Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees Chords & Tabs

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"Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead
 
This file done by: "Glenn Rubenstein" glennrub@delphi.com
Special thanks to: et-lee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
 
 
Okay, this is pretty accurate, I took the chords
that Gene listed and put them to the lyrics, figuring
out the exact changes and the strumming pattern. It
sounds almost perfect when I play along to my CD and
it works well enough.
 
Corrections? e-mail: glennrub@delphi.com
 
 
Strumming pattern:
 
e---------------------- (only strum for the D chord)
B----------x-----------
G----------x-----------
D---x-x----x-----------
A---x-x----x----------- (for the D chord, don't play this string...)
E--don't play----------
 
(4 of the above strums equals what you should play for
each chord when it changes) 
 
(on the D/A/D change play 2 strums D, then 2 strums A, then 4 strums D)
 
 
Start strumming A for the intro, come in with
the lyrics on the second strum of the pattern)
 
A                            F#m
Her green plastic watering can
 
                               D
For her fake chinese rubber plant
 
              A     D
In the fake plastic earth
 
A                               F#m 
That she bought from a rubber man
 
                            D 
In a town full of rubber plans
 
       A      D 
To get rid of itself
 
 
 
             Bm
It wears her out..
 
             A
It wears her out..
 
             Bm
It wears her out..
 
             A
It wears her out
 
 
A                         F#m
She lives with a broken man
 
                        D  
A cracked polystyrene man
 
          A           D  
Who just crumbles and burns
 
A                   F#m
He used to do surgery
 
                      D  
For girls in the eighties
 
            A      D 
But gravity always wins
 
 
                 Bm 
And it wears him out..
 
             A
It wears him out..
 
             Bm
It wears him out..
 
      A 
It weeeeeaaaars
 
 
A                            F#m
She looks like the real thing
 
                           D
She tastes like the real thing
 
          A     D    
My fake plastic love
 
A                         F#m
But I can't help the feeling
 
                             D
I could blow through the ceiling
 
           A        D
If I just turn and run
 
                Bm
And it wears me out
 
            A
It wears me out
 
            Bm
It wears me out
 
            A 
It wears me out
 
               Bm
And if I could be who you wanted
 
           A
If I could be who you wanted
 
       Bm
All the time..
 
       A
All the time..
 
A (with more energy)
 
F#m (with more energy)
 
D (with more energy, no change this time)
 
(end on) A
 
 
 
Chords Used (or at least how I play it, there could be a variation though)
 
A - x02220
F#m -233222
D - xx0232
Bm - x24432
 
-glennrub@delphi.com

From: "Fischer Stephan" 
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:03:21 MET-1

  FAKE PLASTIC TREES  by Radiohead

  A                                   F#m
  Her green plastic wateringcan
                                       E   D
  For her fake chinese rubberplant
                A     D
  In fake plastic earth
  A                                             F#m  
  That she bought from a rubberman
                                 E   D
  In a town full of rubberplants
             A         D
  To get rid of itself
       Bm        A
  It wears her out   (4x)

  She lives with a broken man
  A cracked polysterene man
  Who just crumbles and burns
  
  He used to do surgery
  For girls in the eighties
  But gravity always wins and

  It wears him out   (4x)

  She looks like the real thing
  She tastes like the real thing
  My fake plastic love

  But I can't help the feeling
  I could blow through the ceiling
  If I just turn and run
  
  It wears me out   (4x)

                Bm
  If I could be what you wanted
                A
  If I could be what you wanted   
            Bm  
  All the time

__________________________________________________________
                                                                                                             
  Apologies for any mistakes                                          
   Peace, love etc.                                                    
                          Stephan                 

  stephan.fischer@uni-regensburg.de 
    


  FAKE PLASTIC TREES  by Radiohead
by randell@heinous.music.uiowa.edu

(the D chords are actually D-Dsus2 alternations)

  A                                   F#m
  Her green plastic wateringcan
                                       E   D
  For her fake chinese rubberplant
                A     D
  In fake plastic earth
  A                                             F#m  
  That she bought from a rubberman
                                 E   D
  In a town full of rubberplants
             A         D
  To get rid of itself
       Bm        A
  It wears her out   (4x)

  She lives with a broken man
  A cracked polysterene man
  Who just crumbles and burns
  
  He used to do surgery
  For girls in the eighties
  But gravity always wins and

  It wears him out   (4x)

  She looks like the real thing
  She tastes like the real thing
  My fake plastic love

  But I can't help the feeling
  I could blow through the ceiling
  If I just turn and run
  
  It wears me out   (4x)

                Bm
  If I could be what you wanted
                A
  If I could be what you wanted   
            Bm  
  All the time

__________________________________________________________
                                                                                                             
  Apologies for any mistakes                                          
   Peace, love etc.                                                    
                          Stephan                 

  stephan.fischer@uni-regensburg.de 

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