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Blind As A Bat – guitar tab

Blind As A Bat | guitar tab
By Simon Townshend
>From Bare Bodies Bare Assets
Written By Simon Townshend (c) Stir Music

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Transcribed by hpsreisha@yahoo.de

                       2008-07-06          Whotabs                    
                                           www.thewho.net/whotabs    

Standard Tuning

chords
G         32x003 or 32x03x
A7        x02020
Bm7       x2x230
Cadd9     x32030
D/F#      2x0232
A         x02220
F#m/A     x04222



[intro]

||G A7 Bm7 A7  G A7 Bm7 A7
||3-0--0---0- |3-0--0---0-||
||0-2--3---2- |0-2--3---2-||
||0-0--2---0- |0-0--2---0-||
||x-2--x---2- |x-2--x---2-||
||2-0--2---0- |2-0--2---0-||
||3-x--x---x- |3-x--x---x-||


[verse 1]

G      A7        Bm7          A7       G      A7      Bm7      A7|
    
  Nobody's gonna wake me from my dream 

G      A7        Bm7          A7   G     A7  Bm7  A7             |

  Nobody's gonna take it away from me, yeah

G      A7           Bm7     A7     G           A7          Cadd9 |
                     
  Like my room real dirty, like my mind, I get by it won't hurt me


G        Cadd9 D/F#         A    F#m/A     Cadd9                 |
                                     
'Cause I know  that someday soon I'll come through

      

[chorus 1]



            D/F#           G     Cadd9      Cadd9   D/F#  G  Cadd9    Cadd9     |

I've been sitting in the corner as blind  as a bat, wide-eyed blind as a bat   
 

     D/F#            G     Cadd9     Cadd9      D/F#          G         Cadd9  G|
        
    
I'm sitting in the corner with my stupid head, I'm blind, blind, blind - blind...

   G          A7      Bm7      A7      G      A7      Bm7      A7               |
   
blind as a bat



[verse 2]
   

G     A7          Bm7        A7          G      A7      Bm7      A7|
      
 So baby when you come round to my house,

G       A7        Bm7        A7     G A7     Bm7      A7           |

 Take a look and tell me if this is me, yeah,

G        A7         Bm7   A7         G         A7         Cadd9    |
      
 Like my life ain't pretty, it suits me, being late never hurt me
 
G       Cadd9  D/F#         A    F#m/A     Cadd9                   |

'Cause I know  that someday now I'll come round, yeah



[chorus 2]
 


 D/F#            G    Cadd9   Cadd9   D/F#      G  Cadd9 Cadd9 |

Sitting in the corner blind as a bat, wide-eyed blind as a bat

     D/F#            G    Cadd9    Cadd9                       |                      
I'm sitting in the corner with my wicked hat                                          

     D/F#         G   Cadd9 G    D           G                 |
I'm wide-eyed blind, blind...   blind as a bat



[bridge]



D/F#      G         D/F#                       G                  |                 

               I'm loading up the tears again, mothering baby


D/F#      G    D/F#                          G                    |
               Loading up the years again I must be crazy

D/F#      G       G      A7  Bm7 A7     G      A7      Bm7      A7|  
               Cause I'm blind yeah,oh,    I'm blind,

G    A7             Cadd9                                         | 
 I'm blind, won't hurt me


G       Cadd9 D/F#         A    F#m/A     Cadd9                   |
Cause I know that someday soon I'll come through, yeah



[outro]



  D/F#           G    Cadd9    Cadd9     D/F#    G       Cadd9 Cadd9                |  
Sitting in the corner blind as a bat,  wide-eyed blind as a bat


      D/F#           G    Cadd9        Cadd9      D/F#   G    Cadd9        Cadd9  G |
I'm sitting in the corner with my stupid hat, I'm wide eyed blind I'm blind


                    G Cadd9                                                         |
blind as a bat yeah!










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