Subsistence

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:16:58 -0400
From: Remi Despres
Subject: c/collins_edwyn/*

tab by Remi Despres (*)
sometimes in 1998


from the album Gorgeous George


Notes:
A7 is be played a few different ways...
Where A7 is called for, play [- 0 2 0 2 0]
Where A7* is noted play [- 0 2 0 2 3]
D7 also...
D7 is [- 0 0 2 1 2]
D7(V) - [5 5 7 5 7 5]
D7(V)* - [5 5 7 5 7 8]

I suggest listening to the recording for the timing on the D7 - D7(V) - D7(V)* progression

There are two low E notes plucked off beat during the intro
Intro picking pattern is played very softly, strumming starts at the end

Intro:

C               E            Am            ?              F
----------------------------------------------------------------------| 
----------1------------0------------1-------------1-------------1-----| 
----------0------------1------------2-------------3-------------2-----| 
------2------2-----2------2----2------2-------2------2-------3-----3--| 
--3--------------------------0-------------1--------------------------| 
----------------0-----------------------------------------1-----------| 


E7              A
---------------------| 
--------3----------2-| 
--------1---------2--| 
----2------2-----2---| 
----------------0----| 
-0-------------------| 

Verse 1

A                               C#7
You may find                    As I have found
F#m                             A7                 A7*
This place is neither           Safe nor sound
D                                          F#7
This house of cards             Will tumble down
Bm                              D7               D7(V)   D7(V)*
As befits                       A cardboard town

         C                         F
You're lost in the ruins of your mind
                      C
As these four walls collide
                       G       G7
As your whole world subsides
     C                         F
But you took it all in your stride
                 C
As a matter of course
        G         C
Not a matter of pride


E
A                                       C#7
So raise your glass             Let's celebrate
        F#m                              A7     A7*
'Cause we can force             Those 'hands of fate'
D                            F#7
No need to heed the call for greed,     for acquisition
         Bm                                D7        D7(V)  D7(V)*
Now I ain't puttin' you on      This is my genuine position

[Chorus]

E E7
Am               Em                               F           C  Em
How can I thank you             We're forever in your debt
          Am            Em                         F
We'll bite the hand of fate that feeds us
                  Dm    Dsus4   Dm   Dsus4  Dm  Dsus4
Morsels of regret


[chorus]

F                          G       G7                   C
As a matter of course   Not a matter of pride