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Move Away Jimmy Blue Tab

by Del Amitri



This another Song of the 1989 album "waking hours" by Del Amitri.
Beside "this side of morning" and "nothing ever happens" it is one
of my favourites. I figured it out by ear, so it might be different
from the record. I post it anyway...


Some hints for the notation:

1. ===    hold note
2. ==3==  triplet

MOVE AWAY JIMMY BLUE				J. Currie/I. Harvie
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Intro:
         ==3==  ==3== ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------o------0-----o-----|----7--7===================|
|------2---2------2-----2---|----8--8===================|
|----3-------3------3-----3-|---------------------------|
|-2-------------------------|--7------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|

         ==3==  ==3== ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------o------0-----o-----|----7--7===================|
|------2---2------2-----2---|----8--8===================|
|----3-------3------3-----3-|---------------------------|
|-2-------------------------|--7------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|

A struck match faded like a  nervous laugh    Beyond the
         ==3==                     ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0-----------|--------0-----0------------|
|------2---2-------2---2----|------2---2------2---2-----|
|----3-------3-------3------|----3-------3------3-------|
|-2-------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|-0-------------------------|


 halo of a       naked       bulb             And your
         ==3==                     ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0-----------|--------0-----0------------|
|------2---2-------2---2----|------2---2------2---2-----|
|----3-------3-------3------|----3-------3------3-------|
|-2-------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|-0-------------------------|


 low  voice   mingles with your other half's
         ==3==                     ==3==
|------------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0--------------|--------0-----0------------|
|------2---2-------2---2-------|------2---2------2---2-----|
|----3-------3-------3---------|----3-------3------3-------|
|-2----------------------------|---------------------------|
|------------------------------|-0-------------------------|


Schoolfriends in secondhand  clothes.
         ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0-----------|----7--7===================|
|------2---2-------2---2----|----8--8===================|
|----3-------3-------3------|---------------------------|
|-2-------------------------|-7-------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|


Eventually your world will   shrink within four walls  Or
         ==3==                     ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0-----------|--------0-----0------------|
|------2---2-------2---2----|------2---2------2---2-----|
|----3-------3-------3------|----3-------3------3-------|
|-2-------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|-0-------------------------|

neglected  steps   from      stolen stereos   So move
         ==3==                       ==3==
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------0------0-----------|--------0-----0------------|
|------2---2-------2---2----|------2---2------2---2-----|
|----3-------3-------3------|----3-------3------3-------|
|-2-------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|-0-------------------------|


(strum from now on)

 F#        E
away Jimmy Blue

            F#                       E
Before your small, small town turns around


             B
and swallows you.

        B              E
A drunk mother was the clue

           B                         E
Before the legendary things that you do

           B                  E
Behind the carnival tent with mud on your face

           B                E
behind the old glue factory too

        F#         E
So move away Jimmy Blue

            F#                       E
before your small, small town turns around

             B
and swallows you.

B                    E
  Wet feet visit the same old places

B                 E
  Finding nothing new

       B                      E
It's a binful of tissues from made-up faces

    B                       E
in a townfull of nothing to do

  F#                 E
A lovematch with the moon

     F#                   E
in a layby, while insects hum
                       F#                   E
and you got put in the darkness of a womans womb

      B    E B E
Jimmy Blue


        B     E
So move away, yeh

        B     E
So move away, yeh

         B         E
So move away Jimmy Blue

           F#                        E
before your small, small town turns around

and swallows


         ==3==  ==3==                   ==3==  ==3==
|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|--------0------0-----0-------|--------0------0-----0-------|
|------2---2------2-----2---2-|------2---2------2-----2---2-|
|----3-------3------3-----3---|----3-------3------3-----3---|
|-2---------------------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|-0---------------------------|


(play while fading...)


That's it. Hope you like it...   Juergen


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Juergen Helmers                   Freie Universitaet Berlin
Lab.: + 49.30.838 24 54           Institut fuer Biochemie
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