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Frank Black and the Catholics
Song: Manitoba
Album: Show Me Your Tears
Tabbed by: Dave Noisy (www.frankblack.net/about/davenoisy.asp)
Intro + picky part: ProverbialCereal

[Note, lyrics are from the liner, slightly different in the recording.]

In 6/8 time

[INTRO]

   (2 times)
e--7-h-10--0--|----7-------1--0------
b--8-------0--|--8----3----1--1---3--
g----------9--|--7----0----2--0---0--
d---------10--|-------0----3--2---0--  x2
a---------10--|-------2----3--3---2--
e----------8--|-------3-----------3--  
         Cmaj7        G    F  C   G

[VERSE]

[G] [Em7] x2

[G]Up in [Em7]Manitoba
The [C]sky was very [Am]blue
The [C]people were a [Am]few
[G]And nights were never [Em7]colder

Once I heard a wailing sound
The sky had turned to red
So I got up from my bed
And I wandered far from town

	[PRECHORUS]

	[Bm] [D]

	[CHORUS]

	[G]I have [C]seen the face of God
	And I was not [D]afraid
	[G]I have [C]seen the [Em]face of [C]God
	And [C]I have [D]dearly [G]paid   [Em7]

[VERSE]

The darkness came right down on me
There were no more lights to follow
So I slept inside the hollow
Of a dead and fallen tree

Did you know three days I tried
To wake myself?  But, no
My flesh had turned to snow
And i thought that I had died

        [PRECHORUS]
	[CHORUS]
        
        [SOLO] - over chorus chords

And though I had it rough
They got me home in time
They gave me homemade wine
But it was not enough

The cold had made me dumb
And I was sent away
These walls are here today
For fifty years and some

	[CHORUS] x2

 [G] [Em]   [G] [Em]   [G] [Em]   [G]


[OUTRO] - over chorus x2 (play Bm-D after first time)

End on G
    

Yay!  Dave Noisy's first tab contribution!
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If you want to play that picking rhythm, this is it below.
Basically the root note changes but the same notes on the
G, B, e strings are always played.

  [Example over first verse]

e---------0--------------0--------------0--------------0-----
B-------3---3----------3---3----------3---3----------3---3---
G-----0-------0------0-------0------0-------0------0-------0-
D------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------3--------------0------------
E--3--------------0------------------------------------------
   G6            Em7            C2              Am7
   Up  in   Manitoba,       the sky was  very  blue


e---------0--------------0--------------0---------------0----
B-------3---3----------3---3----------3---3-----------3---3--
G-----0-------0------0-------0------0-------0-------0-------0
D------------------------------------------------------------
A--3--------------0------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------3---------------0-----------
    C2             Am7           G6              Em7
    People were a few,      and nights were never colder

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