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