Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 15:58:48 0000
From: John Walston
VALENTINE
written by Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars
as recorded by the Replacements on Please To Meet Me
as transcribed by John Walston (jwalston@mail.trincoll.edu)
D A G
Well you wish upon a star,
D A G
that turns into a plane
D A G
and I quess that`s right on par,
D A G
with who is left to blame
D A
If you were a pill, I`d take a hand ful at my will,
G
and knock you back with something sweet and strong,
D A
pretty tired you wake up, in febuary make-up,
G
like a fool and a lone star your gone
A G A G
Tonight makes love to all your kind tomorrow`s picking valentines
After paul sings Valentines the riff is just D A G, hit D with the
counting like:
D A G (I hope that`s clear, you should be able to get the
exact strum
1 2 + 3 + 4 + from the record, with the accents)
(second verse, pre-chorus, and chorus the same guitar part)
You pop up in some place,
so sick and so refined
Are you strung out on some face,
well I know it ain`t mine
If you were a pill, I`d take a handful at my will,
and knock you back with something sweet and strong.
Trouble keeping your head up, when your hungry and your fed up,
like a moon and lone star your gone.
Tonight makes love to all your kind, tomorrow`s picking valentines.
The bridge is just variations on the guitar parts already used, so I`m
not going to bother tabing in all out unless someone requests it.
The final pre-chorus/chorus is:
D A
If you were a pill, I`d take a handful at my will,
G
and knock you back with something sweet as wine
D A
Yesterday was their`s to say, this is their world and their time,
G
Well if tonight belongs to you, tomorrow`s mine!
A G A G
Tonight makes love to all your kind, tomorrow`s picking Valentines (2x)
D A G
1 2 + 3 + 4 +
The outro, apparently one of Westerberg`s favorite songwriting
tools(Think Kiss Me On The Bus) is just straight eighth note strums,
like so:
D A G
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
The main riff, if you want to get fancy, when you play A hammer on then
pull off to the 6th(E). When you play G, add in the 2nd(A). So the riff
looks like this:
D D A A6 A G Gadd2 G Gadd2
1 2 3 + 4 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+
