Second Coming The Stranglers
The Stranglers - Second Coming
Tabbed By: Reecy
Email: Bushhead81@Hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
SECOND COMING
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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
Date of Transcription: 3rd April 2002
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intro: keyboard - D - C# C - C#
main riff:
[D] [C]
E---------------------------------------------------------| G---10--10----10--10------------0---------------0---------| B----9---9-----9---9----------5-----5---------5-----5-----| D----7---7-----7---7--------5---------5-----5---------5---| A-------------------------3---------------3---------------| E---------------------------------------------------------|
(play riff throughout the verses)
[D]Somewhere in Africa, [C]somewhere in Rome
[D]People are sleeping [C]awake in their homes
[D]Waiting for shepherds to [C]tend to their sheep
[D]Their disappointments lay [C]piled in a corner heap
chorus:
this is kind of a question and answer section, the bass and
keyboards play the riff... and then the guitar plays a riff.
bass root notes are provided in the brackets above.
[(Bb] [E] [Eb)] [(F] [B] [Bb)] [(C] [Gb] [F)] [(G] [Db] [C)]
E------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------| G------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------| B---*bass*-------0-|---*bass*-------0-|---*bass*--------0--|---*bass*-------0---| D---*bass*-----0---|---*bass*-----0---|---*bass*------0----|---*bass*-----0-----| A------------8-----|------------3-----|------------10------|------------5-------| E----------6-------|----------1-------|----------8---------|----------3---------|
A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.
[(Bb] [E] [Eb)] [(F] [B] [Bb)] [(C] [Gb] [F)] [(A] [D] [Db] [A] [D] [Db)]
E------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------| G------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------| B---*bass*-------0-|---*bass*-------0-|---*bass*--------0--|-----*no guitar*----| D---*bass*-----0---|---*bass*-----0---|---*bass*------0----|--- *no guitar*----| A------------8-----|------------3-----|------------10------|--------------------| E----------6-------|----------1-------|----------8---------|--------------------|
A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.
[(A] [D] [Db] [A] [D] [Db)]
E------------------| G------------------| B------------9--9--| D------------7--7--| A------------------| E------------------|
(It will come in!)
(main riff)
[D]Turn on the sets and then [C]wait for the show
[D]Will he have long hair and [C]what will he know?
[D]Will he tell jokes or will [C]he make us cry?
[D]If we write to him will [C]he send back a reply?
(chorus)
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
(it will come in!)
(main riff)
[D]Like everybody I [C]wait for the day
[D]Like everybody I'll [C]send him away
[D]He may be ugly and [C]have problem hair
[D]Even speak funny and [C]make all the people stare
[D]A second co - ming will come in
[C]A second co - ming will come in
[D]A second co - ming will come in
[C]A second co - ming will come in
[D]Second [C]coming...
(repeat verse riff until fade)
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