The Rolling People Lyrics

e: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:40:30 EST
From: CheshirBat
Subject: TAB: The Rolling People - by Verve
"The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
Produced by Youth/The Verve
Intro:
The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
Right after the last B5 chord:
Then comes the riff:
It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
since that's basically the key to sounding like them.
* Verse 1 *
(with riff)
Been shot...
I got one more life,
Can you see it wastin' away?
But I got a plan,
Ahh..do you understand?
(solo 1) - Played sort of distorted and bluesy
Play something like this in the B blues scale with
delay on the upward run...
* Verse 2 *
(I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)
With a drugstore life,
I was dealin' soda then of the white... (?!)
I don't shake no hands,
Cause then there's no fans...
*Chorus*
But here we are, the Rolling People
Can't stay for long, we gotta go
So come alive, we're the Rolling People
Don't ask why, we just know...
* Verse 3 *
On a big jet plane
with my briefcase and crime in my veins
I'll be the first to toast
Yeah..to my rockin' soul, yeah.
*Chorus*
And here we are, the Rolling People
Don't ask why, we don't know...
So come alive, we're the Rolling People
Don't ask why, we just know...
(solo 2) - Played very clean
Play and repeat the 2nd line a few times..
*And the rest of the lyrics*:
Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
plays echoey notes in the B scale.
Tell me do you know which way I'm gonna choose..
The lights are white and I am feelin' blue..
I hope you know which way I'm gonna fly..
Thank you for my life, I said good night, goodbye...
Back to the riff, and the song gets out of control.
The "eep" part at the end of the song:
EEP, EEP eep, eep
Best of luck.. This song kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!
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