Hey guys, greetings from Valparaíso, Chile.
Here are the notes and the tuning (D tuning) you should use to play Elephant properly.
This is my first tab ever, so I hope it will be useful for y'all.
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"Well he feels like an elephant, shaking his
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big grey trunk for the hell of it" "He knows
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that you're dreaming
about being loved by
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him"
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"Too bad your
chances are slim".
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"And is not like Mr. Shuck to get shy
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when they ask him who is on top" "There must
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be something deep
down in the dark down
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there"
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"He's not too
easily scared".
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"He's got friends but they got fear
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Wouldn't care too much if he just disappeared" "Oh, look
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see there
he is now coming down the
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stairs"
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"Here he comes".
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1:15
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tame_impala/elephant_btab_ver_3.html ]
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1:46
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"He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac (Yeah!)
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'Cause he doesn't like it
looking like he looks back" "He talks
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like his opinion is a simple
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fact"
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"Somebody grabbed his collar
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He cried the whole way home" "No one
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been remembered a
thing when they saw him
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again"
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"That's how it is
'til the end" Yeah!
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Thanks a lot for reading this tab, hope you liked it!
