The Vaselines fue una banda escocesa de Edimburgo ; fue fundada en el año 1986 por Eugene Kelly y Frances McKee a la que luego se sumaron James Seenan y Charly Kelly.
La historia musical de la banda , en cuanto a registros , tiene sus inicios con la grabación de sus primeros singles en 1987; esto se produjo gracias a la amistad con Stephen McRobbie, de la banda escocesa The Pastels, es así como bajo el sello 53rd & 3rd Records grabaron sus dos primeros singles "Son of a Gun" y "Dying for It"
¡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!
Artist: The Vaselines Song: Son of a gun Tabber: Eric Aari Duhamel Ultimate Guitar ID: Cardboard.scene Email: [email protected]
All feedback is welcome.
Noteworthy: Mapped out from the "Live on KEXP" performance, which you can find on youtube.
This a great song to play with a couple of vocalists and one or two guitars. The Nirvana version is great, but i dont see the point in tabbing out a cover. So sit down Tune up, spark a fire and sing your heart out to a true classic, by a couple of great scottish song writers.
Ive done my best to place the chords in the proper places, adjacent to the lyrics.
All Chords are Major first position.
There seems to be some dispute as to a lyric in the chorus. i cant tell if im hearing "and the raining always starts" or "and the rain it always starts".
As usual with my chord and tab sheets i will always suggest using my tab while playing along with the recording or performance. This song especially because the lyrics in the verse are sung in a couple different rhythms. For example, the "gun gun son of a gun" line, is crammed together on the "of a" part, and on the next rotation the lyrics are dragged out a bit more, using less words for the chords.
The bridge piece is played EXACTLY as i have it drawn out, even if it seems strange. The last note of this bridge piece is a D chord, which is played for 2 full bars (or the length of two chord rotations) until it leads back into the verse.
The song is broken up into two vocal parts. Vocal One is singing the verse. Vocal Two is singing the chorus as well as the bridge piece. During the final chorus, which is played 4 times, vocal one, joins in for the last 2 rotations.
lyrics in brackets are used in the second verse.
Song layout at the bottom.
[Intro] [A] [E] [D] [E]
[Verse] [A] [E] [D] [E] Swing swing up and down, Turn turn turn around, [A] [E] [D] [E] Round round round about and over again. [A] [E] [D] [E] Gun gun son of-a gun, You are the only one, [A] [E] [D] [E] And no one else can(will) take my place.
[Chorus] [G] [C] [D] [C] The sun shines in my bedroom, when you play, [G] [C] [D] [C] And the raining always starts when you go away. (final chorus end on a G chord)