This is my personal favorite song by my personal favorite band. I encourage you to buy
their stuff.
Some other tabs have said capo on the 5th, I use it on the 4th. I'll leave it up to you
which sounds better.
**********THIS IS A HUGE PART OF GETTING THIS TO SOUND RIGHT****************
For lack of a better term, I'll refer to this as C7, but I know it's not. Simply play a
C, but lift your first finger. Whatever the hell it is, play it like this:
C7
e|--0--|
B|--0--|
G|--0--|
D|--2--|
A|--3--|
E|--0--|
Together the verse line will be:
C C7 Am G
That being said, here it is:
C C7 Am G
Missy got off the bus one day
C C7 Am G
In a crowded depot in downtown L.A.
C C7 Am G F
She looked around as if to say "I'm home"
C
But I'm home.
C C7 Am G
I find someone to love and some place to drink
C C7 Am G
And some time when I can just sit and think
C C7 Am G F
And I don't mind if I catch the stink of these drones
C
Lord of these drones
F G
Said as long as I'm never alone
F C
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_airborne_toxic_event/missy_crd.html ]
C C7 Am G
She had eyes as big as porceline plates
C C7 Am G
And skin as thin as paper drapes
C C7 Am G F
And she loved the lord the way an apostate loves songs
F C
C C7 Am G
And she'd sing to him before she went to sleep
C C7 Am G
"I pray to you my soul to keep
C C7 Am G F
Your shepard and I'll be your sheep until dawn
C
Oh until dawn"
F C G F C
She said "I'd follow you even if it was wrong"
C C7 Am G
I met her one night at the coffee shop
C C7 Am G
Her face so wide my heart just stopped
C C7 Am G F
Hello my dear I fear I'm not what I seem
C
I'm not what I seem
C C7 Am G
I should've been a better man
C C7 Am G
I should be more deserving than
C C7 Am G F
The beggar, thief, and courtesan I've been
C
Oh that I've been
F C G F C
But I swear, I lie, I curse all of my dreams
C C7 Am G
But I swear there's still some good in me
C C7 Am G
If you stuck around I think you'd see
C C7 Am G F
All the honest attempts at integrity I've been had
C C7 Am G
Maybe if you helped me I could get it right
C C7 Am G
I lie awake every night
C C7 Am G F
Staring at the cieling wondering why I feel so bad
C
Why I feel so bad
F C G F C
But I swear, I swear, I swear I'll never get sad
End on C
That's about it. If it doesn't sound right, you're probably playing a real C7 instead of
lifting your first finger. Hope this helped.
