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Dublin - Prefab Sprout
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Tuning: Half step down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Prefab Sprout
Dublin (1985, released 1989)
(McAloon)
From: "Protest Songs"
This beauty has interesting chords thus creating a special texture.
It is mostly picked.
It is not easy to find out what is played and even though I think I got
close, there are parts where I'm not sure at all. Especially the section
I tabbed out below doesn't not seem elegant enough to me. Suggestions
for corrections are highly welcome!
I don't really know the names of some of the chords. But I didn't want to
just "number" them, so I tried to name them anyway. Whoever knows more,
please comment!
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VERSE (last line)
Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|------2---------|----------------|
B|0-----2-------3-|------2---------|
G|0-----0-------0-|--0---0---0-----|
D|0-------------4-|------4---------|
A|------2---------|------0-----0---|
E|0-------------2-|----------------|
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CHORDS/SPECIAL VOICINGS
(alphabetically)
E-A-D-G-B-E (half-step down)
A6 x-0-2-2-2-2
A7/13 x-0-4-0-2-x
Aadd9 x-0-2-4-2-x
Bsus2/13 x-2-x-0-2-2
Bm13 x-2-4-0-3-x
D/F# 2-x-4-2-3-x
D11 x-5-4-0-3-x
Em11 0-7-7-7-8-7
F#m7 2-x-2-2-2-x
Gmaj7 3-x-4-4-3-x
The [A] indicates a single note
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Tuning: Half step down
INTRO
| Em11 | % | % | % |
D/F# F#m7 Bm7 Em11
Who does not adore the sound
A Em11
Of music in the names of towns
D11 A7sus4
To build a city on such picturesque ground
Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13
That takes some sort of flair
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/prefab_sprout/dublin_crd.html ]
D/F# F#m7 Bm7 Em11
We draw a line the ink is fear
A Em11
You stay that side we'll stay here
D11 A7sus4
It's far harder to keep it up
Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13
Than to tear it down
Gmaj7 D/F#
Does it take you back to the kind of world
Gmaj7 [A] Aadd9 A
Hindsight calls the good old days?
Gmaj7 D/F#
Now that there's no room in an Einstein world
Gmaj7 [A] Aadd9 A
For simple cause and effect
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Dub----lin Du---blin
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A(7)
Home of pretty Co----leens
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Dub----lin Du---blin
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
INTRO
| Em11 | % | % | % |
D/F# F#m7 Bm7 Em11
Behind the soft and peachy skin
A Em11
Where D.N.A. or God begin
D11 A7sus4
Where sub-Gaelic rot sets in
Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13
With stories from your mother
D/F# F#m7 Bm7 Em11
In myths and less exalted forms
A Em11
The heady cocktail glory is born
D11 A7sus4
You know it's not a bottled storm
Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13
So why do you indulge it?
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Dub----lin Du---blin
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A(7)
Home of pretty Co----leens
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Dub----lin Du---blin
*Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
OUTRO
| Em11 | % | % | % |
That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me
