This is my version of
David Gray's First Chance
My first tab so please rock my arss with comments and corrections...
Listen to the song, David plays a lot of variations of (kind of) the same lick,
in different parts of the song.
This is 2 ways of playing it (Octave).
[Verse]
Em D/F#
E|-----0----------------2------------|
B|-----0----------------3------------|
G|-----0----------------2-(0)--------|
D|-----2----------------0--5--4--0---|
A|-----2--3--2--0-------x------------|
E|--0--0-------------2--2------------|
Em D/F#
E|-----0----------------2--3--2------|
B|-----0--1--0----------3--------3---|
G|-----0--------2-------2------------|
D|-----2----------------0------------|
A|-----2----------------x------------|
E|-----0----------------2------------|
[Chorus]
G D/F# C/G Am
E|------3----|------2----|------0-----|------0----|
B|------0----|------3----|------1-----|------1----|
G|------0----|------2----|------0-----|------2----|
D|------0----|------0----|------2-----|------2----|
A|------2----|------0----|------3-----|------0----|
E|------3----|------2----|------3-----|------x----|
[Verse]
Em D/F#
Like a bird upon release
Em D/F#
Through the atmosphere
Em D/F#
Like a honking flock of geese
Em D/F#
Winter drawing near
Em D/F#
As the fabric comes unstitched
Em D/F#
Hearts and minds and eyes bewitched
Em D/F# Em D/F#
Standing watching for the smoke to clear
[Chorus]
G D/F# C/G Am
First chance I get I’m gone
[Verse]
Em D/F#
Moses had his tablets yeah
Em D/F#
Noah had his ark
Em D/F#
All I got’s a haystack needle
Em D/F#
Stabbing in the dark
Em D/F#
Anguished cries and old footfalls
Em D/F#
Permeate these paper walls
Em D/F# Em D/F#
Need some action all you get is talk
[Chorus]
G D/F#
First chance I get
C/G Am
I’m gone I’m outta here
G D/F#
First chance I get
C/G Am
I’m gone I’m outta here
[Verse]
Em D/F#
Here’s one for the boys back home yeah
Em D/F#
Here’s one for your spokes
Em D/F#
A little taste of victory
Em D/F#
To send back to your folks
Em D/F#
Here’s one for the fireside
Em D/F#
The grinning groom the blushing bride
Em D/F# Em D/F#
Come and feast your eyes upon the hoax
[Chorus]
G D/F#
First chance I get
C/G Am
I’m gone I’m outta here
G D/F#
First chance I get
C/G Am
I’m gone I’m outta here
[Verse]
Em D/F#
Over Lake Superior
Em D/F#
And the Arctic Sea
Em D/F#
Through the dark interior
Em D/F#
The stolen territory
Em D/F#
Want it with the cream on top
Em D/F#
One more lifetime swallowed up
Em D/F# Em D/F#
He’ll be back yeah just you wait and see