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Guided By Voices: Hold on Hope (from Do the Collapse, 1999)

Tabbed by: Chris Nicol. Mail to: cdnicol@deakin.edu.au

E F G
E F G G

B
Every street is
C#m
Dark and folding
E Ebm
Out mysteriously
B C#m
Well that's the chance we take
B
To be always working
C#m
Reaching out for
E            Ebm
A hand that we can't see

        E |Guitar over this part:
Everybody's gotta hold on hope |E-----------------
    F#            B     G#m |B-5-4-2-0----------
It's the last thing thats holding me |G---------1^3-1-3-4-

B        C#m
Invitation to the last dance
E            Ebm
And then its time to leave
B        C#m    B
That's the price we pay when we deceive

One another
C#m
And my mother
E        Ebm
She opens up for free

        E             |Guitar over this part:
Everybody's gotta hold on hope |E-----------------
    F#        B B |B-5-4-2-0----------
It's the last thing that's holdin me |G---------1^3-1-3-4-


A
Look at the talk box
Ebm
And in frustration
B
At the station
E F# G    A
There hides the cowboy

B C#m E Ebm |These chords are overlain with the following guitar solo
E F# B B |(approximate chord change positions shown above lead stuff):
B C#m E Ebm E F# B
E----------------------------------------------7---6---------------------7-6-------------2-
B-2/4-2-0^2-2----2/4-2-0^2-------7---4-------7---7-----------7---------------7---7---------
G-----------------------------/8---6-4/6-6/8---------3-4-4/8---------8\6-------6---6-4-4---
D--------------------------------------------------------------9-8-9-----------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

B
E---------------------
B---------------------
G---------------------
D-/4-2\1---------------
A-------2----------0---
E---------2--0-2-4----

A
Look at the talk box
Ebm
And in frustration
B
At the station
E F# G    A
There hides the cowboy

His campfire flickering
G#m        E F#
On the landscape

B
But nothin grows on
C#m
But time still goes on
E        Ebm
Through each life of misery

        E                 |Guitar over this part:
Everybody's gotta hold on hope             |E-----------------
F# B    G#m    |B-5-4-2-0----------
It's the last thing that's holdin me         |G---------1^3-1-3-4-

E                 |Guitar over this part:
Everybody's gotta hold on hope             |E-----------------
F# B A        |B-5-4-2-0----------
It's the last thing that's holdin me         |G---------1^3-1-3-4-

E                  |Guitar over this part:
Everybody's gotta hold on hope             |E-----------------
F# B B        |B-5-4-2-0----------
It's the last thing that's holdin me         |G---------1^3-1-3-4-


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