String of Pearls Soul Asylum
String of Pearls Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine This is a funky cyclical kinda song, that's also pretty simple to play. Strum with a 1 1-2-3-1 rhythm (listen to the cd and you'll get it easy). I like to play the first "E" in the series in open voicing, and the second as a barre chord, for variety's sake. This is my first posting, so bear with me. Comments/hoots of laughter to Chad (pimentec@sas.upenn.edu) Intro/Riff A N/C A e----------------------------------------- b----------------------------------------- g--2-2-2-4---7-7-7-6--2-2-2-4---0-0-0-2--- d----------------------------------------- a----------------------------------------- E----------------------------------------- Verses A She swings a string of pearls on the corner E The streetlight reflects the light in the water D The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing E And they splash and they bounce and roll cross the wet street A As she bends to chase the pearls a car swings round the corner E She darts from the eyes of the panic struck driver D Who's racing to the delivery room E Cause in the backseat his wife is busting out of her womb Interlude A D g----2-2-2-4---7-7-7-6-- (On this set, switch to the second "E" at the end of the 3rd line) And the sack breaks and out pops the siamese twins Who grow up to become the first Presidents With two heads--are better than one He puts his heads in his hands says I gotta put my heads together I can become the best President ever And not just President fend for yourself Interlude ADAD (w/wah effect over the chords-maintain during the verse) He signs his name takes the blame for all of the names With no shame they adjourn and they leave And in walks a man with a Broom and a knife and blood on his hands And he sweeps everything under the rug And goes home to his wife and gives her a hug But his wife was not there she had just left a letter That said you'd be much better off without me Interlude ADAD w/riff And his wife took the train to her ex-lover's funeral Who died in the bathroom hit his hhead on a urinal When they got together the knowledge was carnal And the widow was at the funeral and they had quite a catfight And they fell into the hole, where the casket was resting And the preacher just left in the middle of the service Cause death he could handle, but women made him nervous And he ran to the car and he drove round the corner Interlude ADAD w/riff Then something in the street caught the light in his eyes He pulled over and pulled a pearl from the gutter He didn't know what to think So he took it home and washed it in the sink And he gave it to Sister Mary Theresa Who could not accept it so she gave it to Lisa A young prostitute who was missing a pearl On the necklace she broke-late last night Interlude w/riff til your hand falls off Happy Hackin' - UPenn 21 games undefeated Div 1-AA record Received: from post-office.nevada.edu (root@post-office.nevada.edu [131.216.1.11]) by mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (8.6.12/8.5) with ESMTP id TAA32033; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 19:43:54 -0500 Received: from mail1.sas.upenn.edu (pimentec@MAIL1.SAS.UPENN.EDU [165.123.26.32]) by post-office.nevada.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA07161 for <guitar@nevada.edu>; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:43:54 -0700 Received: (from pimentec@localhost) by mail1.sas.upenn.edu (8.6.11/SAS 8.03) id UAA17883; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:43:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199509170043.UAA17883@mail1.sas.upenn.edu> To: guitar@nevada.edu Cc: pimentec@sas.upenn.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23-upenn2.9] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=%#%record%#% Content-Length: 4985 Status: O --%#%record%#% Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 253 Hey! Since I'm farily sure that my last try to give you this tab was formatted incorrectly, I'm trying again. The tab should be in an attachment to this message under string.tab or ftp.nevada.edu. Thanks for your patience. Thanks, Chad --%#%record%#% Content-Type: text/plain Content-Name: /home8/p/pimentec/ftp.nevada.edu Content-Length: 4438 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Sep 15 21:48 EDT 1995 Received: from localhost (localhost) by mail2.sas.upenn.edu (8.6.11/SAS 8.03) with internal id VAB12093; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:48:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199509160148.VAB12093@mail2.sas.upenn.edu> To: pimentec Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3893 Status: RO The original message was received at Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:48:34 -0400 from pimentec@localhost ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- ftp/nevada.edu (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 ftp/nevada.edu... User unknown ----- Original message follows ----- Received: (from pimentec@localhost) by mail2.sas.upenn.edu (8.6.11/SAS 8.03) id VAA12093 for ftp/nevada.edu; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:48:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199509160148.VAA12093@mail2.sas.upenn.edu> To: ftp/nevada.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23-upenn2.9] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2964 String of Pearls Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine This is a funky cyclical kinda song, that's also pretty simple to play. Strum with a 1 1-2-3-1 rhythm (listen to the cd and you'll get it easy). I like to play the first "E" in the series in open voicing, and the second as a barre chord, for variety's sake. This is my first posting, so bear with me. Comments/hoots of laughter to Chad (pimentec@sas.upenn.edu) Intro/Riff A N/C A e----------------------------------------- b----------------------------------------- g--2-2-2-4---7-7-7-6--2-2-2-4---0-0-0-2--- d----------------------------------------- a----------------------------------------- E----------------------------------------- Verses A She swings a string of pearls on the corner E The streetlight reflects the light in the water D The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing E And they splash and they bounce and roll cross the wet street A As she bends to chase the pearls a car swings round the corner E She darts from the eyes of the panic struck driver D Who's racing to the delivery room E Cause in the backseat his wife is busting out of her womb Interlude A D g----2-2-2-4---7-7-7-6-- (On this set, switch to the second "E" at the end of the 3rd line) And the sack breaks and out pops the siamese twins Who grow up to become the first Presidents With two heads--are better than one He puts his heads in his hands says I gotta put my heads together I can become the best President ever And not just President fend for yourself Interlude ADAD (w/wah effect over the chords-maintain during the verse) He signs his name takes the blame for all of the names With no shame they adjourn and they leave And in walks a man with a Broom and a knife and blood on his hands And he sweeps everything under the rug And goes home to his wife and gives her a hug But his wife was not there she had just left a letter That said you'd be much better off without me Interlude ADAD w/riff And his wife took the train to her ex-lover's funeral Who died in the bathroom hit his hhead on a urinal When they got together the knowledge was carnal And the widow was at the funeral and they had quite a catfight And they fell into the hole, where the casket was resting And the preacher just left in the middle of the service Cause death he could handle, but women made him nervous And he ran to the car and he drove round the corner Interlude ADAD w/riff Then something in the street caught the light in his eyes He pulled over and pulled a pearl from the gutter He didn't know what to think So he took it home and washed it in the sink And he gave it to Sister Mary Theresa Who could not accept it so she gave it to Lisa A young prostitute who was missing a pearl On the necklace she broke-late last night Interlude w/riff til your hand falls off Happy Hackin' - UPenn 21 games undefeated Div 1-AA record --%#%record%#% --%#%record%#%--
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