The Stranglers - Second Coming

      
 
 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                    C                
 Somewhere in Africa, somewhere in Rome
 D                   C                   
 People are sleeping awake in their homes
 D                        C                  
 Waiting for shepherds to tend to their sheep
 D                         C                     
 Their disappointments lay 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                         C                
 Turn on the sets and then wait for the show
 D                          C                 
 Will he have long hair and what will he know?
 D                          C              
 Will he tell jokes or will he make us cry?
 D                       C                    
 If we write to him will 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                C               
 Like everybody I wait for the day
 D                   C            
 Like everybody I'll send him away
 D                  C                
 He may be ugly and have problem hair
 D                    C                        
 Even speak funny and 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      C        
 Second coming...
 
 (repeat verse riff until fade)