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Golden Brown by The Stranglers - Guitar Chords
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Song: Golden brown
Artist: The Stranglers
Album: La Folie
Composers:Jean-Jacques Burnel,Jet Black,Hugh Cornwell,& David Greenfield
Tabbed by: DJ 31th May 2014
TIME SIGNATURES:
The first part of the intro section is a bar of 6/8 followed by a bar
of 7/8, before settling back into 6/8 throughout the links and verses.
I find it much simpler to think of the count as 3 bars of 3/4,
with a bar of 4/4 on the end...
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / |
The above is the sequence until it changes to alternating from Dm to C
for the verses, which are 3 beats for each chord.
KEY: Judging by performances on Youtube, the band play it live in Bbm.
Another different unique version with Hugh Cornwell and Mariachi Mexteca
is performed a semi-tone lower, in Am.
FINE TUNING: The original studio tracks are quite sharp above standard
pitch, likely everything was tuned to the unusual pitch of the harpsichord.
Standard pitch for A4 = 440Hz, but for the harpsicord pitch it is 415Hz.
To more closely match the original studio recording, you need to use a
chromatic tuner and tune all of your guitar strings up between
approx. + 20 to +25 cents above standard tuning, and then add a capo
at the first fret.
CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded approx. key of Bbm)
Played fingerstyle
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 C/D = xx0x10 F = xx3x11
Em = 022000 C = x3xx10 F/E = xx2x11
F = 133211 C/B = x2xx10 F/D = xx0x11
C/E = xx2x10 G = 320033 F/C = x3xx11
(C4) = x33010 Dm = xx0231
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[Intro sequence]
Am Em F C/E C/D C C/B
e |---------0----|------0-----|----------1-----|--0---0---0---0--| [x3]
B |--1--------1--|--0------0--|---1---------1--|--1---1---1---1--|
G |--2-----------|--0---------|---2------------|-----------------|
D |------2-------|------------|-------3--------|--2---0----------|
A |--0-----------|------------|----------------|----------3---2--|
E |--------------|--0---------|---1------------|-----------------|
Am Em G F F/E F/D F/C
e |---------0----|------0------|----------3-----|---1---1---1---1---|
B |--1--------1--|--0------0---|---3--------3---|---1---1---1---1---|
G |--2-----------|--0----------|---0------------|-------------------|
D |------2-------|-------------|-------0--------|---3---2---0-------|
A |--0-----------|-------------|----------------|---------------3---|
E |--------------|--0----------|---3------------|-------------------|
Dm (Dm7) C (C4)(C) Dm (Dm7) C (C4)(C)
e |--1-----------|---------------|---1------------|----------------|
B |--3-----------|--1------------|---3------------|---1------------|
G |-----------2--|--0------------|-------------2--|---0------------|
D |--0-----3-----|--------3--0---|---0------3-----|---------3--0---|
A |--------------|--3------------|----------------|---3------------|
E |--------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|
[Verse 1]
Dm C Dm C Dm C
Golden brown, texture like sun, lays me down,
Dm C Dm C
With my mind she runs ...throughout the night,
Dm C Dm C Dm C
No need to fight, never a frown ...with golden brown
[Link]
Dm (Dm7) C (C4)(C) Dm (Dm7) C (C4)(C)
e |--1-----------|---------------|---1------------|----------------|
B |--3-----------|--1------------|---3------------|---1------------|
G |-----------2--|--0------------|-------------2--|---0------------|
D |--0-----3-----|--------3--0---|---0------3-----|---------3--0---|
A |--------------|--3------------|----------------|---3------------|
E |--------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|
[Verse 2]
Dm C Dm C Dm C Dm C
Every time...just like the last, on her ship, tied to the mast,
Dm C Dm C Dm C Dm C
To distant lands, takes both my hands, never a frown with golden brown
[As intro sequence tab]
Am Em F C/E C/D C C/B
||: / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
Am Em G F F/E F/D F/C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / |
Dm C Dm C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |
[Verse 3]
Dm C Dm C
Golden brown, finer temp - tress,
Dm C Dm C
Through the ages she's heading west,
Dm C Dm C Dm C Dm C
From far a - way, stays for a day, never a frown ...with golden brown
[As intro sequence tab]
Am Em F C/E C/D C C/B
||: / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
Am Em G F F/E F/D F/C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / |
Dm C Dm C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |
[Break]
Dm C Dm C
||: / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / :|| [x4]
[As intro sequence tab]
Am Em F C/E C/D C C/B
||: / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
Am Em G F F/E F/D F/C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / / |
Dm C Dm C
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |
[Verse 4]
Dm C Dm C
||: Da -ddle, da -ddle! Da -ddle, da -ddle, da -ddle! Da -dum! :||[x3]
Dm C Dm C
Na - na, na - na, na! Na - na, na - na, na!
[Verse 5 -Stay in 3/4 time]
Am Em F G
E |---------0----|------0------|----------1-----|---------3-------| [x2]
B |--1--------1--|--0------0---|---1---------1--|--3----------3---|
G |--2-----------|--0----------|---2------------|--0--------------|
D |------2-------|-------------|-------3--------|-----------------|
A |--0-----------|-------------|----------------|-----------------|
E |--------------|--0----------|---1------------|--3--------------|
Am Em F G Am Em F G
Ne - ver a frown ...with golden brown, | / / / | / / / | / / / |
Am Em F G Am Em F
Ne - ver a frown ...with golden brown! | / / / | / / / |
[Coda]
G Am Em F G Am Em F
||: Never a frown------- with golden brown! | / / / | / / / :||[x2]
G Am
| / / / | / ||
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