Mother Hips Lyrics

Tab Taken From MyGuitarTabs.com
Mother Hips
Lyrics/music by Tim Bluhm
From the album "Shootout" (1996)
Tablature by Collin Spencer
Tab Symbols:
b = bend up (number after the b represents the target note)
r = release bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
For a guide to text-file tab notation, check out this URL:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab-notation.txt
Chord shapes are at the end
Riff 1a (intro)
[Verse notes: During the verses, one of the guitars is playing eighth notes
on the upbeats of beats 2 and 3, this is done on the 13th frets of the high
E and B strings, i.e. the top two strings, listen for it on the album.
The tabs after each line are the fills that are played after each verse.]
You used to be so beautiful on your father's house on the hill
Carrying your black-bound books beyond the world of thrill
We'd dreamed of blond haired children who'd run between my legs
You ordered me an omelet but I was not eating eggs
Riff 1b
You gave me 547 days to try and find a start
Or the railway line to heaven where you arranged to send your heart
I used to put an X across the days that you and I missed
But I've burned my calendar and gone to sleep and dreamed of your mother hips
Riff 1c
The next time that I saw you, yeah, your hair had turned to brown
You yelled at me across the room but you did not make a sound
You were standing with a widower who lost his will to try
And was fooling all the drunken girls who came to see him cry
Late at night through the candlelight, I told you it wasn't just for kicks,
You said, "what?" and we nestled down into your mother hips
Riff 1d
And now for the the solo:
[Note: Midway through the solo, a second guitar comes in with a harmony, but
for the sake of simplicity and notation I have only written out the top part.
The lower harmony notes are a major third lower, as far as I can tell. Also,
the chords that accompany the solo are F-A-Bb-C in succession.]
|-11p10--13p10-(8x)---|
|-13b15(hold)15-15r13-10-------------|-------------------------|
|-------15p13--(play 14x)----13-13-13-13-13-13-|
Late at night through the candlelight, I told you it wasn't just for kicks,
You said, "what?" and we nestled down into your mother hips
(cool electric piano riff)
Then finish it up on an F Chord
Chord Shapes:
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