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7 <title>Summer Days
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">Love And Theft
</a> (
2001)
<br />
18 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
</p>
22 <p>The song is a fairly straightforward rockabilly number, but the guitar
23 parts are far from straightforward. The left channel guitar alternates
24 between the high, ringing playing of the intro and the interludes, and
25 the middle-range alternative in the bridges.
<br />
26 In the right channel there is a guitar with a descending figure, which
27 can even be combined with the intro (see the end of the page for these
28 two tabs). In the bridges, there is a trace of the
“high version
” in
29 this channel, which seems to have been mixed out.
</p>
31 <p>During the verses, the guitar plays the Eb chords on the backbeat:
</p>
35 |-------------------------|
36 |-------------------------|
37 |----
8------
8-----
8-----
8-|
38 |----
8------
8-----
8-----
8-|
39 |---
10-----
10----
10----
10-|
40 |-------------------------|
43 <p>In some verses the return from Bb to Eb in the last line passes
46 <p>I haven't written out the different solos in the interludes, but they
47 follow the same chord pattern as the model in the intro. It can be
48 played in different positions, of course, but if one plays the
49 11-
13-
11-turn with the little finger and keeps a half barre on the
8th
50 fret during the second Ab measure, it is playable as written below.
</p>
58 ------------|-
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60 ------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------
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61 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
62 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
63 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
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66 : . . . : . . . : . . .
67 |-
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11---------------------|--------------------------|----------------
11---
13-|
68 |-
11---
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9----
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69 |-
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11---------------------|
70 |---------
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8h10---|------------------------|
71 |-----------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
72 |-----------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
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75 : . . . : . . . : . . .
76 |-
11--------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
77 |-
11--------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
78 |------
8-
11--
10-
8-------------|-----
8--------------------|/
8------/
8-----------|
79 |--------------------
8--------|--------------------------|---------------------|
80 |----------------------
11---
9-|-
10-----------------------|---------------------|
81 |-----------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
85 : . . . : . . . : . . .
86 |-----------------------------|----------------------------|-----
11-------
11---------|
87 |/
13--
13-----
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11-------
11---------|
88 |/
13--
13-----
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11h12-|-----
12-------
12---------|
89 |-----------------------------|(
13)--------
13----(
13)------|-
13----------------------|
90 |-----------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------|
91 |-----------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------|
96 |-
11--------
11-------------|
97 |-
11--------
11-------------|
98 |-
12--------
12-------------|
99 |-
13--------
13-------------|
100 |--------------------------|
101 |--------------------------|
106 Summer days, summer nights are gone,
108 Summer days and summer nights are gone,
110 I know a place where there's still somethin' goin' on.
112 I got a house on the hill, I got hogs out in the mud,
113 I got a house on the hill, I got hogs all out in the mud,
114 I got a long-haired woman, she got raw Indian blood.
116 Everybody get ready, lift up your glasses and sing,
117 Everybody get ready, lift up your glasses and sing,
118 Well, I'm standin' on the table, I'm proposin' a toast to the king.
121 <pre class=
"tab bridge2">
126 |-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
127 |-
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8--
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8----
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8--------|
128 |-
8---
8--
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8--
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8--
8---
8--|-
8----
8-
8----
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8----
8--------|
129 |-
11--
11-
11--
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10--
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10--
10-|-
9----
9-
9----
9-
8----
8-
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10-|
130 |-----------------------------|----------------------
11--
11-|
131 |-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
132 drivin' in the flats in a Cadil -lac car. The
134 <pre class=
"tab bridge2">
135 Ab Eb Eb+ Eb6 Eb+ Eb (Eb7)
137 |---------------------------|-------------------------|
138 |--------
9---
9--
8-----
8-----|-
8-----
8-----
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8-----|
139 |-
8---
8--
8---
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8-----
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8-----
6-----|
140 |-
8---
8--
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10-
8-----
9-----|-
10----
9-----
8-----
8-----|
141 |-
10--
10--------------------|-------------------------|
142 |---------------------------|-------------------------|
143 girls all say you're a worn out star
148 My pockets are loaded and I'm spendin' every dime.
150 How can you say you love someone else,
152 You know it's me all the time.
158 Well, the fog's so thick you can't spy the land,
159 The fog is so thick that you can't even spy the land,
160 What good are you anyway if you can't stand up to some old businessman.
162 Weddin' bells are ringin' and the choir is beginnin' to sing,
163 Yes, the weddin' bells are ringin' and the choir's beginnin' to sing,
164 What looks good in the day, at night is another thing.
166 She's lookin' into my eyes, and she's a-holdin' my hand,
167 She lookin' into my eyes, she's holdin' my hand,
168 She says,
"You can't repeat the past,
"
169 I say
"You can't? What do you mean you can't? Of course, you can.
"*)
173 "Where do you come from?
" "Where do you go?
"
174 Sorry, that is nothin' you would need to know.
175 Well, my back's been to the wall so long, it seems like it's stuck.
176 Why don't you break my heart one more time just for good luck?
182 I got eight carburetors, boys, I'm usin' 'em all,
183 Well, I got eight carburetors and, boys, I'm usin' 'em all,
184 I'm short on gas, my motor's startin' to stall.
186 My dogs are barkin', there must be someone around,
187 My dogs are barkin', there must be someone around,
188 I got my hammer ringin', pretty baby, but the nails ain't goin' down.
190 If you got somethin' to say, speak or hold your peace,
191 Well, you got somethin' to say, speak now or hold your peace,
192 If it's information you want, you can get it from the police.
196 Politician's got on his joggin' shoes,
197 He must be runnin' for office, got no time to lose,
198 Suckin' the blood out of the genius of generosity.
199 You been a-rollin' your eyes, you been teasin' me.
205 Standing by God's river, my soul's beginnin' to shake,
206 Standing by God's river, my soul's beginnin' to shake,
207 I'm countin' on you, love, to give me a break.
209 Well, I'm leavin' in the mornin' as soon as the dark clouds lift,
210 Yes! I'm leavin' in the mornin' just as soon as the dark clouds lift,
211 Gonn' break in the roof, set fire to the place as a parting gift.
213 Summer days, summer nights are gone,
214 Summer days, summer nights are gone,
215 I know a place where there's still somethin' goin' on.
222 <p>2nd guitar, intro:
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224 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
225 ---------
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4--
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4--
4----
4--
4----
4--|-
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3--
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3------------------|
226 -
3--
5-------|---------------------------------|-----------------
6----
6--
5-----
5-|
227 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
228 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
229 ------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
232 |-----------------------------|-------
233 |-----------------------------|-------
234 |-
3----
3----------------------|-------
235 |---------
6----
6--
5---
5-
3---
3-|------- etc
236 |-----------------------------|-
6-----
237 |-----------------------------|-------
240 <p>1st and
2nd guitars, combined (the
3rd string has to be damped - it's
241 a bit awkward, but it can be done...):
</p>
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248 ------------|-
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255 |-----------------------------|---------------------
256 |-
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257 |-
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258 |-
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259 |-------
11---
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260 |-----------------------------|-
11------------------
265 <p>*) Here's the full quotation from
<em>The Great Gatsby
</em>:
</p>
266 <p class=
"quote">“You can't repeat the past.
”<br />
267 “Can't repeat the past?
” he cried incredulously.
“Why of course you can!
”<br />
268 “I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,
” he said, nodding determinedly,
“She'll see.
”