Roy Orbison Knows

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                  ROY ORBISON KNOWS (THE BEST MAN'S SONG)

  W[E]ell your voice grips me tight l[A]ike fingers  [C#m]              [F#]

   [A]          [B]
   [E]   [bass run:
   [Ab]    [A]     [Bb]
   [B]]
  T[B7]akes hold of whatever's inside

  T[E]hough we try to harmonize with [A]different singers  [C#m]              [F#]
                                                          ...............

   [A]                       [B]                      [E]
   [A]
  W[E]hen we[E]'re o[E]ut of[F#] tune [F#]at lea[Ab]st we'[Ab]ll know we tried

  B[A]aby its a hopeles[B]s feeling

  L[D]eaves Mister Logic reeling

  I[A] love you I know, but wh[E]at does that mean

  W[C#m]hen the   only place forward is wh[F#]ere we've just been

  I[A]ts time to think twice, its [A]time to decide

   [E]      [
   [Ab]       [A]         [Bb]
   [B]]
  T[B7]urn and keep walking or be my bride

   [A]
   [Asus4]
  O[A]r be my bride, yeah,

  O[E]r be [Esus4]my bride [E]

   [E]           [E7]
   [A]
  W[C#m]ell Roy Orb[C#m]ison, h[Cm]e know[Bm]s  tha[F#]t I can't forget you

   [A]               [B]
   [E] [
   [Ab]    [A]     [Bb]
   [B]]
  W[B7]ell he told me last night at forty-five

   [E]                       [E7]
   [A]
  H[C#m]ope this h[C#m]onesty [Cm]doesn'[Bm]t hone[F#]stly upset you
                                                                       .........

   [A]                        [B]                              [E]
   [A]
  H[E]e sai[E]d to [F#]lie is[Ab] death[A] to love - I know it's still alive, yeh

  B[A]aby when the morning[B]s breakin'

  S[D]o many actresses 've already started fakin'

  I[A] love you I know, but its not su[E]ch a big deal

  I[C#m]'m gonna   tape you this song on[F#] my reel to reel to reel

  I[A]ts time to think twice, [A7]make up your mind

   [E]     [
   [Ab]        [A]       [Bb]
   [B]]
  T[B7]ake me to the altar  or leave me behind

  O[A]r leave me behind, [E]yeah, [Esus4]or leave m[E]e behind

  W[E]ell my memories, they li[A]e to me just because the[C#m]y want to  [C#m]         [Cm]               [Bm]                     [F#]

  W[A]ell like a runaway train, y[B]ou know, I have no[E] contro[B7]l

   [E]                                     [E7]    [A]                            [C#m]         [C#m]
  I[Cm]'m gonna tell 'em where you live    so that they can go and haunt you  \Bm F#
                                                                    ........

   [A]                             [B]
   [E] (
   [E7])
   [A]
  A[E]nd tak[E]e bac[F#]k and [G]take [A]back all the parts of me you stole

  B[A]ut I no longer feel li[B]ke crying,

  M[D]y nervous system's dying

  I[A] love you I know, but I'm a[E]naesthetised

  I[C#m] was   foolishly hopeful, [Cm]now I'[F#]ve realised

   [A]
  I[A7]t was time to think twice, you had to go

  I[E] hope that you blossom, I h[C#m]ope that you grow

   [A]
  W[A7]rite me a postcard make it some little thing

  I[E]f you get married, I'll carr[C#m]y the ring

   [A]
  I[B7]f you get married introduce me to him

   [A]
   [Asus4]
  I[A]ntroduce me to him
                           ,,,,,

   [E]
   [A]
   [B]
   [A]
  I[E]ntroduce me to him

2. I'm pretty certain that the words  are  correct  after  initially  being
   unsure who "'ve already started fakin'" and about "Write me  a  postcard
   make it .....", "I know it's still alive" and  "Mister Logic".   Whether
   you sing "or be my bride" etc. or "woah be my bride" is entirely  up  to
   you.

3. Don't worry too much about the specific chord fingerings  for  the  most
   part, nor that you have this uncontrollable urge to play an A7  of  some
   variety when "its time to decide" - Wes decided not too  just  for  that
   verse.

4. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for  email  address)
   or to request tabs for songs.  If you have a favourite  JWH  song  you'd
   like me to have a go at, let me know.   I now have the four full albums,
   "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night",  "Why We Fight" and
   "Here Comes The Groom".  If I haven't got the songs,  I  could  only  do
   them if you send me an audio tape with them on.  If you could  work  out
   the lyrics, that would be a great help.  The songs  I've  tabbed/chorded
   so far are:
        From "The Name Above The Title":
                I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
                Save A Little Room For Me
                The People's Drug
                The Person You Are
                Long Dead Gone              } lyrics supplied by
                Backing Out                 } Alan Pulliam - thanks
        from "It Happened One Night":
                Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
                                           - thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
                Kiss/Lovers' Society {coming shortly}
    and from "Here Comes The Groom"
                The Red Rose And The Briar  } thanks to Patrick Barnett
    and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
                When The Sun Comes Out      } thanks to Patrick again

   These are archived on the guitar tab archives,  ftp.nevada.edu  and  its
   mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local  mirror  sites  by
   using a program such as "archie".   Cal Woods  &  Jim  Carson,  the  new
   maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
   archie searches.  It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive".   You  can  find
   the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

   unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

   Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

       Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
{sot}            FILE -r--r--r--         80  Jun 16 09:21  Nevada.Guitar.Archive{eot}

   Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

5. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin  (ftp.maths.tcd.ie)  has  also
   uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
        /pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

   In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is  a  copy  of  Crystal
   Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy  James  and  the  Chandelles  (sp?)
   which appears on "The Name Above The Title".  There doesn't appear to be
   a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

6. Enjoy!

Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC

"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
 - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"