White City Fighting – guitar tab
White City Fighting | guitar tab by Pete Townshend and Dave Gilmour >From White City, 1985 Written by Pete Townshend and Dave Gilmour ©1985 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd/Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd. #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# ============== transcribed by 1996-11-15 Whotabs litgo@aol.com rev 2001-05-29 www.thewho.net/whotabs ============== Acoustic: capo on 5 Electric: no capo Am 577555 Fadd9 x810 10 88 G xx5787 F x87565 and x87568 Dm x57765 C 8x5588 Em x79987 Am7 xx7555 [intro pattern; acoustic only] ||:Am | | Fadd9 | :|| ||-5---5-8-10--8-5-|5---5-8-7-5---8-|-----8------8---|----8----7-5----8--|| ||---5-------5-----|--5---------8---|---8-----8----8-|--8---8-------8----|| ||.----------------|----------------|-10---10--10----|10----------------.|| ||(7)--------------|-------(5)------|----------------|----------(5)-----.|| ||-----------------|----------------|(8)-------------|-------------------|| ||-----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|| [verse and chorus pattern for electric] ||:G | |F | :|| ||-7-5-----7-5-----|7-5-----8-7-5-3-|5-3-----5-3-----|5-3-----5-3-----|| ||-----8-------8---|----8-----------|----6-------6---|----6-------6---|| ||.------7-------7-|------7---------|------5-------5-|------5-------5.|| ||.----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------.|| ||-----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|| ||-----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|| |G | The White City, that's a joke of a name |F | It's a black violent place if I remember the game |G | I couldn't wait to get out but I love to go home |F | To remember the White City fighting [chorus] |G | |F |F The White City Fighting, remember, remember The White City Fighting, remember, remember [bridge] |Dm | Down to the refuge, near QPR |C | Am I drive to committees in my German car |Dm | Prone to violence, prone to shame |Am |C G I glide in silence, my pride in vain |F | Em |Am | G For no one remembers, not that I can see |Dm |Am | C That we were defenders, we were the free [verse] The White City, blood was an addiction Now it is analyzed just as though it were fiction That battles were won and battles were blown At the height of the White City fighting [chorus] [break] | Dm Am7 Dm | Dm Am7 Dm| | C | Am | | Dm Am7 Dm | Dm Am7 Dm| | Am | G | |F | Em |Am | G No one remembers, not that I can see |Dm | |F |G That we were defenders, we were the free [repeat intro pattern] The White City, I finally grew up To resist the temptation the gutters all threw up But I have to go back, I guess I'm violence prone To remember the White City fighting, yeah [solo; verse pattern] [repeat chorus and fade] ============= litgo@aol.com #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
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