The Original

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          The original   Roo Panes
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Tabbed by: Mike Lydiat
E-mail: mike@docsworkshop.co.uk
Tuning:DADF#AD (Open D)

To reproduce the guitar sound of this recording you need to be in Open D tuning -
and ideally using a 12 string guitar!
The Open D chords are easy to play and allow the top strings to act as ringing drones.

If you want to stay in Standard tuning - just play the chords as named and they will sound OK
when played along with the videos.

Here is the original full track:

And then 2 videos showing his fingers playing:
   Open D chords     Standard chords
    D G  A               D G A
E|-0-0--0----| e|-2-3-0--| 
B|-0-0--0----| B|-3-0-2--| 
G|-0-0--0----| G|-2-0-2--| 
D|-0-9--11---| D|-0-0-2--| 
A|-9-10-12---| A|-x-2-0--| 
E|-0-0--0----| E|-x-3-x--| 

[Intro]
D   G   D   G   D   G   D   G
Doo dooo do etc
D   G   D   G   D   G   D   G


[Verse 1]
        D                     G                 D     G
Well it seems she'll play the same old piece to play along
           D              G               D       G
'Cause the audience never listened to her mermaid song
         A                             G
That temptation was a sunny isle where all that lives is dead
                 D       G                D      G
Don't choose its shadows     to make your bed

[Verse 2]
      D                 G               D     G
And behind that painted lady, there's a masterpiece
      D                 G             D     G
Oh, behind that painted lady, she's a masterpiece
        A                                    G
Oh, but she doesn't care to think so; no she hasn't got belief
                  D       G           D      G
That's what she's wearing    over her face

[Chorus]
Singing:
D   G    A  G    D  G
Oh, take me back to me,
D   G   A   G    D  G
oh, the o - riginal me
A                   G                D     G    D    G
Oh, take me back to me, the original me

[Verse 3]
    D              G                     D               G
And when the sun descends, she'll be the swan song silhouette
    D             G                   D                  G
And even down the road, she'll be the last to leave your head
           A                                   G
And you'll feel like you're marooned upon that sunny isle instead
                 D       G               D       G
Don't choose its shadows    to make your bed

[Chorus]
D   G    A  G    D  G
Oh, take me back to you,
D   G   A   G    D  G
oh, the o - riginal you
A                   G                 D     G
Oh, take me back to you, the original you
D   G   D   G   D   G   A   A   G   G   D   G   D   G   D   G   D
Doo's and Oh's