Richard Thompson – Sweetheart On The Barricade (Guitar Tab)

    Bm     Ddim(B)   Em      F#      F+
e|---2---|---1---|---0---|---2---|---2---|
B|---3---|---0---|---0---|---2---|---3---|
G|---4---|---1---|---0---|---3---|---3---|
D|---4---|-------|-------|---4---|---4---|
B|---0---|---0---|---0---|-------|-------|
E|-------|-------|-------|---2---|---2---|

[Intro] (this is probably not 100% exact but close)

   Bm                  Ddim(B)                Em                   N.C.
e|----------2---2-----|-------1---1---1-----|-------0---0---0----|-6-7-2-3-0-2-------------|
B|----------------3---|-----0-----------0---|-----0--------------|-------------3-0-2---0-2-|
G|------4-----------4-|---1---1---1---1---1-|---0---0---0---0----|-6-7-2-4-0-2-------3-----|
D|----4-----4---4-----|---------------------|--------------------|-------------4-0-2---0-2-|
B|-0------------------|-0-------------------|-0----------------0-|-------------------2-----|
E|--------------------|---------------------|--------------------|-------------------------|

   Bm        F#(F+)
e|------------------|
B|------2-----3---2-|
G|------3-----3-----|
D|----4-------4-----|
B|-0----------------|
E|----------2-------|

   Basic picking pattern:         Fill 1:               Fill 2:
e|---------------------------|  |------0--2-3--2-0-|  |--------------------|
B|------3---------2----------|  |------------------|  |-0----0--2-3--2-0---|
G|------4---------3----------|  |----0-0--2-4--2-0-|  |------0--0-0--0-0---|
D|----4----4----4---4---etc.-|  |------------------|  |----0---------------|
B|-0-------------------------|  |------------------|  |--------------------|
E|-----------2---------------|  |-0----------------|  |--------------------|

[Verse 1] Bm F# Bm Em They closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company Bm F# Em (Fill 1) We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me Bm Em Ddim(B) We blocked the street, now the lorries come and turn about G There's nothing getting in there and there's nothing getting out [Chorus] D G Oh, she's just a tender thing D G She's risking life and limb Bm A G (Fill 2) My sweetheart's on the barricade D G My heart it skips a beat D G There'll be fighting in the street Bm A G (to F# bass) But hungry folk forget to be afraid Em F# Bm Ddim N.C. Bm F#(F+) (as intro, without the Em) My sweetheart's on the barricade Second verse and chorus as before; end chorus as follows: Bm for two bars, to A on the fourth quarter note of the second bar ...barricade [Bridge] D A She's running leaflets through the alley D A She's passing hymn books at the rally F# Halleluiah! [Solo] Bm F# Bm Em end chorus on Bm (four bars) [Breakdown] G Friends and neighbours, won't you join the cause D Drill it in the tiny minds of them that make the laws G That workers are human, we're really just the same E7 We've got to have the nourishment to fill a human frame [Chorus] Bm G Oh, we're people not a mob Bm G And we only wants a job Bm A G My sweetheart's on the barricade Bm G We've had it up to here Bm G Too numb to feel the fear Bm A G My sweetheart's on the barricade Em F# My heart it skips a beat Em F# There'll be fighting in the street Em F# Bm Ddim(B) Em N.C. Bmmaj7 (quasi; see below) My sweetheart's on the barricade Final notes:

e|-----------6-|
B|---0-3-----3-|
G|-------6---6-|
D|-------------|
B|-0-----------|
E|-------------|