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Red Rabbits Tab

by Shins


This tab is only about 95% complete because I couldn't figure out a couple of the
on two chords quite (find the ??s, win a prize!).  But this should more than get you started
a very simple song.

I figured it out on an acoustic guitar and keyed it to match the CD.  I did it with a
on the first fret to play the whole thing using simpler open chords.  For beginners, this
the chord name used ONLY represents the chord shape.  So when you play a G with capo, 
actually playing Ab/G#, C=C#, etc.

The open chords I used:

 = 320001
 = x32010
F = 113211 (or xx3211 if you don't want to barre it)
= 022000
= x02210
 = x00232

Any help with the parts I missed or if you'd just like to share how lame I am for

Cheers

CAPO FIRST FRET


INTRO

        
       
              
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Hurled to the center of the earth again

                     
The place where it’s hot love

                              
You know it hurts to breathe in

                                  
And the watershed you balance on is begging it

             ??                  
Well did he ever know?  Will he ever know?

                                
The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice

                             
So you catalogue every angle you notice

                            
In a vacuum you are charged to record this

        ??                  
So you won’t make it easy on me


CHORUS:

                       
I can’t go into this no more

                              
It puts too many thorns on my mind

                                 
And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor

                          
We’ve pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites

             
And they’re all standing up for their rights


      
     

                                  
Born on a desert floor, you’ve the deepest thirst

                                
And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it

                                   
With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan

              ??                    
But there was not enough, there is not enough

                       
Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits

                              
Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion

                                  
And we can’t allow a chance they’d restore themselves

       ??                   
So we can’t make it easy on you

CHORUS #2

                              
Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries

                               
The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes

                             
A reward for letting nothing under their skin

                       
So help me I don’t know, I might

                                  ?  
Just give the ole Dark Side a try


BRIDGE

                                   
Don’t cast your willing eyes on the shore

                        ?  
‘til we even the score

                                   
I still owe you for he hole in the floor

                           ?   
And the ghost in the hall

                                 
Who decides who paddles over the falls?

…
Yeah, who makes the call?  Who makes the call?

(INSTRUMENTAL OVER VERSE PROGRESSION x2)

        
       
              
??   

        
       
              


CHORUS #3

                      
I know there’s an eventual

                            
Release from every scale of crime

                                 
But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor

                                 
We’ve pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions

            
Held by cle-ver sprites

             
And they’re all standing up for their rights