Biography:
The Pretty Things was an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, with their name from Willie Dixon's 1955 song "Pretty Thing". They pioneered a raw approach to rhythm and blues (and later, psychedelia) that influenced a number of key bands of the 1960s British 'invasion', particularly The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie whose first hero was Phil May (born 1944; died 2020). The band did their final tour in 2018.
The Pretty Things was preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys which consisted of Dick Taylor
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THE PRETTY THINGS - Parachute
From Parachute (1970)
Tabbed by: jontans
Tuning: Standard
Eb Ab
White ice towers, slow dissolving
Gm Fm
Now fall.
Bb Fm
Below savage moon
Bb Fm Gm Eb
Iron cities soon to rust.
Eb Ab
Warned first by the gathering shadows
Gm Fm
They fled.
Bb Fm
From wide vapour deserts
Bb Fm Gm Eb
They turned turned towards the sea.
Gm (Bb) Cm
Pale worn the walking, pass
Gm (Bb) Cm
Through concrete glades.
Db Bbm Fm Bb
Torn shadows, slashed silence, ahhh.
[Instrumental]
Eb Ab Fm Bb
Fm Gm Eb
Gm Cm Gm Cm
Db Bbm Fm Bb
Eb Cm Ab Fm
Gm Ab Db F#
Ebm Bbm
[Descending Bb aeolian scale]
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----4-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------4-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------1/--------------------------------------------------------|
[Final tone ascends from F]
From Parachute (1970)
Tabbed by: jontans
Tuning: Standard
Eb Ab
White ice towers, slow dissolving
Gm Fm
Now fall.
Bb Fm
Below savage moon
Bb Fm Gm Eb
Iron cities soon to rust.
Eb Ab
Warned first by the gathering shadows
Gm Fm
They fled.
Bb Fm
From wide vapour deserts
Bb Fm Gm Eb
They turned turned towards the sea.
Gm (Bb) Cm
Pale worn the walking, pass
Gm (Bb) Cm
Through concrete glades.
Db Bbm Fm Bb
Torn shadows, slashed silence, ahhh.
[Instrumental]
Eb Ab Fm Bb
Fm Gm Eb
Gm Cm Gm Cm
Db Bbm Fm Bb
Eb Cm Ab Fm
Gm Ab Db F#
Ebm Bbm
[Descending Bb aeolian scale]
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----4-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------4-3-1-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------1/--------------------------------------------------------|
[Final tone ascends from F]
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