Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 18:52:03 +0000
From: Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk



Subject: /e/Melissa_Etheridge/Late September Dogs.tab

Late September Dogs
 -------------------
>From Melissa Etheridge's first album.


[bass intro] :

     ?5string B ----------12--------------
G ----------------------------------------------------------
D --------------------------12------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E ----15(16)-6-----4-------------7-----42--------2b4------
     |_________|         |_________|     ^          ^
 fret at 15, pick &          ^         slide     bend if you
 quickly bend to 16     {harmonics}              can (ouch),
then slide down to 6                           otherwise slide



[intro/first lines of verse]- picking pattern 1
                                                       D G B e
   // C                                      |     x_x________
e-||----------12----------|--------12--------|---  |_|_1_|_|_| 10th fret
B-||.------------(13)-----|-----------13-----|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.----------------(12)-|--------------12--|---  |_|_|_2_|_3
D-||--10---10-------------|-10--10-----------|---  |_|_|_|_4_|
   \                                        |     | | | | | |


      Csus                                   \    x_x________
e-------------13----------|--------13---------||-  |_|_1_|_|_| 10
B----------------(13)-----|-----------13-----.||-  |_|_|_|_|_|
G-------------------(12)--|--------------12--.||-  |_|_|_2_|_3
D-----10---10-------------|-10--10------------||-  |_|_|_|_4_4
                                             //    | | | | | |



 C                       Csus                     C       Csus
Just outside my window I hear the late September dogs
      C                       Csus                  C     Csus
and I understand their warning, I understand their song
 C                Csus                 C       Csus
Since you left, I feel a change in the air
     C                     Csus                  C        Csus
and night after night, I'm searching for mercy everywhere



[prechorus]:
      C                       Csus
so I wake in the street and I call out your name
        C              F(strum)
and I shout to the sky please,



[chorus]: (strumming)

               Am                     G
come on let it rain, let it rain down on me
                   F                         G
let the rain touch my hands let the rain set me free

           [pattern1] C    Csus   C    Csus
let it rain down on me



     C                      Csus                       C       Csus
 silence is the steel that pierces and cuts me to the bone
in dreams the hand that touches you is mine, and mine alone


      C                       Csus
cruel is the light, is the morning shining down on me
  C                       Csus
hours with the devil to understand just what you need


[pre-chorus],  2nd line "..rain fill my eyes.."

[chorus]

[bass solo]


[pattern1]
C                           Csus                     C      Csus
Just inside the distance, I hear the late September dogs
I so I beg for sleep, the child who walked before she crawled


C                   Csus                            C     Csus
damn my soul that remembers and clutches to this pain
      C                   F[strum]
the spear in your side is me come on let it ...

[chorus]

         Am                                 G
oh ho ho let it rain, let the rain fill my eyes
               F                            G
I don't wanna see, no, let it rain down on me

      [pattern1] C     Csus           C  Csus
let it rain down on me       oooh hooo


[outro]:

C   Csus [pattern1] to fade


Fingering:

Alternative fingering for C and Csus :
    C                  Csus
___________         ___________
|_|_1_1_1_1 10th    |_|_1_1_1_1  10th fret
|_|_|_|_|_|         |_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_3_3_3         |_|_|_3_3_3
|_|_|_|_4_|         |_|_|_|_4_4


If the C,Csus at the 10th fret is too trebly or hard on the fingers, it
also works playing C,Csus at the nut (or possibly C,F {bracketed}) like
this:

   // C                                      |     x_____o___o
e-||-----------0----------|---------0--------|---  |_|_|_|_1_|
B-||.-------------(1)-----|------------1-----|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.-----------------(0)-|---------------0--|---  |_3_4_|_|_|
D-||----------------------|------------------|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
A-||---3----3-------------|--3----3----------|---
  \

    Csus or {F}                              \    x_____o____
e--------------1----------|---------1---------||-  |_|_|_|_1_1
B-----------------(1)-----|------------1-----.||-  |_|_|_|_|_|
G---------------------(0)-|---------------0--.||-  |_3_4_|_|_|
D-----{3}--{3}------------|-{3}--{3}----------||-  |_|_|_|_|_|
A------3----3-------------|--3----3-----------||-
                                             //


Arrangement:

If you don't have loads of bass guitar in the back, it might be better to
strum C,Csus or even C,F at the prechorus, rather than continuing picking
pattern 1.


EADGBe
320003 - G
xx3211 - F
x02210 - Am


comments, improvements, etc. welcome


Nic


Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk