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Instant Party (Circles) -- first version – guitar tab

Instant Party (Circles) -- first version | guitar tab
By The Who
>From The Who Sings My Generation, 1965
Written by Pete Townshend ©1965 TRO-Devon Music, Inc.

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transcribed by                             Whotabs                    
litgo@aol.com          1999-08-14          www.thewho.net/whotabs     
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A     x022xx
A/G   3x22xx
A/F#  2(t)x22xx
Bb/Ab 4(p)1333x


[main pattern]
||:A    A/G A   A/G|A/G    A/F# A/G :||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||.2---2---2---2---|2---2---2---2---.||
||.2---2---2---2---|2---2---2---2---.||
||-0---0---0---0---|-----------------||
||-------3-------3-|3-------2---3----||
||[horn arr for gtr; enters on 4th measure]
||-----------------|-------/7--------||
||-----10----------|8-----------8----||
||.----------------|----------------.||
||.----------------|----------------.||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||[bass; enters on 4th measure]      ||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||.----------------|----------------.||
||.----------------|----------------.||
||-5---5-3-5---5-3-|3---5-3-2---3----||

[with above pattern]
 |A    A/G A |A/G...        A/F# A/G|A  A/G A  A/G
  Circles, my head is going round in circles
[horn arr for gtr]
||-----------|----------------------||
||-----5-----|3------------/7----3--||
||.----------|---------------------.||
||.----------|---------------------.||
||-----------|----------------------||
||-----------|----------------------||

  |A/G...            A/F# A/G|A  A/G A  |A/G                 
My mind is caught up in   a   whirlpool, draggin' me down

|G   D/G|G   D/G|
|3---2--|3---2--|
|3---3--|3---3--|
|0---2--|0---2--|
|0---0--|0---0--|
|-------|-------|
|-------|-------|

|A  A/G A |A/G...       A/F# A/G|A  A/G   A  A/G |
 Time will tell if I'll take the homeward track
|A/G...         A/F# A/G|A    A/G  A    |A/G               |A/G 
 Dizziness will make my  feet walk back, walk right back to you

|Bm                |Bm/F#            
 Everything I do, I think of you
  |Bm                 |              |        
No matter how I try, I can't get by
     |A  A/G A|A/G...     A/F# A/G|A  A/G A  A/G|A/G...     A/F# A/G|
These circles, leading me back to  you

Round and around and around and around and around and 
Around and around and around and around

Round and round like a fool I go
Down and down in the pool I go
Draggin' me down

Everything I do, I think of you
No matter how I try, I can't get by
Circles, leading me back to you

|Bm   C#m D    |E     F#m  D  |E      |
 Just one thing could kill the pain of losin' you

      |Bm         C#m   D       |E             F#m  D |E  
But it gets me so dizzy that I'm walkin' right back again
|             |
 Back to you

|E        |         |          |         |         |         |       |
|---------|---------|4---------|---------|4-2-5-4--|2-2-4----|4-2-5-4|
|9--------|---------|5---------|---------|5-3-6-5--|3-3-5----|5-3-6-5|
|9----4/2-|2/4-4----|4-2/4-4/2-|2/4-4----|4-2-5-4--|2-2-4----|4-2-5-4|
|9--------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------|-------|

|       |       |      |        |   |                |                |
|2-2-4--|-7-7-7-|------|--------|---|----------------|----------------|
|3-3-5--|-8-8-8-|------|--------|---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
|2-2-4--|-7-7-7-|-7-7--|--------|-%-|----2-------2-1-|----2-1-----2-1-|
|-------|-------|-7-7--|--------|---|----2-------2-2-|----2-2-----2-2-|
|-------|-------|------|--------|---|--------------2-|------2-------2-|
|-------|0-0-0--|--0-0-|0-0-3-0-|---|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

|   |         |         |         |               |  |    |
|---|---------|---------|---------|---------------|--|----|
|---|---------|------3--|---------|---------------|--|----|
|-%-|----%----|---1/2---|---------|---------------|%-|%---|
|---|---------|-xx------|-----2-2-|---------------|--|----|
|---|---------|-xx------|---------|---------------|--|----|
|---|---------|0--------|0-0------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|--|----|

|         |       |         |
|---------|-------|---------|
|---------|-------|---------|
|--%------|--%----|----%----|
|---------|-------|---------|
|---------|-------|---------|
|---------|-------|---------|


||:Bb             |Bb/Ab         Eb      :||Bb       
         Time will tell if these dreams are near his plan
||----------------|-----------------------||
||-3-3---3----3---|3----3-----------------||
||.3-3---3----3---|3----3----------------.||
||.3-3---3----3---|3----3-----------1----.||
||-1-1---1----1---|1----1--------1/3--1---||
||-----4--------4-|4-------4------------4-||

|Bb/Ab    Eb      |Bb     F(no 3) |
 Though I left I'm comin' back
|Bb/Ab     Eb     |Bb    
 Comin' on back to you

|Ab      |Bb     |Ab      |Bb     |Ab      |Bb     |Ab      |Bb     
|--------|-------|--------|-------|--------|-------|--------|-------
|--------|-------|--------|-------|--------|-------|--------|-------
|--------|3------|--------|3-----1|--------|3------|--------|3------
|1---1---|3------|1---1---|3--1/3-|1---1---|3------|1---1---|3------
|-1---1--|1------|-1---1--|1-1----|-1---1--|1------|-1---1--|1------
|--4---4-|-------|--4---4-|-------|--4---4-|-------|--4---4-|-------

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litgo@aol.com

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