Tabbed By: rhoadsie
Email: rhoadesclark@yahoo.com
The Home by Portugal. The Man.
Lyrics by John Baldwin Gourley.
Key: F
Intro:
Gm 4x Bb 4x C 4x Bb 2x-C 2x
Do you ever listen to the sounds that your hands make?
Gm Bb C Bb-C
Did you know that we could make sounds?
Verse:
Gm Bb C
I don't know what the palace knows, but I don't run with sheep,
Bb C
The shepherd can't heard me
Gm Bb C
My feet ever slow with the age that takes me, I'll slip out to the mountains
Bb C
Where nobody knows me
Chorus:
(I'm not sure if there are any chord changes here, if there are, the chords are
probably the same as the rest of the song.)
Gm (Let it ring)
I will make my home here
I will make my home here
I will make my home here
Verse:
Gm Bb C
Grow a field of plenty to hold me tight and keep us warm
Bb C
from the cold that burns me
Gm Bb C
My feet ever slow with the age that takes me, I'll slip out to the mountains
Bb C
Where nobody knows me, and
Chorus:
Gm (let it ring)
I will make my home here
I will make my home here
I will make my home here
Verse:
Gm Bb C Bb - C
Do you ever listen to the sounds that your hands make?
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/portugal_the_man/the_home_crd.html ]
Gm Bb C Bb - C
Did you know that we could make sounds?
Gm Bb C
I don't know what the palace knows, but I don't run with sheep,
Bb C
The shepherd can't heard me
Gm Bb C
My feet ever slow with the age that takes me, I'll slip out to the mountains
Bb C
Where nobody knows me
Chorus:
Gm
I will make my home here
Bb
I will make my home here
C
I will make my home here
Bb C
(I will make my home here)
Repeat ONCE.
Cool Riff
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----8--8-6---6~--6---------6------------------|
G|----------7-------7--5------7--5--------------| >2X
D|-----------------------8~--------8~-----------|
A|-----------------------------------------3----|
E|--------------------------------------3h5--5p3|
Bridge: (fingerpick this part somehow, it sounds good just plucking the notes of
the powerchord for each chord, then gradually building up.)
Gm Bb F C
I know that I was fine before (fine before, fine before)
Gm Bb F C
I know that I was fine before (fine before, fine before)
Gm Bb F C
I know that I was fine before (fine before, fine before)
Gm Bb F C
I know that I was fine before (fine before, fine before)
Play the tabbed out riff above until you end.
It's my first tab, so things may not be right, but let me know if you can correct
anything! email is up above. :]
