Big Boring Wedding Chords

Guided By Voices: Big Boring Wedding (from Under The Bushes Under The Stars)

Tabbed by: DouG

Tune sixth string down full step to a D

Intro:

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(play that part twice)

verse (the bass mainly carries the first two verses)

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I have entered a shiny new realm

It’s with great pleasure I introduce myself

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a very different and very spoiled world

to call and thank you for such delicious pie

(in-between first and second verses, repeat intro)

(play second verse same as the first)

(then there’s this part):

(this is doubled an octave higher by a second guitar)

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revealing mobility and psychedelic

spontaneous and violent, but private to the

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eyes

mind, with

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nowhere left to go

(strum these for the chorus):

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pass the word, the chicks are back

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the chicks are back, yeah, the chicks are back! (2x)

(after the chorus, play this twice with no words):

(this is also doubled by a higher guitar)

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(then play it twice again with “the chandelier is spinning” etc)

if this is confusing, just listen to the song.