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BLACK CADILLACS - Modest Mouse
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Tabbed by: devin miller
Email: irish__nugget@hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
SIMULATED HARMONICS INTRO:
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------12+------------------|
G|-7+--12+---------------------------------|
D|----------7+---12+-----------------------|
A|------------------------------7+---------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
(repeat again after next riff)
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-7+--12+---------------------------------|
G|----------7+---12+-----------------------|
D|--------------------3+--------5+---------|
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
yes, the 3rd fret one is ridiculous. But it's at the right pitch.
CHORDS USED THROUGHOUT SONG:
Am Fmaj7 C G B Bb F
e|--0-----0-----0-----3-----0-----1-----1----|
B|--1-----1-----1-----0-----1-----3-----1----|
G|--2-----2-----0-----0-----0-----3-----2----|
D|--2-----3-----2-----0-----0-----------3----|
A|--0-----3-----3-----2-----2-----------3----|
E|--------------------3----------------------|
INTRO:
And it's true we named our children after towns, that we'd never been to
And it's true that the clouds just hung around,
Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral
CHORUS:
Am Fmaj7 C
And we were done, done, done with all the fuck, fuck, fucking around!
G Am Fmaj7
You were so true to yourself, you were true to no one else
C B
Well I should put you in the ground.
Am Fmaj7
I've got the time, i got the hours, i got the days, i got the weeks
C G
I could say to myself I've got words but I can't speak but I was
Am Fmaj7 C B
Done, done, done with all the circ, circ, circling 'round.
BRIDGE:
Bb
I didn't die and I ain't complaining
F C B
I ain't blaming you.
Am
I didn't know that the words you said to me meant more
Fmaj7 C G
to me than they ever could you.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/modest_mouse/black_cadillacs_tab_ver_3.html ]
Bb F C B
I didn't lie and I ain't saying I told the whole truth.
Am
I didn't know that this game we were playing even
F C G
had a set of rules.
VERSE:
We named our children after towns, that we'd never been to
And it's true that the clouds just hung around,
Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral
And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground.
So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns.
But we were all still just
CHORUS:
Am Fmaj7 C G
Dumb, dumb, dumber than the dirt, dirt, dirt on the ground!
Am
Well, wings on flames, kings with no names,
Fmaj7 C B
well this place just ain't got right air right now.
Am Fmaj7
You were so all over town but still so crayola brown, well you should
C G
run 'round yourself right now. And we were,
Am Fmaj7 C B
done, done, done with all the fuck, fuck, fucking around.
AND END ON: Am
Riff played half way through the Bridge:
e|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--3p2p0-------------------------------------2----------------|
D|--------3------3p2p0--------------2----3----------3----2-----|
A|---------------------3------3---3-------------------------3--|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
p.m.---------------------------------------------------|
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--1--3--------1--3--------1--3--------------------------|
--------2--2-------2--0---------2--2-2-0--0-2-2---2-----|
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Riff played during the last verse (with piano playing):
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|------------.---8----------8---------------|
G|---------.--7------7-6---------------------|
D|-----.---7--------------7------------------|
A|--7--9--------------------------9p7--7-----|
E|-------------------------------------------|
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| . staccato note (don't let ring)
| p.m. palm mute
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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