The Rolling People

e: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:40:30 EST

"The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_

Written by The Verve

Produced by Youth/The Verve

tabbed by Jeremy Joseph ([email protected])

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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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