Artist: Tears for fears
Song: Ladybird
Tabbed by: DJ
23rd Mar 2013
Tuning: Standard
A catchy number from their 'Everybody loves a happy ending' album.
The chorus may need some practise, and careful listening to,
with it's bars of varying time signatures.
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Em7 Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9
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Em7 Cadd9
Tell me a story of mind over matter,
Em7 Cadd9
The hope and the glory of life ever after,
Em7 Cadd9
The sound and the fury, the cloak and the dagger,
A7 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
Days when we sink like a stone! /_/_/ | /_/_/ /_/_/ |
Em7 Cadd9
Porcelain portraits on silver medallions,
Em7 Cadd9
Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions,
Em7 Cadd9
Angels of mercy, and lifelong companions,
A7 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
Days when we sink like a stone! /_/_/ | /_/_/ /_/_/ |
Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
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Em7 Cadd9
There's a room, somewhere, with a different look,
Em7 Cadd9
Where your secret life is an open book,
Em7 Cadd9
Where the love we made was a chance we took,
A7 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
Days when we sink like a stone!
Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
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B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire!
Em7 Cadd9
Let us be lovers, we'll melt after midnight,
Em7 Cadd9
Hoist up the main sail, and coast through to daylight,
Em7 Cadd9
Twisted like candles that fade in the half-light,
A7 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
Days when we sink like a stone!
Em7 Cadd9
Well, we die, sometimes, to be - gin again,
Em7 Cadd9
When the same old dreams have the same old end,
Em7 Cadd9
When we lose our mind, or we lose our friends,
A7 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
Days when we sink like a stone!
Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tears_for_fears/ladybird_crd_ver_2.html ]
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire,
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire!
E Esus4 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
Porcelain portraits on silver me - dallions,
(Your friends have gone----!)
E Esus4 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
Plasticine soldiers that march in bat - talions,
(Your friends have gone----!)
E Esus4 Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9 Cadd9#11
Angels of mercy, and lifelong com - panions!
(Your friends have gone----!)
Em7 Cadd9
Tell me a story of mind over matter,
Em7 Cadd9
The hope and the glory of life ever after,
Em7 Cadd9
The sound and the fury, the cloak and the dagger!
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire,
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire!
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire,
B7 Em7 D C Em
Ladybird, fly a - way, your friends are gone,
B7 Em7 D C Em7 Dsus2
Ladybird, fly a - way, your house is on fire!
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Em7 = 022030 D = xx0232
Cadd9 = x32033 C = x32010
A7 = x02020 Dsus2 = xx0230
Cadd9#11 = x30032 Em = 022000
B7 = x21202 E = 022100
Esus4 = 022200
Descending riff, emphasise the top strings:
Cadd9 Cadd9#11 Cadd9
e|---2--2-2----2--2-2---|---0--0-0-------------|
B|---2--2-2----3--3-3---|---2--2-2----2--2-2---|
G|---0--0-0----0--0-0---|---0--0-0----0--0-0---|
D|---2---------0--------|---2---------2--2-2---|
A|---3---------3--------|---3---------3--------|
E|----------------------|----------------------|
