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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:42:55 -0500
From: Brian Peters
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: TAB: j/jethro_tull/cross-eyed_mary.tab
Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull.
Writen By Ian Aderson. Found on the album Aqualung.
Transcribed by Brian Peters.
Cross-Eyed Mary
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Intro:
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Nice Litte Flute Ditty. For Guitar It's something like this.
e|------------------------------
B|-3/20-17-16-15--3/20-17-16-15- s the Robin Hood of Highgate -- helps the poor man get along.
SOLO:
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[Play Bridge Licks]
Hey
[Lick 2] [Lick 2] [Lick 2] [Lick 2]
[Lick 3] [Lick 3] [Lick 3]
{The Guitar Solo Is In A# Blues Scale}
{Here is the Starting, Sort Of}
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B|------------------------------------------------
G|-6b-----6-8b-6-8b-6---6---------------8p6-------
D|----8-6-----------------8-6-8-8p6---6-----8p6---
A|--------------------8-------------8-----------8-
E|------------------------------------------------
Verse 2/3:
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[Lick 4]
Laughing in the playground -- gets no kicks from little boys:
would rather make it with a letching grey.
[Lick 4]
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung,
who watches through the railings as they play.
Bridge 1/3:
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[Lick 2] [Lick 2]
Cross-eyed Mary, goes jumping in again.
[Lick 2] [Lick 2]
She signs no contract, but she always plays the game.
[Lick 3] [Lick 3]
Dines in Hampstead village, on expense accounted gruel,
[Lick 3] C D B
and the jack-knife barber drops her off at school.
Outro:
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Em
Cross-eyed Mary
C
[flute thingie]
D
[guitar thingie G|-11b11b11b11b11b11b11b-| hit string hard]
Am Bbm Em
Bb C D Em
oh Mary ohhhh Cross-eyed Mary
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Send Comments or Revision to:
Brian Peters
ak174@traverse.lib.mi.us
