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Band: Pink Floyd
Song: Fletcher Memorial Home (guitar solo)
Tabbed by Chris Pickering.
Hi, this is my firt attempt at tabbing something out ...it sounds fairly
accurate - but if anyone can improve it, please let me know at:
outta_my_mind_71@hotmail.com
2:16
(Art Harm)
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-12-14b--------14brp12---------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------14(s)-----7b-7b--x--------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------15----------------------------------------------|
B|----------15p12-15b-15b----15b-------------------------------------------|
G|-12-14b------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------x------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
very wide vibrato for this bit:
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--7s9~~~~~~~------------7--9~~---------7h9p7-----------------x/-x-------|
A|-9--------------------9---9----------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-12--14--14b--r~~~--12-----------12-h14--14b--r~~~--12-------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------12-15-12-------------------------------------------------------|
G|-14-12-14---------------14b--r~~~--12------------------9brb--------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
I believe there is a second guitar playing on the b string on the bit I've
marked with the *s (B|-15b-r~~~-12- perhaps??) harmonised with the phrase
I've tabbed.
Anyway, that should get you started - have fun.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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foster Average |
#1 by foster meng at Mar 23, 1970 at 11:23 AM EST |
| As someone mentioned before The FLETCHER Memorial Home is named after Waters' father, Eric FLETCHER Waters. since the rest is sort of self-explanitory, I'll do over the second verse: Ronald Reagan: President of US 1980-1988 Alexander Haig: Secretary of State with Reagan Menachem Begin: Prime Minister of Isreal 1977-1983 Margaret Thatcher:Prime Minister of UK 1979-1990 Ian Paisley: European Parliament Member 1979-now Leonid Brezhnev:Communist Leader Russia '64-'82 Joe McCarthy:Senator of Wisconsin 1947-1957 Richard Nixon:President of US 1968-1974 Reagan: Although he did nothing really bad to Britain, he was conservative, which Waters didn't like. Haig: See Reagan Begin: He ruled the middle east in Isreal, and led the war against his enemies, taking Beruit in Iran. Margaret Thatcher: Conservative. Quite conservative Ian Paisley: Religious fanatic, as well as a conservative. Calling Pope John Paul II the antichrist mainly for being Catholic. Brezhnev:He's a strong Communist. McCarthy:Led the war against Communism, accusing people of being communist when they weren't and wanted all of them jailed. Nixon: One word: WATERGATE. | |
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Jeff Average |
#2 by Jeff Berg at May 3, 1974 at 7:15 AM EST |
| I personally think the Fletcher Memorial Home has two different meanings. Roger Waters' father's name was Fletcher, as noted earlier, and it is about the people who sent this man to war. However, it is also a personal reflection of Pink, as Pink is Roger Waters and he is reflecting how his father participated in such events against his will. It's like a personal thought a few years after The Wall, I think. I dunno, I might be reading too much into it. | |
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Jordan Wanna Be |
#3 by Jordan Ivory-Marcotte at Jul 1, 1974 at 6:15 AM EST |
| Thanks, TheKeeper, that works. | |
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josh Rhythm Player |
#4 by josh groocock at Oct 20, 1975 at 5:56 PM EST |
| their talking abEugine Mcarthy not paul. Braindamage was right about how Mcarthy and hatred since Eugine Mcarthy is known for his extreme hatred of communists he wantewd the ones in the U.S. incarcerated, the "overgrown infants" are whats being hated in this song. the song could also be talking about hitlers death or concentration camps. with the killing, wasting life and limb, and the final solution Hitler is really showing up here. Overall it talks about hatred in general from Communists to Jews | |
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brad Rhythm Player |
#5 by brad music at Aug 17, 1978 at 5:08 PM EST |
| thekeeper has it pretty much right. and just because hitler or stalin arent referred to directly in the lyrics doesn't mean they wouldn't be incarcerated in waters hypothetical "home for colonial wasters of life and limb". @inpraiseofolly - the last line is a deeply ironic twist - the applying of the final solution to the real problem... but obviously rog is a deeply humanitarian guy. and this is just a song. he's not genuinely suggesting that ANYONE should have the horror of the holocaust inflicted upon them. but incarcerated and the key thrown away? - yes. | |
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Fatty [eats chi Average |
#6 by Fatty [eats children] kid at May 24, 1981 at 3:11 PM EST |
| The same Joe McCarthy, Nixon are mentioned in the Billy Joel song "We didnt start the fire"! This guys is the reason the term "McCarthyism" exists. For more of this guy, see the link: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Joe+McCarthy | |
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Rene Average |
#7 by Rene Salojärvi at Oct 31, 1982 at 9:48 PM EST |
| No one seems to have noticed that the lyrics are wrong. "they can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead" Now read it this way: "they can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles, and ABUSE themselves playing games for a while boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead" It makes the song so much more powerful. Just think about it. Roger Waters sure knows how to write lyrics. The best song on The Final Cut. | |
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marvin Lead Player |
#8 by marvin at Jan 5, 1983 at 9:07 AM EST |
| It may be a deeply ironic twist, but it still is mildly offensive (but I can and do tak e worse, so I'll let it be). | |
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ScumFucBondage Average |
#9 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at Nov 27, 1987 at 9:11 AM EST |
| This does seem to be about the post-war political figures. I think the "final solution" is just what the political figures are doing to the soldiers they are sending off to war. Giving them death and despair. This is such a beautiful song... I'm always left speechless afterwards. | |
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niles Wanna Be |
#10 by niles lewis at Jun 16, 1990 at 6:15 AM EST |
| After listening to this song many more times, and liking it more and more each time (now at Pink Floyd's #10 overall song on my list), I am still disturbed by the last line, about the final solution. As a Jew, I absolutely object to any sort of trivializing of the Holocaust. I doubt Roger Waters would do that, so I am still trying to figure out the last line. I have read the various proposals on this page, but I don't particularly care for them, as this song is about post-WWII political figures (which is why Hitler isn't included), and therefore locking them up has no bearing on WWII/the final solution. If anyone would care to give a good explanation for this song, it would be much appreciated. | |
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patrick Average |
#11 by patrick chamberland at Jun 3, 1993 at 12:45 AM EST |
| This song use to irritate me but thats cos i hadnt listened to the words properly...its flippin fantastic - clever, poignant, heart-rending, - incidently only got REALLY into Pink Floyd about 2 months ago when i saw Australian Pink Floyd in concert - GO SEE THEM!! | |
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Dominic Badass |
#12 by Dominic Smith at Nov 15, 1996 at 8:16 PM EST |
| toxic lemon... shut up please | |
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Shreder Dude Wanna Be |
#13 by Shreder Dude at Feb 8, 1999 at 7:00 AM EST |
| Personally I think Hitler wasn't included because he, even now, exsits as more a mythological figure, than an actual one. Roger wanted to equate these other more familiar figures to senile of folks in a home, and it would have disrupted the vibe of the song if someone as potently evil as Hitler was included in the song. | |
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Jason Rhythm Player |
#14 by Jason ...... at Aug 1, 1999 at 12:38 AM EST |
| I too have been wondering about that final refrain: "Is everyone in?" And "Now the Final Solution [caps?] can be applied." I really don't imagine that Roger Waters would intentionally trivialise the Holocaust, no. But I do not know whether he is suggesting that the Nazis' Final Solution be carried out ironically within the Fletcher Memorial home on the likes of Hitler – advocating the extermination of these "incurable tyrants" and "colonial wasters", which would be an expression of support for the death penalty (albeit in what Waters sees as extreme circumstances, they being beyond redemption). Or whether he is instead appropriating the Nazi's phrase for something else (in the way the 'suffragettes' empowered themselves by taking on this label applied to them by a sneering right-wing press; or the way gay people have adopted words that once demeaned them) – specifically using the phrase to mean some great work to repair the world that can only be undertaken once we've rid ourselves of these hideous people by locking them all up. I assumed the latter originally, the home being (patronisingly) comfortable – I thought that Waters meant let's lock them all away and then we can get on with sorting out the mess. Now I'm older and more cynical, I wonder if he didn't actually mean the former – lure them into the home then, when we've got them all, do unto them what the worst of them intended for the innocents. Either way, it's a powerful song on a great album. | |
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nick Wanna Be |
#15 by nick at Sep 3, 2002 at 4:49 PM EST |
| I always thought the "ghost of mccarthy' was of Paul Mccarthy, like the "paul is dead" stuff. But i now realize it's senotor Joe McCarthy, a political figure. | |
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Adrian Lead Player |
#16 by Adrian Ortega at Nov 25, 2003 at 4:09 PM EST |
| I believe that it is about all the cruel rulers of the world. Minus Hitler. They are saying "take these people and put them in the Fletcher Memorial Home where they will be treated like they treated others." All these cruel leaders are referred to as "overgrown infants" because really they haven't mature much. They are "incurable tyrants and kings". They'd have a tv showing themselves and what they did repeated over and over and they'd not be able to know anything else. "Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?" says how these leaders treated people badly and wonders how they could expect any respect after that. It shows how saying "boom boom bang bang lie down you're dead" is just a game to them and killing people is nothing. Eventually at the end it says "now the final solution can be applied" which means that now that they're here and happy and what not, we can use the final solution (Hitler's idea) on them just like they did to others. | |
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Dan Average |
#17 by Dan Johnson at Aug 3, 2006 at 11:43 AM EST |
| I want to know what Latin American meat packing glitterarti means | |
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