Biography:
Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook, through Quite Scientific Records in November, 2008. In February, 2009, it was announced that Frontier Ruckus had joined North Carolina-based label Ramseur Records.
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Silverfishes - Frontier Ruckus
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Tabbed by: 3lacksabbath81
Email: [email protected]
Deadmalls & Nightfalls: Track 5
Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
Tuning: Standard
Intro: OTHERCHORDS
Am C C# D(no5) Fmaj7 Em Riff A (A) A/C#
e||--0--|--0--|-----|-----|--0--|-----|--------|| |--0----0----0----|
B||--1--|--1--|--2--|--3--|--1--|--0--|-----0--|| |--2----5----8----|
G||--2--|--0--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|----(0)-|x2 |--2----6----9----|
D||--2--|--2--|--3--|--4--|--3--|--2--|--------|| |--2----7----11---|
A||--0--|--3--|--4--|--5--|-----|--2--|-2h3----|| |--0--------------|
E||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--0--|--------|| |-----------------|
Verse I:
Am C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C# D(no5)
For the refuse
Fmaj7 Em
That is littering all of your clues
Am C C# D(no5)
Orion is dead and gone but something in it still be-longs to me
Fmaj7 Em
The bright night I see
Am
High hot-time all the braggarts drag
C C#
Their boats down to the water
D(no5)
She dragged down to drown each and every
Fmaj7 Em
Brown rag I bought her
Am
The silverfish they ditch their skins as
C C#
The Saturday air raid beg-ins
D(no5)
Pitching exoskeletons
Fmaj7 Em
Revolting in their molting
Am
Dont you know Im just like that?
C C#
You can tell where Ive been at
D(no5)
On every doormat I have sat
Fmaj7 Em
A relic so an-gelic
Dm
Oh the once hard-biting night
D Fmaj7 Em
Now ruthlessly a toothless sight to see
Verse II:
Am C
A shot down Telegraph with a hot laugh as we cruise
C# D(no5)
Through the sinews
Fmaj7 Em
Connecting all of your clues
Am
The blinds they clap for the
C
The napping overheated tangles
D
Daytime may climb high until the dusk sucks out
All that it mangles
Am
Melting with the blacktop moms
C C#
On a bed of palms and psalms
D
Immersed in the universe
Fmaj7 Em
Of off-ramp proms and sitcoms
Dm
Sylvan Lake and in between
D Fmaj7
Perpetually like Halloween
Em
I saw you
Am C
In the dormitory with the warming glory
C#
Of the harvest
D
The pilings of the night are whiling out
Fmaj7 Em
Where their forms are the largest
Bridge:
Am C D(no5) Fmaj7 Em
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|------0---------|
A|---3-----3--2~--|
E|----------------|
F
Feeling about half as vicious
Em A
As all the silverfishes crawl
F
If I truly am a coward
Em
Memory-fueled and fear-powered
A (A) A/C#
Ill be damned
F Em
But if I were
C D
That gorgeous blur
Dm Em
Id be
Am
Sure
Horn & Banjo Solo Section: Play verse Chords four times through. 2 bars for horn and 2
bars for banjo.
Verse III:
Am C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C# D(no5)
For the refuse
Fmaj7 Em
That is littering all of your clues
Am
Tripped up on the alley-weed
C C#
Through which I elbowed and kneed
D
The bottle of my beer emptied
Fmaj7 Em
And I was warm and fluid
Am
The body is a bottle, I guess
C C#
That I would like to throttle, yes
D
Mottled skin and spilling sin
Fmaj7 Em
And a holiness so stupid
Dm
The heaven that I long to see
D
The undone linearity
Fmaj7 Em
Ive pro- ven
Dm
Is all the love Ive tried to show
D
Buried where those buildings glow
Fmaj7 Em (Riff)
And ruined?
Am(let ring)
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6kG7MpWfA
http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/
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| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| b Bend
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