Rush - Prime Mover

      
 
 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 22:05:12 -0700 (MST)
 From: "Anthony John Zimmermann"
 
 Rush
 Prime Mover
 Hold Your Fire
 Music and Lyrics by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
 
 Transcribed by Tony Zimmermann
 
 Comments Welcome

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 Palm mute, 2x D, 2x

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 D Bm A (2x)
 
 Top part: Rhy. Fig. 1
 
 Basic Elemental...

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 | (Two Guitars) |

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 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rush/prime_mover_tab.html )
 (Bm)   (D)  (A)      (Bm) (D)  (A)       
 Alternating currents in a tidewater surge

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 (Bm)    (D)  (A)    (Bm)  (D)  (A)   
 Rational resistance to an unwise urge

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 G 
 
 (G)                
 Anything can happen
 
 Verses: (Guitars are Nashville-tuned w/4 bottom strings up 1 octave)
 
 (D)               (G)        
 >From the point of conception
 
 (Bm) (E) E:022100
 To the moment of truth
 
 (D)              (G)     
 At the point of surrender
 
 (Bm)             (A)  
 to the burden of proof
 
 w/Rhy.Fig.1 (3x)
 >From the point of ignition
 
              (E)  
 to the final drive
 
 w/Rhy.Fig.1 (3x)
 The point of the journey
 
           (A)   
 is not to arrive
 
 (G)                
 Anything can happen
 
 Guitar Tacet until "Alternating Currents..."
 
 I set the wheels in motion....

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 (C#m) (E5) (B) E5: x799xx
 I set the clouds in motion
 
 (C#m)     (E5)    (B)  
 Turn up light and sound
 
 (C#m)     (E5)     (B) 
 Activate the window
 
     (A)                      
 and watch the world go 'round
 
 Palm Mute: (2x) 1. 2.

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 Depress Tremolo bar before
 striking note
 Outro chords:
 
 D    A G               
 D/F# G E A D/F#: 20023x