My god — Jethro Tull

From [email protected] Sun Jul 17 09:32:58 EDT 1994 Article: 27416 of alt.guitar.tab Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca alt.guitar.tab:27416 Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!torn!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!udecc.engr.udayton.edu!rbrockma From: [email protected] (Robert A Brockman (F)) Subject: TAB: My God (Jethro Tull) Organization: Univ. of Dayton, School of Engineering Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 04:23:41 GMT Message-ID: <[email protected]> Lines: 182

MY GOD Jethro Tull From: Aqualung, 1971

[email protected] (Bob Brockman) Corrections welcome (please email) - Thanks.

Notes: 1. On the Aqualung album, a lot of the guitar is covered over by the strong piano parts. I gleaned most of the guitar background from a bootleg recording on which this cut consists pretty much of Ian Anderson and acoustic guitar. Might be a little different from what's played on the album.

2. My naming of a couple of the more bizarre chords might be off; if my ignorance is showing, someone let me know (gently) where I'm all wet.

3. The lyrics below are different in 2-3 places from the ones printed in the album liner notes; this happens in spots where I'm pretty sure the liner notes are off.

let ring | repeat several times, at increasing tempo

E|----------------|----------------| Repeat to this point 2x finger pick in let ring this position for a while...

let ring

Verse

Part 1: This part can either be strummed (muting both E and e) or finger-picked. The Aqualung album version seems to be mostly strumming, but it's almost overpowered by the piano part once that starts. On the bootleg, Anderson finger-picks it, and it sounds really nice. If you do finger-pick it, throwing in a little of the high 'e' string sounds good -- play with it and see.

Am B7addE/A DmaddE/A E7/A Am E|--0-------------------------4-----0-----| Repeated twice as intro, B|-10--0------------6---------5----10-----| before piano line begins. G|--9--8------------7---------4-----9-----| Then repeated throughout D|-10--7------------7---------0----10-----| first part of each verse. A|--0--0--------0---0---------0-----0-----| See below for timing.

Here's how it lines up with the lyrics:

People, what have you done Locked Him in His golden cage Made Him bend to your religion Him resurrected from the grave

Part 2: Chords, all strummed:

He is the God of nothing, If that's all that you can see You are the God of everything, C G D CaddD D ( CaddD = X He's inside you and me.

Verse

So lean upon Him gently And don't call on him to save

Riff #1 E|--------------------------| This riff replaces the Am - B7addE/A etc. B|--------------------------| chord progression for the remainder of G|--------------------------| the verse. There are a couple of minor D|--------------------------| variations here and there, very simple. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ <-- rough idea of timing: 6/8, ^ = 1/8

you from your social graces, and the sins you used to waive.

The bloody Church of England, in chains of history, requests your earthly presence at the vicarage for tea.

Solo section: (sorry for the lack of detail here, but I'm pretty lame at picking out solos note for note)

Lead-in to flute solo:

Chord progression is: Am E D C G (2x)

Solo riff here is blues scale rooted at fret 5 through Am-E-D, then up to fret 8 at the change to C, etc.

Flute solo:

Background chord progression is: A E D/F# G

Gregorian chant section:

(No instrumental part here.)

Next, repeat same chord pattern used during flute solo: A E D/F# G Then return to: Am B7 Dm E to lead in to verse 3

Verse

(Same as Verse 2; start quietly, then switch to Riff #1 on "crucifix"):

And the graven image you-know-who, with His plastic crucifix, Confuses me as to who and where and why, and to how He gets His kicks.

Confessing to the endless sin, the endless whining sounds. You'll be praying 'til next Thursday, to all the Gods that you can count.

Repeat lead-in section to flute solo (same chord pattern, different solo)

End with:

[email protected] Robert A. Brockman, Univ. of Dayton [email protected] 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469