O Fountains Of Wayne é uma banda surgida nos Estados Unidos. Foi formada em 1996 por Adam Schlesinger e Chris Collingwood em New York. Ambos já vinham desde os anos 80 trabalhando juntos em outros projetos musicais. O quarteto, contando também com o guitarrista Jody Porter e o baterista Brian Young, lançou esporadicamente os seus álbuns de estúdio.
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Fountains Of Wayne The Valley of Malls Transcribed by Ray Brizzi ([email protected]) 2/29/04
Em riff The King of Araby is coming home today Em riff It's bumper touching bumper on the motorway GAC The sun is in the sky just now BEm riff But the road is grey Em riff They drive in Winnebagos from the Everglades Em riff Pulled over by the troopers in the mirror shades GA The Caravan is sorry CAmB The driver has a twenty and change D riff And we're leaving all the road for dead Am riff We're getting tired of the twists and turns D riff You gotta go when human nature calls CB We're driving, we're driving Em riff Through the valley of malls
Em riff And God forgive the passengers if we should fail Em riff To find a penny fountain of a half-off sale GA I need a merchant CBEm riff I've just started searching for a Holy Grail Em riff Fighting for the freedom from a common bond Em riff To be a barracuda in the guppy pond GACAmB So little time for so many things to try on
Instrumental verse same chords
D riff And we're leaving all the road for dead Am riff We're getting tired of the twists and turns D riff You gotta go when human nature calls CB We're driving, we're driving Em riff Through the valley of malls Em riff Through the valley of malls ......
Em riff is an alternating 022000 020000 (em/em7) D riff is an altenating 200232 200230 (d/dsus2) Am riff is an alternating 002210 002010 (am/am7) (You'll hear the rhythm as you play it)
This lead riff is played repeatedly between verses and at the intro and fadeout