Roger Waters - Too Much Rope
From "Amused to Death", 1992 Columbia Records
Tabbed by Jeremy Diringer (diri6200@fredonia.edu)
As an interesting note, this song is in 12/8 time. All |'s are bar-lines. Unfortunately, the songbook doesn't give the lead guitar parts, else I'd post them. Roger Waters' dictation doesn't lend itself to transcription, but this file is 100% accurate.
The song is in the key of C.
Find a chord dictionary at http://olga.net/ ; half of this is piano arranged for guitar, and the chord shapes get ridiculous.
This transcription is designed to be printed with 10-point Courier New and 1-inch margins.
Intro (repeat as necessary):
|:Gmaj7 G7 |Gmaj7 G7 |Gm7 Gm6 |Gm7 Gm6 :|
|G |G7 |G6 |Cmaj7 |
|Am7 |Fmaj7 |Dm6 |G7 G |
Verse:
C C7
When the sleigh is heavy, and the timberwolves are getting bold,
Am7
You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship
D
With your toe.
F C G/B Am
And they significantly edge closer to the gold...
F G
Each man has his price, Bob...and yours was pretty low.
C C7
Now history is short, the sun is just a minor star.
Am7 D
And the poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
F C G/B Am
Que sera sera, is that your new Ferrari car?
F Am7 D
Nice... but I think I'll wait for the F-fifty
G G7
You don't have to be a Jew...to disapprove of murder
G6 Cmaj7
Tears burn my eyes;
Am7
Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
Em Dm6
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote, "Give any one species
G7 C
Too much rope and they'll **** it up?
C C7
Last night on TV, a Vietnam vet took his beard and his pain
Am D
And his alienation of 20 years...back to Asia again.
F C G/B Am
Sees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating 'round.
F
Meets a gook on a bike...a good enough guy,
Am7 D
With the same soldier's eyes.
(4-bars instrumental
|G |G7 |G6 |Cmaj7 |
Am7 Em
What does it mean, this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
Dm6
That it moves me so much, why all the fuss?
G C C7 C6 Fmaj7
It's only two humans being...it's only... two humans being;
Dm7 Am Gm
Tears burn in my eyes...what does it mean? This tender TV?
C C7
This tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
F F7
And you don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder
F6 Bb Gm
Tears burn my eyes....Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
Dm
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote:
Cm6 F
"Give any one species too much rope and they'll **** it up?"
Outro:
|Bb |Bb7 |Gm7 Gm6 |Eb |Bb F/A Gm|
|:Gm7 Gm6 |Gm7 Gm6 |Gm6 Eb/G |Gm6 Eb/G:|
(repeat to fade) | |
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