Death Cab for Cutie – Lowell Ma (Guitar)

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I've gotten some very bad ratings on this song and I REALIZE that it is not going to be perfectly true to the original since the original is only guitar riffs. That said, I wanted to make a version that I could play that sounded fairly accurate so I came up with this. If you're wondering how to play this tab, I made a youtube video of myself playing it. You can find it I would really appreciate it if you would watch the video before rating the tab. Hopefully it will clear things up Notes on the video: - obviously it's on piano and not guitar, but I have put the chords in so you know where they are - it is transposed six half-steps down because that's the key I sing it in So though it is far from perfect I think that it works well enough, but please let me know if you have suggestions. Thanks! [Intro] G F#m Bm A G F#m Bm A G F#m Bm A G F#m Bm A [Verse 1]
G      F#m      Bm            A          G
You've been forewarned of the shake-shakedown

 F#m             Bm     A
Opinions stamped on the pulp of the 

G         F#m       Bm       A          G      F#m   Bm   A
Tabloid newsstand gossip in stacks at your door
[Verse 2]
G   F#m           Bm      A
You swallowed the last of free MA

G   F#m          Bm      A        G
Car starts, four windows lowered away

     F#m      Bm         A     G   F#m   Bm   A
Last views of cityscapes crumbling
[Break] Bm G Bm G G F#m Bm A G F#m Bm A [Verse 3]
G  F#m      Bm     A
Skyscrapers sink into the ground

G   F#m        Bm                A   G
All static, no noise... turn the radio down.

      F#m       Bm            A        G    F#m   Bm   A
Those bandwidth signals can't reach this far.
[B-section]
Bm   G                  Bm   
     Don't go holding 

G               Bm
Out on me now

G                   Bm   G
Don't go holding...

Bm             G               F#m
I thought that you had come to expect 

F#m            Em                     Bm
I thought that you had come to expect more

Bm             G               F#m
I thought that you had come to expect 

F#m            Em                     Bm
I thought that you had come to expect more
[Break] Bm G F#m F#m Em Bm G F#m F#m Em G F#m Bm A G F#m Bm A [Verse 1]
G      F#m      Bm            A          G
You've been forewarned of the shake-shakedown

 F#m             Bm     A
Opinions stamped on the pulp of the 

G         F#m       Bm       A          G      F#m   Bm   A
Tabloid newsstand gossip in stacks at your door
[B-section]
Bm   G                  Bm   
     Don't go holding 

G               Bm
Out on me now

G                Bm  
Don't go holding

G               Bm
Out on me now

G                  F#m  
Don't go holding 

Em               Bm
Out on me now

G                 F#m   Em   B5
Don't go holding...