Passenger Lyrics

Passenger - tab & chords for guitar and mandolin
Description: For all morning I've been trying to tab this fantastic song for guitar
solo, but in all ways it sounds differently
from the video on youtube (played with a mandolin). So on wikipedia I saw the musical
notes on the strings in a mandolin
and realised that they were the same notes in a violin. I took my violin (I have not a
mandolin) and easily and quickly
played all song using it like a little guitar. Now i put here the tab for
mandolin/violin and a guitar tab that sounds
like the original song. You can also try to tune your guitar in eADG but you have to
tuning the B string in A, remove
the G string and put there the D string, than put the A string at the side of the D
string, tuning this string in G.
Notation:
f = fast
' = stress
Verse:
A--------2---2---2---'f0--------3---3---3----'f0-|
G---'0--------0------------'0---------0----------|
Chorus:
e-------------3------------'0-------------0----------------'0--|
G---'0-----------0-------------0---------------0---------------|
She was bi - - - - - - - - -
(than repeat for "why?" many times)
Bridge:
e-------------'2-----------2-------------2------------------2--|
G---'2-----------2-------------2---------------2---------------|
oh my sa - tel -
e-------------0------------'0-------------3-----------------f3-|
G---'0-----------0-------------'0--------------0---------------|
li - te
E A for the verse and the chorus and B, A, E for the Bridge.
Verse:
Chorus:
Bridge:
Play the chords D = 224442 C = 002220 and G = 022100 with the same rythm of the chorus.
Verse:
Walking round Chicago,
I have smuggled you as cargo,
though you are far away unknowing.
By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase,
ironed the creases from my own remembering.
Chorus:
She said Bi - - - rd, why - - -?
Verse 2:
We wound our way to Texas
where I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion I might phone you,
but there it lived and died, a notion.
Chorus 2:
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Bridge:
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
Verse 3:
We came up on Ohio,
I have you chewed on like a biro.
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
We came to Minneapolis,
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
I buried you in a day of snowing.
Chorus 3:
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Bridge 2:
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.