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The Real Folk Blues Tab

by The Seatbelts


Title - The Real Folk Blues
Composer - Yoko Kanno
Performed by - Seatbelts feat. Mai Yamane
Album - Cowboy Bebop OST

This is the full version of the end theme from Cowboy Bebop. I found the Cowboy Bebop
OST Band score, but that didn't provide tabs or chord boxes - all electric guitar
parts were written in standard notation, and all acoustic guitar parts written with
chord names and slash notation. So I had to figure out an easy way of playing the
acoustic guitar chords. Here's what I came up with, as well as the lyrics and approx.
where the chords go in relation to them.

	|E A D G B e|
	|-----------|
	|2 4 2 2 2 2|
(add9)	|x 0 2 2 2 0|
or	|x 0 2 2 0 0|
(b5)|x x 1 2 2 2|
	|x x 0 2 2 2|
	|x 2 4 2 4 2|
	|0 2 2 1 0 0|
	|x 2 4 4 3 2|
/	|x 4 2 2 2 4|
	|x 4 6 4 7 4|
	|x 4 6 4 6 4|
	|2 4 4 2 2 2|
/	|0 4 4 2 2 2|
/	|x x 1 2 0 2|
/	|x x 3 4 2 4|
/|x 4 2 2 0 0|
(9)/|x 2 4 2 2 2|

One of the trickiest fingerings is the B7/D# - C#7/F. I play it using this fingering:
/		/
______		______
||2|||		||||||
|||3|4	slide	||||1|
||||||	up to:	||2|||
||||||		|||3|4

With the B7(9)/F#, you could probably just play a B7/F# and fill in the (9) with other
parts if you like.

-Intro.
      D#m7b5   (repeat)

-Verse 1
		
Aishi-teta to nageku ni wa
			    	
Amari ni mo toki wa sugi te shimatta
		
Mada kokoro no hokorobi o
		     
Iyasenumama kaze ga fuiteru

-Verse 2 (same as v.1)
Hitotsu no me de asu o mite
Hitotsu no me de kinou mitsumeteru
Kimi no ai no yurikagode
Mo ichido yasurakani nemuretara 

-Pre-Chorus
   /    D#m7b5 		   
Kawaita hitomi de dareka na itekure

-Chorus
	 
The real folk blues
  	 		 /
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
	/	  /		     D#m7b5 
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
	/  
Ichido kiri de      owarunara


-Verse 3 (same as v.1)
Kibou ni michita zetsuboto
Wanagashikakerareteru kono chansu
Nani ga yoku te warui no ka
Koin no omoi to kuramitaita

-Pre-chorus 2.
Dore dake ikireba iyasareru no darou

-2nd Chorus
	 
The real folk blues
  	 		/
Honto no yorokobi ga shiritai dake
       /	/ 
Hikaru mono no subete ga ougen to wa kagiranai

-Chorus (same as first chorus)
The real folk blues
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
Ichido kiri de owarunara

F#m7 (eight measures)

 /  (9)/ (repeat and fade)

That's all she wrote. Literally.


Thanks!