Violent Femmes - This Island Life

      
 
 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:24:23 -0500
 From: Bryson Meunier
 Subject: TAB:"This Island Life" by "Violent Femmes"
 
 "THIS ISLAND LIFE" by the Violent Femmes
 
 >From the album "NEW TIMES"(1994)
 Written by Gordon Gano
 Transcribed by Bryson Meunier
 
 Here's a pretty cool song off of "New Times." It should be right but
 if it's not(or if you just have additions, comments or questions) e-mail me
 at meunier.1@osu.edu
 
 intro(clean electric)-
 B5 (palm mute)

 E-----------------------------|
 B-----------------------------|
 G-----------------------------|
 D------------4--4--4--4-------| (strum quietly)
 A-----0---2--2--2--2--2-------|
 E-----------------------------|
 

 
 A lot of the verse just sounds like straight bass. The guitar
 pattern that I could decipher sounds like this:
 verse-
 "This tea is too strong for me..."

 E----------------------------------------------|
 B----------------------------------------------|
 G----------------------------------------------|
 D-----------------4---4---4\5---4----2----4----|
 A----0---2----2--------------------------------|
 E----------------------------------------------|
 

 
 
 repeat that a couple of times and then go into this:

 E-----------------------------------------------|
 B-----------------------------------------------|
 G-----------------------------------------------|
 D--------------9--9--9\10---9---7---9-----------|
 A----0--7--7------------------------------------|
 E-----------------------------------------------|
 

 
 The chorus is just an A chord followed by a B5
 "This Island Life..."
 A B5 
   

 E-----------------------------------------------|
 B----2------------------------------------------|
 G----2-----(strum)----------4-------------------|
 D----2----------------------4-------------------|
 A---------------------------2-------------------|
 E-----------------------------------------------|
 

 
 The overdub part of the solo sounds like this:

 E----------------------------------------------------|
 B--7~~~~~~~----8p7~~~~~~~------7p0-------------------|
 G-------------------------7h9---------------7--------|
 D--------------------------------------7h9------(9)--|
 A----------------------------------------------------|
 E----------------------------------------------------|
 E----------------------------------------------------|
 B--------------------------------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-|
 G---------------7-------8--------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-|
 D---------7h9-------9--------------------------------|
 A---7h9----------------------------------------------|
 E----------------------------------------------------|
 E--0--0--0-------9h10----7h9p7----5h7p5-------------|
 B--5--8--7--------------------------------7---------|
 G---------------------------------------------7---4-|
 D---------------------------------------------------|
 A---------------------------------------------------|
 E---------------------------------------------------|
 

 
 
 (electric sitar outro)