Pixies – Subbacultcha tab

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- Pixies

transcribed by Adam Farmer 

the lyrics are at the bottom, you can work out
where they go by listening to the record. I've
split the song into sections and the arrangement
is below.

PART 1--------------------------------------------------guitar 1?---------------------------------------------|?----------------------------------8----------|?----------------------------------10(b)------|?---------------------------------------------|?---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--------------|?---0--0--3--0--0--3--0--0--3--3--------------|
add slight bend to the G notes ---------------------------------------------------
PART 2---------------------------------------------------guitar 1?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------5-----------------------|?---2--2--------5--5--3--0--------------------|?---0--0--4--0--3--3--------------------------|
guitar 2?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---10----------------------------------------|?------------------------12-------------------|
play note at tenth fret, A string through two of guitar one's progression, then slide down from 12 fret, E string. Play above through first verse ---------------------------------------------------- PART 3 ----------------------------------------------------
guitar 1?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------3-----------------------|?---0--0--4--0--3--3-----0--------------------|
guitar 2 ?:F7  ??-------------?--------------?-----------------? ?-------------?-18(b)20------?-20-----------------------------------------------------------? ?-------------?--------------?------------21------------------------------------------------? ?-------------?--------------?--------------------------------------------------------------? ?-10----------?--------------?--------------------------------------------------------------? ?----------12-?-----------12-?--------------------------------------------------------------? play guitar 1 thoughout second verse adding slight bend to the fretted notes. ignore the spacing for guitar 2, listen to the record for how to play them, remember to slide down from second note. ---------------------------------------------------- PART 4 ---------------------------------------------------- guitar 1 E chord throughout
guitar 2?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---------------------------------------------|?---10----------------------------------------|?------------------------12-------------------|
play open E chord throughout play guitar 2 the same as in PART 2. ----------------------------------------------------- Part 1 x2 Part 2 through first verse E chord while singing Subbacultcha Part 3 through second verse Part 4 through third verse Lyrics : This is a song about something there There is something about this song We did the clubs what ass I was to have her in the sack I was looking handsome She was looking like an erotic vulture I was all dressed in black She was all dressed up in black Everything was fine down here What you call it here Call it what you will here Way down down down in this Subbacultcha Her warm white belly in the life I'd lived had seen nothing Finer she shakes and she moves me or something ?:F7  ?She's like jellyroll sculpture I was wearing eyeliner She was wearing eyeliner It was good down here Saving for my scrapbook here Way down down down in this Subbacultcha Now we live on the sea and relax and ride the tack Drug running on this panamanian schooner She walks the deck in a black dress And me I dress up in black And we listen to the sea And look at the sky in a poetic kind of way What you call it When you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way You know when you grope for luna 
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