The Verve - The Rolling People

      
 
 e: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:40:30 EST
 From: CheshirBat
 Subject: TAB: The Rolling People - by Verve
 
 "The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
 Written by The Verve
 Produced by Youth/The Verve
 
 tabbed by Jeremy Joseph (CheshirBat@aol.com)

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 Intro:
 A5 B5 (x4)
 
 The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
 wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
 Right after the last B5 chord:

 D|--------7---9-------------| with delay pedal
 A|---7/9--------------------|
 

 
 Then comes the riff:
 A B 
   

 E|---------------------------------|
 B|---------------------------------|
 G|--------------8------------9h7---| It's like this during the verses,
 D|----7----9---(9)--9--------9-----| with slight ad-lib variations.
 A|----7----9--------9--9--9--------|
 E|----5----7-----------7--7--------|
 

 
 It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
 since that's basically the key to sounding like them.
 
 * Verse 1 *
 (with riff)
 
 Been shot...
 
 I got one more life,
 Can you see it wastin' away?
 But I got a plan,
 Ahh..do you understand?
 
 (solo 1) - Played sort of distorted and bluesy

 E|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 B|----------------7-----------------|-------------------7----------------|
 G|-----------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7----|--------------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7---|
 D|-------7h9----------------------7-|--------7h8h9---------------------7-|
 A|---7h9----------------------------|--7h8h9-----------------------------|
 E|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 

 
 Play something like this in the B blues scale with
 delay on the upward run...
 
 * Verse 2 *
 (I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)
 
 With a drugstore life,
 I was dealin' soda then of the white... (?!)
 I don't shake no hands,
 Cause then there's no fans...
 
 *Chorus*
 
 B                                   
  But here we are, the Rolling People
 A                                G A G A B 
  Can't stay for long, we gotta go
 B                                       
  So come alive, we're the Rolling People
 A                              G A G A B 
  Don't ask why, we just know...
 
 * Verse 3 *
 
 On a big jet plane
 with my briefcase and crime in my veins
 I'll be the first to toast
 Yeah..to my rockin' soul, yeah.
 
 *Chorus*
 
 B                                   
  And here we are, the Rolling People
 A                               G A G A 
  Don't ask why, we don't know...
 B                                       
  So come alive, we're the Rolling People
 A                              G A G A B 
  Don't ask why, we just know...
 
 
 (solo 2) - Played very clean

 E|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
 B|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
 G|-------------7---------------------|----------7h4----------------|
 D|-----------------9---7h4-----------|--------------7h4------------|
 A|--------------------------7--5-----|---------------------7-------|
 E|--------------------------------7--|------------------------7----|
 E|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
 B|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
 G|-------------7-------------7-------|----------7h4----------------|
 D|-----------------9-----7h9---------|--------------7h4------------|
 A|--------------------7h9------------|---------------------7-------|
 E|-----------------------------------|------------------------7----|
 

 
 Play and repeat the 2nd line a few times..
 
 *And the rest of the lyrics*:
 
 Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
 plays echoey notes in the B scale.

 E|-----------------------------------|
 B|---10-10-10---9b(10)---7-----------|
 G|--------------------------9h7------|
 

 
 Tell me do you know which way I'm gonna choose..
 The lights are white and I am feelin' blue..
 I hope you know which way I'm gonna fly..
 Thank you for my life, I said good night, goodbye...
 
 Back to the riff, and the song gets out of control.
 
 The "eep" part at the end of the song:
 
 EEP, EEP eep, eep

 E|--11-------11-------|--7--------7--------|
 B|--14b(16)--14b(16)--|--10b(12)--10(12)---|
 G|--------------------|--------------------|
 

 
 Best of luck.. This song kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
 and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
 I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
 laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
 can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!

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