
D||---|---|---| D D||---|---|---| D
A||---|-o-|---| B A||---|---|---| A
E||---|---|-o-| G E||---|-x-|---| either use thumb on 2nd fret
or don't play bass-E string
C chord Em chord
e||---|---|---| E e||---|---|---| E
B||-o-|---|---| C B||---|---|---| B
G||---|---|---| G G||---|---|---| G
D||---|-o-|---| E D||---|-o-|---| E
A||---|---|-o-| C A||---|-o-|---| B
E||---|---|---| E E||---|---|---| E
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