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- From: ericbe@microsoft.com (Eric Berman)
- Subject: Possum! Chords
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.225855.29807@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 22:58:55 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- Lines: 105
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- Hi all. Looks like I missed out on one hell of a New Year's Eve
- show. Oh, well. Had fun in Vancouver, B.C. anyhow.
-
- I was going through the chords file one day
- Someone missed a possum...
-
- I posted the solo a few weeks ago (all right, so it was only 2/3 of
- the solo, so shoot me). Then I noticed that nobody had posted the
- chords to Possum. Sooo....here they are! Enjoy.
-
- Consider them added to the chords file; look for them at an FTP site
- near you sometime in the next week or two.
-
- --Eric Berman
-
- ----------------------------
-
- The chords in this song are played in a sort of bouncy-manner. The best way
- that I've found to play the E chord in this song is to play it in the open
- position like this:
-
- E|------|--
- B|------|--
- G|---2--|--
- D|---4--|--
- A|---3--|--
- E|------|--
- 1st 2nd fret
-
- (2nd finger = your middle finger, 1st = your index finger, etc.)
- The idea is that you use lift off and hammer on your 2nd finger to rock
- between Em, E and Esus4 in a riff like this (switching to tab notation)
-
- Em Esus4 E
- H H H
- E|---0----0----0---0--0--0------------------------|
- B|---0----0----0---0--0--0------------------------|
- G|---0-1--2----0-1-2--2--0-1----------------------|
- D|---2----2----2---2--2--2------------------------|
- A|---2----2----2---2--2--2------------------------|
- E|-0-----------------------------------------------|
- \----+ \--------------+
-
- The Em is played for about 8th-note duration; the overall chord is an E and
- the G (open G string) of the Em and the sus4 are nothing more than passing
- tones.
-
- Trey does some other stuff here, mostly noodling around on these chords,
- that I'm not going to write out, but listen to any recording and he'll do
- something different yet interesting; I'll just show the underlying chords
- below.
-
- E riff
- I come from atop the mountain baby
- Where the people come to pray
- A
- I come from atop the mountain baby
- E
- Where the people come to pray
- B
- Ain't no truth in action
- G A E
- Less you believe any way
-
- (Same chords)
- I was riding down the road one day
- Someone hit a possum
- I was riding down the road one day
- Someone hit a possum
- The road was his end
- His end was the road
- So they say
-
- Chorus:
- E (hold 4 bars) E (riff)
- Whoa possum... possum
- A (hold 4 bars) E (riff)
- Whoa possum... possum
- B
- Whoa possum
- G A E
- Your end is the road
-
- (Solo goes here)
-
- (Same chords as earler verse
- I was riding down the road one day
- Someone hit a possum
- I was riding down the road one day
- Someone hit a possum
- The road was his end
- His end was the road
- So they say
-
- chorus:
-
- E (hold 8 bars) E (riff)
- Whoa possum... possum
- A (hold 8 bars) E (riff)
- Whoa possum... possum
- B G A E
- Whoa possum your end is the road
- B G A E
- Whoa possum your end is the road
-
-