Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:19:13 -0500
Subject: (Crd) The Who--Baba O`Reilly
From: lancelot@pipeline.com (Andrew Paul Cherry)
The Who--Baba O`Reilly
Starts out on a synth, but using two guitars:
Guitar 1:
Finger
e x
B x
G 10
D 10
A 8
E x
Pick quickly A-A-D-D-G-G-D-D-A-A-D-D-G-G-D-D (all sixteenth notes) over and
over
(Technically, this is until the end of the song, when the violin comes in.)
Guitar 2:
Finger:
e 13
B 13
G 10
D x
A x
E x
Pick quickly G-G-B-B-e (The G and B strings are played as sixteenth, the e
is picked as an eighth)
After 5 repetitions, the piano enters, after four piano and synth parts,
the drums and bass enter. The piano and bass play a simple
F-C-Bb progression
For guitar in place of piano, it is played
F C Bb
e 5 3 1
B 6 5 3
G 5 5 3
D x x x
A x x x
E x x x
The first verse is played the same way:
F C Bb
Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don`t need to fight
To prove I`m right
I don`t need to be forgiven
(yeah yeah yeah yeah ye-ah!)
NOW Townshend throws in the power chords along the same rhythm (F-C-Bb)
Play that pattern 5 times, then it softens for the bridge:
Play C5 three times, then softly strum a first-position C chord
(With the opening F5 synth pattern only:)
Don`t cry
Don`t raise your eyes
It`s only a teenage wasteland
The chords ring in again, with bass and drums, the synth still rolling
Sally take my hand
We`ll travel south cross land
Put out the fire but don`t look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy won`t come near
Let`s get together before we get much older
A soft guitar solo, in the same key, but one I can`t figure out yet.
Hitting a few F5 chords, the drums and bass ring back in and the bar chords
return in the F-C-Bb pattern:
Teenage wasteland!
Teenage wasteland!
Teenage wasteland, oh yeah!
Teenage wasteland!
They`re all wasted!
F-F-C-C-Bb-Bb-C-C
Tab:
F chord:
e: -12-13-15--12-13-15-1213-15
Repeat, over a C then Bb chord, then, over C
e: -15-13-15-13-15-12--15-13-15-12-13-15-12-----15
The violin comes in over the synth part, which fades out as the violin
plays until the end, when the synth returns for a crescendo up onto yet
again the F5 chord.
A classic, a masterpiece--only Pete Townshend (although any group doing
this without Keith Moon on drums loses something!)
Kevin Cherry
lancelot@pipeline.com
00cherry@cua.edu
Fletch, this time you goofed big. . .in the story of yours we ran
Wednesday, you have recent quotes from a man who`s been dead two
years. . . .
At least give me a chance to check my sources.
Like who? Saint Peter? You get him on the line, I want to know.
__Gregory Mcdonald, Fletch and the Widow Bradley
