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Paint a Vulgar Picture   The Smiths

 
 



 
 Paint A Vulgar Picture<br/>
 ----------------------<br/>
 Lyrics by Morrissey<br/>
 Music by Johnny Marr<br/>
 Performed by the Smiths<br/>
 from their last LP "Strangeways Here We Come"<br/>
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 Transcribed by Pablo Kang (pkang@cs.buffalo.edu) December 12, 1995<br/>
 Corrections and comments are encouraged.<br/>
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 The whole song begins with...<br/>
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 ... a strum on        ...then another strum<br/>
 the 9th position      for another 4 beats...<br/>
 for 4 beats...             |<br/>
      |                     |<br/>
      V                     V<br/>
  F# (9th pos)         F# (2nd pos)<br/>
   x=====                ======<br/>
   |1|||x ix             ||||||<br/>
   ------                ------<br/>
   |||||| x              1|||1x<br/>
   ------                ------<br/>
   ||333| xi             |||2||<br/>
   ------                ------<br/>
                         |34|||<br/>
                         ------<br/>
 <br/>
 ...then with vigor...<br/>
 <br/>
   A (strum 4x)  [key of D]<br/>
 <br/>
 ...then...<br/>
 <br/>
   D, G, A<br/>
   D, G, A<br/>
   Bm, G, A, G, A<br/>
   Bm, G, A<br/>
  <br/>
   D, G, A "At the record company meeting..."<br/>
   ...<br/>
 <br/>
 ...then the aforementioned pattern repeats until the key change, where <br/>
    from the last _A_ chord in the pattern slides down to the _F#_ chord and a<br/>
    similar pattern ensues with a different key.<br/>
   <br/>
   i.e.<br/>
 <br/>
   ...          "...you could walked away...couldn't you?"<br/>
   Bm, G, A    <br/>
 <br/>
   F#,          [down to B key]<br/>
   B, E, F#     "I touched you at the soundcheck..."<br/>
   B, E, F#<br/>
   G#m, E, F#<br/>
   G#m, E, F#<br/>
   ...<br/>
 <br/>
 <br/>
 ...then the solo follows:<br/>
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 ...really know...aw! [key of D]    q     q     q        q.       e  e  e  e  e==<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------5-----|--7--------7--8--7--------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------7-----7-----------|--------------------7--7==<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
 <br/>
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 =(e) e  e     q     q        e  e  e  q     e  e  e     e  e  e  e  e  e  e  e  <br/>
 |----------5--7-----5-----|--------------------------|--------------------7-----<br/>
 |-------------------------|--8--7-----------5--5--5--|-5/7-10-7--10-8--10----10=<br/>
 =(7)-6--6-----------------|--------7--7--------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
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   h           q.       e     q     q     e  e  e  e     w                       <br/>
 |----------------------10-|--10----------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 =(10)========(10)---------|--------7-----8--7--------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------9--9====(9)----------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
 <br/>
 <br/>
   e  e  h           q        e  q     q     q     e     e  e  e  e  h           <br/>
 |-7^^5--------------------|--7--5--------------------|--------------9-----------<br/>
 |-pull--------------------|--------------------------|--------8-----------------<br/>
 |-off---7==========(7)----|-----------6-----7-----7--|--7-7/9----9--------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
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   e  e  e  e  e  e  e  e     e  q     e  h             e   e  e  e  e  e  e  e  <br/>
 |-------9^^7--------7--5--|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-5--5--pull--5--5--------|--------------------------|-----------------------12-<br/>
 |-------off---------------|--7--7-----9--9-----------|-9-9/11-14-11-14-12-14----<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +    1   +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
 <br/>
 <br/>
   q     e  h           q     w   [key of B]             Best of, most of... <br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-12----10-10=========(10)|--11----------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
 |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/>
   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  <br/>
 <br/>
 <br/>
 ...etc.<br/>
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 You can pretty much figure it out from here.<br/>
 
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