Prefab Sprout - Dublin

      

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 Dublin - Prefab Sprout

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 Tuning: Half step down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
 
 Prefab Sprout
 Dublin (1985, released 1989)
 (McAloon)
 
 From: "Protest Songs"
 
 This beauty has interesting chords thus creating a special texture.
 It is mostly picked.
 
 It is not easy to find out what is played and even though I think I got
 close, there are parts where I'm not sure at all. Especially the section
 I tabbed out below doesn't not seem elegant enough to me. Suggestions
 for corrections are highly welcome!
 
 I don't really know the names of some of the chords. But I didn't want to
 just "number" them, so I tried to name them anyway. Whoever knows more,
 please comment!

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 VERSE (last line)
 
 Em Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13 
     
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
                 

 e|------2---------|----------------|
 B|0-----2-------3-|------2---------|
 G|0-----0-------0-|--0---0---0-----|
 D|0-------------4-|------4---------|
 A|------2---------|------0-----0---|
 E|0-------------2-|----------------|
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 CHORDS/SPECIAL VOICINGS
 (alphabetically)

 E-A-D-G-B-E (half-step down)
 

 A6 x-0-2-2-2-2
 A7/13 x-0-4-0-2-x
 Aadd9 x-0-2-4-2-x
 Bsus2/13 x-2-x-0-2-2
 Bm13 x-2-4-0-3-x
 D/F# 2-x-4-2-3-x
 D11 x-5-4-0-3-x
 Em11 0-7-7-7-8-7
 F#m7 2-x-2-2-2-x
 Gmaj7 3-x-4-4-3-x
 
 The (A) indicates a single note

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 Tuning: Half step down
 
 INTRO
 | Em11 | % | % | % |
 
 D/F#     F#m7 Bm7      Em11 
 Who does not adore the sound
    A                     Em11 
 Of music in the names of towns
    D11                              A7sus4 
 To build a city on such picturesque ground
      Em         Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13 
 That takes some sort of flair
 
   D/F#    F#m7     Bm7    Em11 
 We draw a line the ink is fear
 A                             Em11 
 You stay that side we'll stay here
      D11                   A7sus4 
 It's far harder to keep it up
 Em      Bsus2/13 Bm13 A7/13 
 Than to tear it down
 
         Gmaj7                D/F#         
 Does it take you back to the kind of world
 Gmaj7                    (A) Aadd9 A 
 Hindsight calls the good old days?
          Gmaj7                 D/F#          
 Now that there's no room in an Einstein world
     Gmaj7           (A) Aadd9 A 
 For simple cause and effect
 
 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A

 Dub----lin Du---blin 
 

 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A(7)
 Home of pretty Co----leens
 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A

 Dub----lin Du---blin 
 

 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
 Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
 
 INTRO
 | Em11 | % | % | % |
 
   D/F#     F#m7     Bm7    Em11 
 Behind the soft and peachy skin
       A               Em11 
 Where D.N.A. or God begin
 D11                       A7sus4 
 Where sub-Gaelic rot sets in
      Em      Bsus2/13  Bm13  A7/13 
 With stories from your mother
    D/F#      F#m7  Bm7    Em11 
 In myths and less exalted forms
     A                       Em11 
 The heady cocktail glory is born
     D11                     A7sus4 
 You know it's not a bottled storm
    Em     Bsus2/13 Bm13    A7/13 
 So why do you indulge it?
 
 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A

 Dub----lin Du---blin 
 

 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A(7)
 Home of pretty Co----leens
 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A

 Dub----lin Du---blin 
 

 *Gmaj7 Em A A6 Gmaj7 A
 Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
 
 OUTRO
 | Em11 | % | % | % |
 That's what my mother told me
 When I was about knee-high
 That's what my mother told me
 When I was about knee-high
 That's what my mother told me
 When I was about knee-high
 That's what my mother told me