"Pictures of Matchstick Men"
>From the Howard Stern/Private Parts Soundtrack
Tabbed by Raza Mahmood
Tune guitars 2.5 steps below standard:
low to high B, E, A, D, F#, B
(Keyboard/clean guitar with chorus and delay)||-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|
(Guitar volume swells in bkgrnd)|-10/14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|||-------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------||
|-10-11-12-12-12-12-12-12-10-11-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------||
(Heavy distortion with slight chorus)||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||-9--9-9-9-11--11/12-12-12-12-------------------12-12-12-12/14-|||-7--7-7-7--9-X-9/10-10-10-10--9--9/12-12-12-12-10-10-10-10/12-|||------------------------------7--7/10-10-10-10----------------|
"OOH" "AH" (2 times)|--------------------||-------------------------------|||--------------------||-------------------------------|||--------------------||-------------------------------|||-14-14-14-12-12-14--||-9-XX-12-9---9---9-9--7--9-11--|||-12-12-12-10-10-12\-||-7-XX-10-7-X-7-X-7-7--5--7--9--|||--------------------||-------------------------------||
"When I look up to the sky I see your eyes in a funny kind of||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||-9--9-9-9-11--11/12-12-12-12-------------------12-12-12-12/14-|||-7--7-7-7--9-X-9/10-10-10-10--9--9/12-12-12-12-10-10-10-10/12-|||------------------------------7--7/10-10-10-10----------------|
Yellow..." (6 times) |--------------------|||--------------------|||--------------------|||-14-14-14-12-12-14--|||-12-12-12-10-10-12\-|||--------------------||
"OOH" "AH" (2 times)||-------------------------------||||-------------------------------||||-------------------------------||||-9-XX-12-9---9---9-9--7--9-11--||||-7-XX-10-7-X-7-X-7-7--5--7--9--||||-------------------------------||
"Pictures of matchstick men and you..." (3 times) pm....| pm.| pm..|||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------2-2-2-2-223344557-||||-7-7-7-7--7/9-9-9------2-2-2-2-223344557-||||-5-5-5-5--5/7-7-7-/12\-0-0-0-0-----------||
Bkgrnd guitar...Kenny's just bending the note up and down 1 step||------------------------------------------||||-^10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10->10-10-10-10-||||------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------||||------------------------------||||--9---9---------7---7---------||||--9---9---------7---7---------||||--7---7---------5---5------X\-||||------------------------------||
"Windows... ...yeah they go"||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||-5---5-5----5---5---5---5-4---4-4-0-------------7---7-7-7---7-|||-5---5-5----5---5---5-5-5-4---4-4-0-5---5---5-5-7---7-7-7---7-|||-3--X3-3--X-3-X-3-X-3-3-3-2--X2-2-0-5---5---5-5-5--X5-5-5-X-5-|||------------------------------------3-X-3-X-3-3---------------|
"...alone Oh no!"|-------------||------------------------------|||-------------||------------------------------|||-------------||------------------9---9-------|||-------------||------------------9---9-------|||---5-7-5h7p5-||-/9---9-----------7---7---X\--|||-5-----------||-/7---7---/12\----7---7---X\--||
"...Lie you win the sky, you win the sky you make me cry||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------------------|||-9--9-9-9-11--11/12-12-12-12-------------------12-12-12-12/14-|||-7--7-7-7--9-X-9/10-10-10-10--9--9/12-12-12-12-10-10-10-10/12-|||------------------------------7--7/10-10-10-10----------------|
you..." (3 times)|--------------------||-----------|||--------------------||-----------|||--------------------||-----------|||-14-14-14-12-12-14--||--2--------|||-12-12-12-10-10-12\-||--2----X\--|||--------------------||--0----X\--||
"I can see the matchstick men" (end bkgd guitar...til fade)||-----------------------------||-16--16-17\12-12/19-17-16-17-||||-----------------------------||-----------------------------||||-----------------------------||-----------------------------||||------------------------/5~~-||-----------------------------||||--7-----5---7-4-----3--------||-----------------------------||||------7-----------5----------||-----------------------------||
