Status Quo - Twenty Wild Horses Chords & Tabs

tabbed marcus lubbock
status quo
twenty wild horses

The opener of Under The Influence. It hasn't got a drive as most of the
songs of this album but it's a good song. I like the lyrics. I wrote it
down in C sharp, but I could have written it down in D-flat just as well.

1. Chords and rythm

The basic rhythm during the song (except for the intro and first verse)
sounds like this:

    1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
E||--------------------------||
B||*------------------------*||
G||--------------------------||
D||-4---4-4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4--||
A||*4---4-4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4-*||
E||-2---2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2--||
    d   u d u d d   u d u d
    .           .                play notes above dots short!

.

Intro:      C#5    C#5sus4
          EADGBE   EADGBE
          XX669X   XX667X

Verse 1:    F#5      F#5sus2     C#5        C#5sus4    E5sus2    B5sus2
          EAD G BE   EAD G BE   EA D GBE   EA D G BE   EADG BE   EAD GBE
          X91111XX   X91113XX   91111XXX   9111111XX   X7911XX   7911XXX

Verse 2:    F#5       C#5        E5       B5
          EAD G BE   EA D GBE   EADGBE   EADGBE
          X91111XX   91111XXX   X799XX   799XXX


Chorus:     C#5      F#5     C#       F#      for the          C#7
          EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE   last chorus:    EADGBE
          X466XX   244XXX   X4666X   244322                   X4646X


Break:     G#       C#      F#/A#     B        D#m      A#m
          EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE
          466544   X4666X   X1432X   X2444X   X68876   X13321

           C#5        F#          F#5        B
          EA D GBE   EAD G B E   EADGBE   EADGBE
          91111XXX   XX111111X   XX467X   XX444X

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2. Song structure and lyrics:

Intro: |C#5      |C#5   C#sus4| C#5      |C#5   C#sus4|
       |C#5      |C#5   C#sus4| C#5      |C#5   C#sus4|
       |C#5      |C#5   C#sus4| C#5      |C#5   C#sus4| hold chord ad lib.
       |F#5      |F#5         |F#5       |F#5         |
                                              (how do you)

Verse:
[F#5]How do you do? Tell me how [C#5]are you?
Have you been [E5sus2]well?
Give my re-[B5sus2]gards to the [C#5sus4]world [C#5]
[F#5]Hand on my heart, I didn't [C#5]do what they say
Cos I would [E5sus2]rather be blind
[Bsus2]or lose my mind com- [F#5sus2]pletely [F#5]

Chorus:
Twenty Wild [C#5]Horses and five hundred man
They couldn't [F#5]drag me that far down again
Give me a [C#5]colt 45 to my head
so I can [F#5]say I'd be better off dead
Straight as an [C#5]arrow I'll make a new start
What can I [F#5]tell you, it's straight from the heart

Verse 2:
I have a [F#5]dream and it's the [C#5]same every night
I sleep with [E5]you, everything [B5]seems to be right [C#5]
Beyond [F#5]belief
When I a- [C#5]wake and I find, that I am [E5]stuck in this place
My [B5]back's to the wall com- [F#5]pletely

Chorus

Bridge:
[G#]So what can I [C#]say?
[F#/A#]Seems that in [B]here I find [D#m]everyone is [C#]innocent

|A#m    |B     |D#m    |C#     |A#m    |B     |D#m    |

|C#5       |C#5      F#| 2x
|F#5       |F#5      B | 2x
|C#5       |C#5      F#|C#5       |C#5        |

Verse 3:
All I can [F#5]do    is hope and [C#5]pray for an end
I've had e- [E5]nough, but that don't [B5]change anything [C#5]
Hand on my [F#5]heart, I didn't [C#5]do what they say
Now at the [E5]end of the line
I'm [B5]loosing my mind com- [F#5]pletely

Chorus plus:
Twenty Wild [C#5]Horses and five hundred man
They couldn't [C#5]drag me that far down a- [C#7]gain

Repeat and fade out
|F#5       |F#5      B |2x
|C#5       |C#5      F#|2x

Twenty wild horses (repeat)

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3. Tabs

Intro:
Rythm guitar

For the intro-part you have to emphasize every first not of the triplet
As far as I can hear it's played with alternated up and down strokes
so you have to emphasize upstrokes to. This is the pattern:

>   >   >   >              > = the note that has to be emphasized
dud udu dud udu

This may require some practice but once mastered you can use it in
other quo-songs too.


   1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +  1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
E||------------------------|------------------------||
B||------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-||
G||6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||
D||6-----------------------|------------------------||
A||------------------------|------------------------||
E||------------------------|------------------------||

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/status_quo/twenty_wild_horses_tab.html ]
    1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +  1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
E||------------------------|------------------------||
B||9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-||
G||6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||
D||----6-------------------|------------------------||
A||------------------------|------------------------||
E||------------------------|------------------------||

   3x
    1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +  1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
E||-------------------------|-------------------------||
B||*9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-*||
G||-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--|| the 3rd time,
D||-6-----------------------|-------------------------|| replace last bar
A||*------------------------|------------------------*|| by bar hereunder
E||-------------------------|-------------------------||


E|------------------------|
B|9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-----| Hold chord ad lib.
G|6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-----|
D|------------------6-----|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|

   leadguitar:
   4x
E||-------------------------|---------------------------||
B||*----6-9-6-------6-7-6---|----6-9-6-------6-7---(7)-*||
G||-6-8-------8-6-8-------8-|6-8-------8-6-8------------||
D||-------------------------|---------------------------||
A||*------------------------|--------------------------*||
E||-------------------------|---------------------------||

Verse 1:
This is my interpretation of how the first verse is accompanied but...
don't take my word for it. As far as I can hear, two guitars are picking
separate intervals of the chords I gave above for verse one. Taking this
as a starting-point I come to the conclusion that the two guitars are
playing the following notes:

             E|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||
             B|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||
 Guitar 1    G|11|11|13|13|11|11|11|13||11|11|13|13|11|11|13|11||
             D|11|11|11|11|9-|9-|9-|11||11|11|11|11|9-|9-|11|11||
             A|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||
             E|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||


             E|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||
             B|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||
 Guitar 2    G|--|--|--|--|9-|9-|--|--||--|--|--|--|9-|--|--|11||
             D|11|11|11|11|9-|9-|11|11||11|11|11|11|9-|11|11|11||
             A|9-|9-|11|11|--|--|9-|11||9-|9-|11|11|--|9-|9-|9-||
             E|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--||

Only the two guitars together are making the chords. So if you want
to play it on your own you can make a mixture (see the chords
I indicated for verse 1).
I play the intervals like this:

E|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|11-11-11----11----11-11-11----11----|
D|---------11----11----------11----11-|
A|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|

Here will follow the bars between the intro and verse one:

E|--|-----------------------------------|
B|--|-----------------------------------|
G|6/|11---11----11----11-11-11----11----|
D|6/|11------11----11----------11----11-|
A|--|-----------------------------------|
E|--|-----------------------------------|

    2x
E||-------------------------------------||
B||*------------------------------------||
G||-11-11-11----11----11-11-11----11----||
D||----------11----11----------11----11-||
A||*------------------------------------||
E||-------------------------------------||

Chorus:
You can find the chords and rhythm of the chorus above. During the
second and third chorus the other guitar is playing the full chords
on the first beat and keeps it ringing for two bars and strikes the
other chord.


Break:
I can't really hear the guitarparts during the break 'cause it's
absorbed in the totalsound. I think one guitar is pumping the
powerchords (G#5, C#5) and the other one is strumming the full
chords with a cleaner sound. That's an important thing to know
by the way. When you want richer chords but also powerchords,
play the powerchord with a distorted guitar and the full chords
with a clean guitar. Some full chords sound awful on a distorted
guitar (try for example Cmaj7 X3545X).

Little solo:
       .  pre-bend
E|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
B|-------(18)r16-------|------------|------|----------|
G|--11b13--------15-16~|~~~~~~-16b18|b20~~~|r18~~~r16\|
D|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
A|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
E|---------------------|------------|------|----------|

E|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
B|-------(18)r16-------|-------16b18|b19~~~|r18~~~r16\|
G|--11b13--------15-16~|~~~~~\------|------|----------|
D|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
A|---------------------|------------|------|----------|
E|---------------------|------------|------|----------|

Overdub on the solo (or played with harmonizer)
E|----|---------|------|---------|----|------|------|----------|
B|----|---------|------|---------|----|------|------|----------|
G|----|-----8b10|b11~~~|r10~~~r8\|----|-16b18|b20~~~|r18~~~r16\|
D|----|---------|------|---------|----|------|------|----------|
A|----|---------|------|---------|----|------|------|----------|
E|----|---------|------|---------|----|------|------|----------|

During the second part the intro-reedle is coming in again. You
find it above. During the F#5 chords the same pattern is played
in the 11th position.