Go By Tabs & Lyrics by Elliott Smith

Go By

guitar tabs lyrics

Elliott Smith

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Go By - Elliott Smith
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Tabbed by: ciaran rooney

Tuning: DGCFAD

From "New Moon", disk one. It's played in D tuning (DGCFAd)

The intro is based around E major, you play the bottom string parts with your baby finger

d|---2--2--O-----2--3--O----------------------------------------------|
A|---O-----------O----------------------------------------------------|
F|---1-----------1----------------------------------------------------|
C|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-O----------O-------------------------------------------------------|

Here's the chords:

E G

.. Go on parade and fade
(F#m) C
Hit the ceiling slow
G Em
Spending all your time with some girl
C
You'll never get to know
G (F#m) c
Wound up tight
G Em
Dressed all in white
D A
Some torment saint
C
Blowing out to drift
A C D
... Leave you even if

G Em
You live up in your head
(F#m) C
Scared of every little noise
G Em
Someone's always breaking in accidentally
C
Using nothing but their voice
G C
Shrill and small
G Em
Echo down the hall
D A
Repeating pet names
C
Seeing it in your eyes
A C
... You're only passing by

Chorus:

C#dim D D# Em
. . . . . . . Go by
C#dim D5 (slide to) E5 C
... Go by

E G
Someone's in the way
(F#m) C
Pretty words and inside slurs
G
All the things they have to say
Em C
To perform the work that they've rehearsed
G C
It's a waste of time
G Em
I put it behind me
D A
Once and for all
C
And let the hype decline
A C
.. If the problem wasn't mine

Repeat chorus, finish on C

Here's some of the lead guitar parts which play over the verse.

.. Spending all your time .... Wound up tight .. Dressed all in white
d|-10--8---7--8---7---------------10----8-----7------10----7--8---7--------|
A|-12--10--8--10--8---------------12----10----8------12----8--10--8--------|
F|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

.. Some torment ....
d|------10-------------------------5-----5----5----------------------------|
A|---8-----10-8-10-8--8--5-------5---5-5---55------------------------------|
F|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

You'll need to listen to the song to figure out how these lead parts fit in with
the chords as they're quite tricky
Corrections welcome!