Talking Heads – The Big Country (Guitar Tab)

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TALKINGHEADS Intro:

Guitar 1
play with a slide and let all the notes ring
|-------||----------------------------------------||
|-/7----||:------9-----9/12---12-12/14----14/19--:||
|-/7----||--------9-9--9/12---12-12/14----14/19---||
|-/7----||---------9---9/12---12-12/14----14/19---||
|-------||:--------------------------------------:||
|-------||----------------------------------------||

|Guitar 2
|  D             E       G           A        D
|--2----||-------0-------3----3-3-3-----------2---||
|--3----||:------0-------3----3-3-3-----------3--:||
|--2----||-------1-------0----0-0-0--2--------2---||
|--0----||-------2-------0----0-0-0--2--------0---||
|-------||:------2-------2----2-2-2--0-----------:||
|-------||-------0-------3----3-3-3---------------||

Guitar 1 and 2 basically play the same thing throughout the verse... D E I see the shapes, G A I remember from maps. D E I see the shoreline. G A I see the whitecaps. D E G A A baseball diamond, nice weather down there. D E G A I see the school and the houses where the kids are. D E G A Places to park by the fac’tries and buildings. D E G A Restaunts and bar for later in the evening. D E G A Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas. D E G A And I have learned how these things work together. D E G A I see the parkway that passes through them all. D E G A And I have learned how to look at these things and I say, Here's the pattern for the Chorus:

Guitar 1 (slide)
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|-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------|
|-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------|
|-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------|
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|---------------------------------------------|

|Guitar 2
| C         G         F
|-0---------3---------1----1-0-1-0-1-0---------|
|-1---------3---------1----------------1-------|
|-0---------0---------2------------------------|
|-2---------0---------3------------------------|
|-3---------2---------3------------------------|
|-----------3---------1------------------------|

C G F I wouldn’t live there if you paid me. C G F I couldn’t live like that, no siree! C G F I couldn’t do the things the way those people do. C G F I couldn’t live there if you paid me to. Outro: (While he goes Goo goo ga ga ga)

  C                  G                  F
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
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I tabbed this listening to the live version off of The Name of This Band is Talking so it might be a little bit different in some parts from the album version