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To Cry You A Song Tab

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To Cry You a Song- Jethro Tull
Tabbed by: Alex Torelli
Email:Alextorelli@optonline.net
Tuning:
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---3-2-3------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------5-4-5-----------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------5-4-5-----5-5-5--7-8---8-7-5-4-5-------------------|
E|------------------------6-------------------------------------------|
Repeat this intro 4 times then Verse:
e|-------------3----3---------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------3----3-----------------------------4-3-4-----------------|
G|-------------4----4-------------------------------------5-4-5---------|
D|-------------5----5---------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------5----5---------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------3----3---------------------------------------------------|
Flying So high,                  Try to Remember
e|-------------------1-------3----------------------------------------|
B|-------------------1-------5----------------------------------------|
G|-------------------2-------5------------3-4-3-----------------------|
D|-------------------3-------5------------------5-4-5-----------------|
A|-------------------3-------3------------------------5-4-5---5-------|
E|-------------------1-------0------------------------------6---------|
How Many cigarettes did I Bring Along?!
e|-----------------3---3------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------3---3--------------------------------4-3-4-----------|
G|-----------------4---4---------------------------------------5-4-5----|
D|-----------------5---5------------------------------------------------|
A -----------------5---5------------------------------------------------|
E -----------------3---3------------------------------------------------|
When I Get Down,                    I’ll jump in a taxi cab
e ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G -------------------------------3-4-3----------------------------------|
D -------------------------------------5-4-5----------------------------|
A -------------------------------------------5-4-5---5—-5-5-8—8-7-5-4-5-|
E -------------------------------------------------6--------------------|
Drivin’ through London town to cry you a song.
Repeat for all other verses.
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Dan Wanna Be	#1 by Dan DeSantis at Sep 29, 2007 at 9:59 PM EST
	Like the song, love the album. A real lost classic in the tull catalog. I was thinking the song was about drugs more than traveling. .."flying to high" etc. I know Ian Anderson was more of a boozer back then and I believe he was not involved with drugs at all. But that wouldn't necessarily stop him from writing about the subject that most of his listeners were knee deep in. "Closing my dreams, inside this paper bag" was always about sniffing glue. A truly degenerate way to get high. The guy in the song almost soinds like Aqualung a few years before he totally crashes out. 1

No Picture Tyler Average	#2 by Tyler Ruli at Oct 1, 2007 at 11:08 AM EST
	Definitely a song about traveling. "Flying so high....when I get down I jump in a taxi..." and he is on his way to cry us a song. It sounds like a song about touring, but then in the last verse we find out that he's just going home. "Rattling of safety chain" before his honey opens the door and smiles sweetly at him. Not a touring song....a going home song.

No Picture Jesus Professional	#3 by Jesus at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:12 AM EST
	I had the fortunate of interviewing Ian Anderson for more than an hour (about two years ago). He brought up this song and said that he was naive in using the line "Flying so high". He didn't mean for it to have a drug reference. He stated (quite seriously, without any sense of irony) that he has never smoked dope or used illegal drugs.