Biography:
John Wesley Harding (b. 22 October 1965) is a folk/pop singer-songwriter who has called his style of music "folk noir" and "gangsta folk".
He was born Wesley Stace in Hastings, East Sussex, England. His given name, Wesley, comes from John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who preached one of his last sermons in the town where Harding was born.
His stage name may be seen as an almost inevitable nickname for a folk-pop musician, in that his first name overlaps with the Bob Dylan album (and song) "John Wesley Harding".
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#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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.... ....
,ad8PPPP88b, ,d88PPPP8ba,
d8P" "Y8b, ,d8P" "Y8b
dP' "8a8" `Yd Kiss / Lovers' Society
8( " )8 ======================
I8 8I Track 13 from the live album
Yb, ,dP "It Happened One Night" by
"8a, ,a8" John Wesley Harding [L-FIEND CD 137]
"8a, ,a8"
"Yba adP" Transcribed by Ryan Harding
`Y8a a8P'
`88, ,88' "Kiss" is by Prince, "Lovers' Society" is by
"8b d8" John Wesley Harding
"8b d8"
`888'
"
Kiss [Prince]
----
A
Better not talk flirty mama,
Know how to undress me.
Better not talk dirty mama,
That won't impress me.
[A B C C# D] D
You don't have to watch Dynasty
To have an attitude.
[D C# C B A] A
Just leave it all up to me, yeah
My love is gonna be your food (OK gonna sing this)
E
You don't have to be rich to be my girl
D
You don't have to be cool to rule my world
E
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
D {12th fret trebles}
Just want your extra time and your
(I only did that so I could do that bit!)
{12th fret trebles}
KISS!
Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]
---------------
C Am C Am C Am C
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Well they're taking minutes to do what takes me hours at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em F
Well they're handing out tenders for new ivory towers at the Lovers' Society
Dm G7 C Cmaj7 Am
And the chairman's so together --- drinks coffee from a lover's cup
Dm G7 C Em F C
It's always lovers weather --- if Finn and Esse would just button up
F Em Dm
He doesn't need sugar --- we all know why
F Em G
When he's planning the broken hearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Em F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
C Am C
They shouldn't mess with me
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Well they talk about things that do not make my agenda at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em F
The committee are emotional big spenders at the Lovers' Society
Dm G7 C Cmaj7 Am
They've always got a quorum --- they love to love to always agree
Dm G7 C Em F C
But this is the lovers' famous forum and they've excluded cynical me
F Em Dm
They say it's paranoia and I've got to pay time
F Em G
But I think it's paranormal that they're so blatant... They're so blatant!
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Em F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
C Am C Am C Am C
They shouldn't mess with me
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Casanova and Don Juan talking turkey in the corner at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em
Sylvia Plath and Mrs. Browning they just go for a sauna at the Lovers' Society
F G C Cmaj7 Am
I'm standing at the lover's keyhole with half a bottle of Beck's
F G C Em F C
'Cause it sure felt cold and lonely, suckin' my thumb in the annexe.
F Em Dm
You should see the archives on the shelf,
F Em G
Proves every lover just loves him or herself,
G7
Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!
C Am C Am
I'm vaguely bitter, 'cause they've written me
Em F G
Out of the text of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, .... No!
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me .... (Nah!)
C Am C Am Em F G C
They shouldn't mess with me .... No!
-----oooooOOOOOooooo-----
Thanks to [email protected] for the heart posted on an ascii art
newsgroup and [email protected] (Normand Veilleux) for doing the
anti-aliased version which Scarecrow posted on rec.arts.ascii and I edited.
Chords
======
CHD E A D G B E
-------------------
A [0 0 2 2 2 0]
D [x 0 0 2 3 2] or [2 0 0 2 3 2]
E [0 2 2 1 0 0]
C [0 3 2 0 1 0]
Am [0 0 2 2 1 0]
Em [0 2 2 0 0 0]
F [1 3 3 2 1 1]
Dm [x 0 0 2 3 1]
G7 [3 2 0 0 0 1]
Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]
G [3 2 0 0 0 3]
BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A B C C# D]
At the end of KISS, {12th fret trebles} uses a single finger (index or middle)
to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or maybe 4 are played
with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.
Notes
=====
1. The first part of Kiss is played in bass-strum style, but I haven't
included the bass notes, only the chords.
2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I
expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.
3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let
me know. "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded, syllable-wise,
like what Wes sings. It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the
famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song. Perhaps he
is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of the word
would come together.
4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able to get
hold of the original CD.
5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)
or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd
like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,
"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and
"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do
them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out
the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded
so far are:
From "The Name Above The Title":
I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
Save A Little Room For Me
The People's Drug
The Person You Are
Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by
Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks
from "It Happened One Night":
Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
Kiss/Lovers' Society
and from "Here Comes The Groom"
The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett
and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again
These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its
mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by
using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new
maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find
the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:
unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal
Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)
which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be
a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.
7. Enjoy!
Regards,
Ryan Harding
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Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC
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"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"
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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
.... ....
,ad8PPPP88b, ,d88PPPP8ba,
d8P" "Y8b, ,d8P" "Y8b
dP' "8a8" `Yd Kiss / Lovers' Society
8( " )8 ======================
I8 8I Track 13 from the live album
Yb, ,dP "It Happened One Night" by
"8a, ,a8" John Wesley Harding [L-FIEND CD 137]
"8a, ,a8"
"Yba adP" Transcribed by Ryan Harding
`Y8a a8P'
`88, ,88' "Kiss" is by Prince, "Lovers' Society" is by
"8b d8" John Wesley Harding
"8b d8"
`888'
"
Kiss [Prince]
----
A
Better not talk flirty mama,
Know how to undress me.
Better not talk dirty mama,
That won't impress me.
[A B C C# D] D
You don't have to watch Dynasty
To have an attitude.
[D C# C B A] A
Just leave it all up to me, yeah
My love is gonna be your food (OK gonna sing this)
E
You don't have to be rich to be my girl
D
You don't have to be cool to rule my world
E
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
D {12th fret trebles}
Just want your extra time and your
(I only did that so I could do that bit!)
{12th fret trebles}
KISS!
Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]
---------------
C Am C Am C Am C
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Well they're taking minutes to do what takes me hours at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em F
Well they're handing out tenders for new ivory towers at the Lovers' Society
Dm G7 C Cmaj7 Am
And the chairman's so together --- drinks coffee from a lover's cup
Dm G7 C Em F C
It's always lovers weather --- if Finn and Esse would just button up
F Em Dm
He doesn't need sugar --- we all know why
F Em G
When he's planning the broken hearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Em F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
C Am C
They shouldn't mess with me
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Well they talk about things that do not make my agenda at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em F
The committee are emotional big spenders at the Lovers' Society
Dm G7 C Cmaj7 Am
They've always got a quorum --- they love to love to always agree
Dm G7 C Em F C
But this is the lovers' famous forum and they've excluded cynical me
F Em Dm
They say it's paranoia and I've got to pay time
F Em G
But I think it's paranormal that they're so blatant... They're so blatant!
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Em F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No!
C Am C Am C Am C
They shouldn't mess with me
Am C Am C Am C Am C
Casanova and Don Juan talking turkey in the corner at the Lovers' Society
Am C Am C Am Em
Sylvia Plath and Mrs. Browning they just go for a sauna at the Lovers' Society
F G C Cmaj7 Am
I'm standing at the lover's keyhole with half a bottle of Beck's
F G C Em F C
'Cause it sure felt cold and lonely, suckin' my thumb in the annexe.
F Em Dm
You should see the archives on the shelf,
F Em G
Proves every lover just loves him or herself,
G7
Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!
C Am C Am
I'm vaguely bitter, 'cause they've written me
Em F G
Out of the text of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
I wanna belong and I wanna be
Dm F G
Part of the Lovers' Society
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me, .... No!
C Am C Am
They shouldn't mess with me .... (Nah!)
C Am C Am Em F G C
They shouldn't mess with me .... No!
-----oooooOOOOOooooo-----
Thanks to [email protected] for the heart posted on an ascii art
newsgroup and [email protected] (Normand Veilleux) for doing the
anti-aliased version which Scarecrow posted on rec.arts.ascii and I edited.
Chords
======
CHD E A D G B E
-------------------
A [0 0 2 2 2 0]
D [x 0 0 2 3 2] or [2 0 0 2 3 2]
E [0 2 2 1 0 0]
C [0 3 2 0 1 0]
Am [0 0 2 2 1 0]
Em [0 2 2 0 0 0]
F [1 3 3 2 1 1]
Dm [x 0 0 2 3 1]
G7 [3 2 0 0 0 1]
Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]
G [3 2 0 0 0 3]
BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A B C C# D]
At the end of KISS, {12th fret trebles} uses a single finger (index or middle)
to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or maybe 4 are played
with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.
Notes
=====
1. The first part of Kiss is played in bass-strum style, but I haven't
included the bass notes, only the chords.
2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I
expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.
3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let
me know. "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded, syllable-wise,
like what Wes sings. It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the
famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song. Perhaps he
is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of the word
would come together.
4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able to get
hold of the original CD.
5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)
or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd
like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,
"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and
"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do
them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out
the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded
so far are:
From "The Name Above The Title":
I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
Save A Little Room For Me
The People's Drug
The Person You Are
Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by
Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks
from "It Happened One Night":
Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
Kiss/Lovers' Society
and from "Here Comes The Groom"
The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett
and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again
These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its
mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by
using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new
maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find
the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:
unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal
Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)
which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be
a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.
7. Enjoy!
Regards,
Ryan Harding
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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