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Pixies
Song: Trompe Le Monde
Album: Trompe Le Monde
Tabbed by: Derek


  [INTRO] there are two different guitars

  one:               two:              one:
E|--9---8---7---7--|-------------3--|--9---8---7---7---7---7---
B|--7---7---7---8--|---------6---3--|--7---7---7---8---8---7---
G|--7-----------7--|---------6---4--|--7-----------7---7---7---
D|-----------------|---------6---5--|--------------------------
A|-----------------|--4------4---5--|--------------------------
E|-----------------|-----3-------3--|--------------------------


  two:             one:         two:    one:         two:
E|------------2--|--------10--|--5----|-----------|------------
B|------------2--|---------9--|--6----|--------6--|------------
G|--------7---3--|-----9---9--|--7----|--------7--|--6-\-------
D|-----7------4--|--9---------|--7----|-----7-----|--7-\-------
A|--5---------4--|------------|--5----|--5--------|--7-\-------
E|------------2--|------------|-------|-----------|--5-\-------


 E  F  F#7(add9)  

[VERSE]

F#  B   Bm     F#  B  Bm
Why  do cupids and  angels
   F#  B  Bm   F#        D
Contin---ually haunt her dreams
     B     D
like memories ...
F#  B  Bm    F#
Of   another life
B   Bm      F#     D            B(add4)
 Is painted on her shirt in capital
G           E
 Out on the free free way
G             D          B
 There's only she an the they
     D      B  A   G 
Represented by the lights


[BRIDGE] - intro played over this (slightly different)

E|----9---8---7---7--|-----------------------3--|
B|----7---7---7---8--|-----------------------3--|
G|----7-----------7--|----------------6------4--|
D|-------------------|------------6----------5--|
A|-------------------|-------4---------------5--|
E|-------------------|-----------------------3--|
                           (C#)             (G)
  We went to the store and bought something great


E|-----9---8----7---7---|-----------------2-----|
B|-----7---7----7---8---|-----------------2-----|
G|-----7------------7---|-------------7---3-----|
D|----------------------|---------7-------4-----|
A|----------------------|-----5-----------4-----|
E|----------------------|-----------------2-----|
                              (D)        (F#)
 Which samples this song from washington state

E  F#  Dm  A  (<-- over “circus” sounding music)

E  F  F#7(add9)

[VERSE 2]
F# B       Bm     F# 
Go, little record go
B   Bm       F#
 It is named by
B     Bm        F# 
 some guy named joe
        D              B              D
and the words, are the letters of the words
F#   B   Bm        F#
Said, electrically played
B    Bm    F#        D                 B(add4)
 for outer space and those of they who paid
G             E
 This song is twice ocurred
G            D       B    D     B  A  G
 And now its time to go away on holiday.

______________________________________________________________________
 this is what some guy named Joe does in the second part of the verse:

E-------14------14-------14------14--------14------14--------14------14-
B----14------14-------14------14--------16------16--------15------15----
G-15------15-------15------15--------16------16--------16------16-------
D-----------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------

 (I’m not really sure how he plays it so fast without ‘blending’ the 
 notes together.)

F#7(add9)   B(add4)
---0----------0--
---0----------0--
---3----------4--
---4----------4--
---4----------2--
--(2)------------

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