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".
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #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. [ABCC#D] D You don't have to watch Dynasty
To have an attitude. [DC#CBA] 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] ---------------
CAmCAmCAmC
AmCAmCAmCAmC Well they're taking minutes to do what takes me hours at the Lovers' Society AmCAmCAmEmF Well they're handing out tenders for new ivory towers at the Lovers' Society DmG7CCmaj7Am And the chairman's so together --- drinks coffee from a lover's cup DmG7CEmFC It's always lovers weather --- if Finn and Esse would just button up FEmDm He doesn't need sugar --- we all know why FEmG When he's planning the broken hearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!
CAmCAm I wanna belong and I wanna be EmFG Part of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm I wanna belong and I wanna be DmFG Part of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No! CAmC They shouldn't mess with me
AmCAmCAmCAmC Well they talk about things that do not make my agenda at the Lovers' Society AmCAmCAmEmF The committee are emotional big spenders at the Lovers' Society DmG7CCmaj7Am They've always got a quorum --- they love to love to always agree DmG7CEmFC But this is the lovers' famous forum and they've excluded cynical me FEmDm They say it's paranoia and I've got to pay time FEmG But I think it's paranormal that they're so blatant... They're so blatant!
CAmCAm I wanna belong and I wanna be EmFG Part of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm I wanna belong and I wanna be DmFG Part of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm They shouldn't mess with me, ..... No! CAmCAmCAmC They shouldn't mess with me
AmCAmCAmCAmC Casanova and Don Juan talking turkey in the corner at the Lovers' Society AmCAmCAmEm Sylvia Plath and Mrs. Browning they just go for a sauna at the Lovers' Society FGCCmaj7Am I'm standing at the lover's keyhole with half a bottle of Beck's FGCEmFC 'Cause it sure felt cold and lonely, suckin' my thumb in the annexe. FEmDm You should see the archives on the shelf, FEmG Proves every lover just loves him or herself, G7 Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!
CAmCAm I'm vaguely bitter, 'cause they've written me EmFG Out of the text of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm I wanna belong and I wanna be DmFG Part of the Lovers' Society CAmCAm They shouldn't mess with me, .... No! CAmCAm They shouldn't mess with me .... (Nah!) CAmCAmEmFGC They shouldn't mess with me .... No!
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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 EADGBE ------------------- 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]
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" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------