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Slainte Mhath Tab

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Date:     Fri, 17 Jun 94 15:32:14 MET DST
To: guitar@nevada.edu
Subject:  "Slainte_Mhath" by Marillion


                "Slainte Mhath" 

                 by Marillion

First, the piano:

        --#----------------------------------

        -------------------------------------           O = 1/4 note
                                                        o = 1/8 note
        -----------------------O-------------           

        -------------------------------------           (4 times)
                O        o              o  
        --------------o--------------o-------

                  ---      ---   ---      ---
                   o        o     o        o


Then, some chords:

        [D] [C]   [Am] [G]      (4 times)


Now, a guitar:

        e ----------------------------
        b -4-3-4---------4-3-4------6-
        g --------3-5-3---------3-5---  (repeat this forever and ever)
        d ----------------------------
        a ----------------------------
        e ----------------------------
chords:   [F]            [Eb]

Time for some singing:

        A [F] hand held over a [Eb] candle in angst fuelled bra[F]vado [Eb]
        A [F] carbon trail [Eb] scores a moist stretched [F] palm [Eb]

        (etc.)

        And you [C] listen with a [F] tear in [Bb] your eye
        to their [C] hopes and be[F]trayels and your [Bb] only reply
        is Slainte mhath.

The guitar-riff starts again, with the same chords:

        [F] Princes in exile [Eb] raising the standard Dram[F]buie [Eb]
        Pa[F]rading their anecdotes [Eb] tired from old cam[F]paigns [Eb]

        (etc.)

        Take it a[Ab]way
        Take it a[Bb]way
        Take it a[Csus4]way
        Take it a[Bbsus4]way, take it away
        Take it a[Csus7]way, take it away
        Take me a[C]way! [Bb] [F]
        [C] [Bb] [F]

        From the [C] dream on a the barbed wire 
                at Flanders and [Bb] Bilston [F] Glen
        From a [C] Clydeside that rusts
                from the tears of its [Bb] broken [F] men

        (etc.)

And that's all folks!


Stefan (pronounced: Stay-fun) Frank
slfrank@cs.vu.nl
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

(With thanks to Mark van 't Zet for the tab-notation)

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Slainte Mhath Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Jonathan Rhythm Player	#1 by Jonathan Matuszyk at Nov 25, 1992 at 11:03 AM EST
	Slainte Mhath means literally "Good Health" - slainte translates vaguely as health, "mhath" is the feminine form of "math" (pron."maa"). In Scots Gaelic, we aspirate to make an adjective feminine. Thus the name "Mairi" (Marie) is given extra feminine emphasis by aspiration - "Mhairi" (pron. "Varry"). It is a gaelic word, too, which is where Fish picked it up. Irish, gaelic (scottish), and welsh are all related languages. Pronounce "slainte mhath" as Fish does - "Slanzh'va", and utter it when someone buys you a drink! ---- taken from the Marillion faq ----- possibly my fav. song from "CAS".