Corporal Brown Lyrics

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:51:58 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"
Subject: Tab: Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Corporal Brown"
Tab: "Corporal Brown" Toad the Wet Sprocket
All guitars capoed at second fret
Intro: Guitars 1 and 2
Cadd9/G (bass plays G)
Gadd6/A (A in bass) Gadd6 (bass plays B)
|--0---0---0---0--0---0-0--0--0--0--0--|*| Play this 9 times
Notes in parenthesis are played only by guitar 2, and only after the
second repeat
Verse:
|--0--0--0--0--------0h2p0-----0--| Guitar 2 plays for the verse
corporal brown was tall, boy!
and liked to go and fish
corporal's wife was quite fat
and was a raving bitch
Pre-chorus:
|--0--0--|--2--2--|--0--0--|--2--2--| Guitar 1 plays these chords,
|--2--2--|--2--2--|--0--0--|--0--0--| Guitar 2 plays the same
|--2--2--|--------|--------|--------| chords, but muted, and in
|--------|--------|--3--3--|--------| eighth notes
ss4
and i'm a bit drunk as i watch
they are yelling loud, he throws a punch
Chorus:
Guitar 1 plays the same chords from the intro,
Guitar 2 plays this over all the chords
oh lord, what am i gonna do?
|--0--0--0--0-----2b(3)r2p0-----0--| Before the verse, guitar 2
|--2--2--2--2----------------2-----| plays this variation on the
|----------------------------------| verse riff three times
Verse:
corporal brown was quite scared
when he looked down at her
corporal's wife was quite dead
so he carried her...
Prechorus:
and took her outside
dug a grave and placed her inside
i was amazed
Chorus:
oh lord, what am i gonna do?
(repeat variation of main riff 4 times,
ending on second to last note)