Whiter Shade Of Pale Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 Ver 4 
	

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Song: Whiter Shade of Pale
Artist: Procol Harum
Tabbed by: nojustno@hotmail.com


Standard tuning

I like to finger pick this song, but strumming sounds pretty good too but rhythm and picking 
patterns will 
up to you, they?re really not too hard

It is basically this pattern throughout the entire song (be sure to emphasize the bass 
notes for a sound 
to the original):

|----0------0----0-----0------1-----1----1----1------3-----3------0------0------0-------1-----3-------1-----3--|
|----1------1----1-----1------1-----1----1----1------0-----0------0------0------1-------1-----0-------1-----0--|
|----0------0----2-----2------2-----2----2----2------0-----0------0------0------0-------2-----0-------2-----0--|
|----2------2----2-----2------3-----2----0----0------0-----0------2------2------2-------3-----0-------3-----0--|
|----3------2----0-----0----------------------3------2-----2------2------2------3-------------2-------------2--|
|-----------------------3----------------------------3-----1------0------3--------------------3-------------3--|


The synthesizer part goes like this:


|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10-------------|
|---------------------------------------------10----12--13------------------12---13---------12p10h12--|
|---9---9------------------------9--------------------------10p9h10-----------------------------------|
|------------12---10--9--10--12------10----------------------------------12---------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------10--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---10--9--10--10--9--------------------12---10--9--10-----9----------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------12----10---------------------12------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Lyrics:

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda sea-sick
But the crowed called out for more
The room was pounding harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought the tray

Chorus:
And so it was the later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason
When the truth is plain to see
That I?ll wander through my playing cards
Would not let her be
One of 16 vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
The might just as well?ve been closed


Chorus

That?s everything, it?s pretty simple but if you have any questions or comments, please 
e-mail me at nojustno@hotmail.com

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Hey Retard Wanna Be	#1 by Hey Retard at Sep 28, 2007 at 6:06 PM EST
	The lyrics contributed by Pablo (05-18-2004) listed under "Whiter Shade of Pale" instead of "A Whiter Shade.." are much better, but still not 100%. At least the mistranslated phrases are interesting. I'm guessing Psycho pr's version is either a revision by a different artist or some kind of a bad joke.

No Picture Luke Professional	#2 by Luke Goudreault at Sep 29, 2007 at 11:07 AM EST
	I like pale. White is pretty.

No Picture Derek Average	#3 by Derek Lamberty at Oct 1, 2007 at 1:48 PM EST
	Every song can't be about drugs! I don't know exactly what it's "about", but the line "whiter shade of pale" is somehow very sad. Like something that was already ruined just went even further down the drain. This song makes me pretty sad in general. sniff

No Picture Fat Man Goz Lead Player	#4 by Fat Man Goz at Oct 3, 2007 at 4:01 AM EST
	does anyone know the meaning of the song? i heard all kinds of interesting theories about it, and unfortunantly forgot them all... strange that no one here mentioned them.

No Picture James Rhythm Player	#5 by James T.H. at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:55 AM EST
	oh and 'skipped the light fandango' is surely a play on 'tripped the light fantastic'

No Picture btotherizzad Average	#6 by btotherizzad moriznad at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:36 PM EST
	Mr the fish is close to the truth - lead singer had same tale to tell - the miller told a tale?

No Picture keith Wanna Be	#7 by keith mckinlay at Oct 4, 2007 at 9:24 PM EST
	yeah, kinda funny how you said that the line whiter shade of pale made you sniffle. it is about cocain, at least the whiter shade of pale part is.

No Picture silent Rhythm Player	#8 by silent support at Oct 8, 2007 at 7:27 PM EST
	2nd best song ever

No Picture Jesse Wanna Be	#9 by Jesse Seibel at Oct 9, 2007 at 1:06 PM EST
	I heard somewhere that this beautiful song is simply picking on the apparent nonsense of psychedelic lyrics by guys like Lennon and Barrett...but it has to mean something. It's too beautiful not to. I was hoping somebody knew.

No Picture bethan Average	#10 by bethan jones at Oct 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM EST
	Well, even though those contributed lyrics are utter crap, my first thought of this song was Titanic, and how a survivor tells a tale to a girl and she gets shocked and her face just ghostly turns into a whiter shade of pale. Probably wrong, but it's what this song means to me.

No Picture chris Wanna Be	#11 by chris valverde at Oct 15, 2007 at 7:04 AM EST
	YES Alice , i think so too ...and 17 is a wonderfull age for knowing...and Love is the Sign