Song: Snakes (Live in the USA 2014)
Artist: Pixies
Album: Indy Cindy (Deluxe Version)
URL’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0DtAn7L40 (acoustic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxqFo59TBs (studio)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EP2_(Pixies_EP)
Tempo: 4|4
Tuning: Standard
Capo 2
Chords:
EADGBe
C X32010
Em 022000
Bm X24432
D XX0232
G 320003
[Intro]
Riff #1: Lead Over
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C Em C Em
Bm Em G C
D Bm C D
Bm G C Bm
C Em
[Verse 1]
Em D Em
Meet me by the coppice stool,
D Em
Before the night takes back its jewels.
D Em
Bring your life of memo-ries,
D Em
Be-fore they sink into the seas.
[Chorus 1]
G
Snakes,
C Em
Are coming to your town.
D C
In tun-nels under-ground,
D C
Some travelling over-ground.
D G
A plague for our mis-takes,
C Em
They'll be right next to you.
D C
Snakes, up again-st me too,
D C
There'll be nothing to do.
D C Em
When the rat-tle sha-kes.
[Instrumental 1: Bridge]
D Em D Em D Em D Em
D Em D Em D Em D Em
[Verse 2]
Em D Em
One more glass and then we're dry,
D Em
Say some words, I'll write them down.
D Em
Feel the coup-lets deep inside.
[Chorus 2]
G
Snakes,
C Em
Are coming to your town.
D C
In tun-nels under-ground,
D C
Some travelling over-ground.
D G
A plague for our mis-takes,
C Em
They'll be right next to you.
D C
Snakes, up again-st me too,
D C
There'll be nothing to do.
D C Em
When the rat-tle sha-kes.
[Instrumental 2: Coda](Discordant lead over)
D Bm G C D Bm G C
D Bm G C D Em Em Em (Fade Out)
Riff #1(Repeat): Lead Over
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[End]
NOTES.
1. “…The Pixies came up with this song in the studio whilst recording EP2. "I'm not a jammer,"
said guitarist Joey Santiago, "but Black Francis and I started jamming it out. I had this little idea
and I did that sliding guitar just to emulate a snake."…”
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=31879