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AS TEARS GO BY by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Andrew Oldham
This is my tribute to all the crazy people, who sit night upon
night and transcribe songs for all the stupid people like me,
who not be able to find the chords for all the great songs.
I added this transcription, because in this archive I did not find
a finger style to play the song. I think it's absolutely
scandalous ;-) to play the song without picking the notes.
I play this song without any septime chord. It sounds great too.
Each time I play the song, it sounds a little bit different, because
I finger with the chords around. It means, that I play all the notes that
available for the current chord. Sometimes I added a g-note on the e-string
to the D-chord [Dsus4], sometimes I played the e-note on the E-string instead of the
e-note on the D-string. Things I ever do is the bridge [Em]-[Em7]-[C] and the
finger style at the D-chord. This sounds great and if you heard it you won't miss it.
The finger style at the D-chord supports also the melody.
The chords in brackets are "only" interim chords, but it gives the song its own character.
Try to find your own style - it is allways the
better way to play a song in your own style than to make just a (bad) copy of it.
The chords are very simple: [G] [A] [C] [D]
Here is the stuff:
The intro is the same as the verse. Play it two times!
Repeat the following part two times (of course with the correct lyrics ;-))
It is the evening of the da-----------
G A C
||--------3-------3------|-----------0-----|---------0-----0---|
||-------------0-----0---|-------3-----3---|-------1---------1-|
||-----------0----------0|-----3---------3-|-0---0-------------|
||-----------------------|---3-------------|-----------0-2-----|
||-----------------------|-0---------------|---3---------------|
||-0-3-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
---------y
D [Dsus2] D
|--------2---0----2-----||
|------3------------3---||
|----2----------------2-||
|-0----------0---0------||
|-----------------------||
|-----------------------||
after second repeat switch to the following
smiling faces I can se-----e but not for me
C D [Dsus4]D G Em [Em7]
|------------0----|-------2--0---2----|------3---------|----0---------|
|---------1-----1-|-----3----------3--|----0---0-------|---0----------|
|------0----------|---2--------------2|--0-------0---0-|--0-----0---0-|
|-----------------|-0-----------------|------------0---|------2---0---|
|--3--------------|-------------------|----------------|-2------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|-3--------------|--------------|
I sit and watch as tears go by
C D [Dsus4]D[Dsus4]
|---------0-----------------0------0-|-------2---0---2----0---|
|-------1---1-------------1---1------|-----3----------------3-|
|-----0-------0---0-----0-------0----|---2--------------------|
|--------------2------------------2--|-0----------------------|
|-3-----------------3----------------|------------------------|
|------------------------------------|------------------------|
[G] [A] [C] [D]
[G] It is the [A] evening of the [C] day. [D]
[G] I sit and [A] watch the children [C] play. [D]
[C] Smiling faces [D] I can see, [G] but not for [Em] me.
[C] I sit and watch as tears [Em] go [D] by.
[G] My riches [A] can't buy every[C]thing. [D]
[G] I want to [A] hear the children [C] sing. [D]
[C] All I hear [D] is the sound [G] of rain falling [Em] on the ground.
[C] I sit and watch as tears [Em] go [D] by.
Solo (the same as the intro)
[G] It is the [A] evening of the [C] day. [D]
[G] I sit and [A] watch the children [C] play. [D]
[C] Doing things I [D] used to do [G] they think are [Em] new.
[C] I sit and watch as tears [Em] go [D] by.
[G] [A] [C] [D]
[G] [A] [C] [D]
Have fun
Thomas Bernard, Frankfurt/Main
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Aaron Average |
#1 by Aaron Smith at Nov 11, 1973 at 10:56 AM EST |
| robmille...there is a sadness experienced by some, over the loss of innocence, and the realization that old age, death and taxes are the only things that we can be sure of, for the remaining half-century of our lives - if we live out the average life span. As Neil Young also points out, "you can't be 20 on sugar mountain." | |
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James Wanna Be |
#2 by James Makowiecki at Jun 16, 1978 at 5:06 AM EST |
| Written for Marianne Faithful-not about her of course, but for her. She released it first. It is a nice little ballad I suppose. | |
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Joe Average |
#3 by Joe Blurton at Aug 15, 1985 at 5:25 PM EST |
| WHY has no one commented on this??? The meaning is pretty literal I think, but what a beautiful sad song! | |
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The MADMAN Average |
#4 by The MADMAN All the way at Sep 30, 1988 at 4:13 AM EST |
| if i were to list the stones tracks i know without having much time to think, this would be up there. i wouldnt say their 'hits' were overrated but songs like this dont get the appreciation they deserve | |
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Matt Lead Player |
#5 by Matt Beach at Nov 11, 1992 at 7:01 PM EST |
| So simple yet so elegant and true. The "evening of the day" is not literal.......this person telling the story is on in years of their life. "Smiling faces I can can see, but not for me" represents the attitude toward the aged and so forth. But the real clincher is "doing things I used to do, they think are new". this line says it all so simply. Chilhood innocence, once you havelost it you can never get it back. | |
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Andrea Average |
#6 by Andrea Lauria at Aug 16, 1994 at 12:48 PM EST |
| This was the first song Keith and Mick and wrote together. Their manager/producer Andrew Oldham locked them in a room together with a guitar and refused to let them out until they wrote soemthing. All the Stones were doing at the time were Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley numbers and Oldham new in order for them to have mass stardom, they would have to be a self-contained group and write their own songs. | |
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