Beautiful People Guitar Tab

When I Woke Tabs:

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Title:  "Beautiful People" .
music by Rusted Root
Words by Mike Glabicki,

*originally submitted by Matt Ittigson ittigson@pps.pgh.pa.us
and Matthew Tanzer

(for intro finger pick chords, add occasioal suspended fourths on D, A,
and G)

*the following tab was submitted
Thursday, December 11, 1997
by Rich Jarvis   RichJ035@AOL.com

  ^ indicates strings played with index finger

    D                    A
----------2--------------------2---------|
--------3---3----------------2---2-------|
------2---------2----------2---------2---|
----0---------0----------2---------2-----|
-----------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------|
          ^ ^                  ^ ^
    Come and here the    funeral marching

    C                    G
----------0--------------------3---------|
------------1--------------------0-------|
--------0-------0------------0-------0---|
------2-------2------------0-------0-----|
----3------------------------------------|
-------------------------3---------------|
          ^ ^                  ^ ^
    Maybe this is your   suicide

D                  A
Maybe this is more pure
C                 G
Pure than simple, maybe this is all I have

D         A
For home, woh woh, daddy yeah
C     G
Daddy yeah
D       A       C       G
Oooh (held)

Same chords for the rest of the song.

Chorus:
Why have all the beautiful people
Brushed you on down
Brushed you on down
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh daddy yeah (daddy yeah)

Brush them daddy yeah (ooo daddy yeah)
Brush them daddy yeah (ooo daddy yeah)

I saw the shame inside your addiction
Waiting to see what was passsed on by
I saw the shame and wondered why
I should live, and die

Leave a note and tell me
Leave a note and tell me why
Leave a note and tell me
You leave a note and tell me why

Chorus:
Why have all the beautiful people
Brushed you on down they've
Brushed you on down
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh, ooo daddy yeah (daddy yeah)

Repeat last line.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Luke Professional	#1 by Luke Goudreault at Aug 22, 1975 at 5:07 AM EST
	I listen to this song and relate it to a person who was involved on drugs (sorry!!). I can build a story about that: There were two friends; one of them (A) was addicted, a freshman. The other one (B) was more sober but could do anything his friend ask him for, just to share experiences and support him. He knows his friend is addicted to drugs but don’t tell anybody. Things go wild. One night, there’s a party, the “A” friend smokes MJ or whatever. His friend notices the situation and tries to take him home. The “A” friend insists on drive the car; “B” friend doesn’t want to but can’t stop his friend, so they both go home while “A” friend is driving. The “A” friend is overdosed (comma state), lose control and crash the car. The “A” friend dies, the other one lives but he feels guilty, because he could have stopped his friend not just from driving but drugs. Ok, I’m sorry for my grammar, I’m Spanish speaker =).

No Picture Gabe Professional	#2 by Gabe Hawkins at Jan 22, 1988 at 6:53 PM EST
	I also think this one could be about drugs. Here is my interpretation. 1st verse: I think using drugs is kinda committing suicide every time a person “flies” because some part of the body also dies. 2nd verse: “all your beautiful people” means to me people who just tell you what you want to hear, they’ll never be really concerned about your feelings, worries or thoughts. They’re not your friends. 3rd verse: About your story, DeWise, I think this verse fits it perfect: I’m trying to imagine me in a similar situation where I’m not brave enough to take this friend from his/her hell, and survive feeling guilty or so, “I saw the shame and wondered why I should live and die”. I’d feel I’m a “living death”. Leave a note and tell me why I survived. This song and “Blue Diamonds” are my fav.

No Picture Dale :D Average	#3 by Dale :D O' Mondo Of DOOM!!! at Aug 20, 1992 at 2:43 PM EST
	I can't believe there's only one comment on this. Wicked track.

No Picture IvZ Average	#4 by IvZ at Oct 17, 2000 at 10:09 PM EST
	i always loved this song and it always got me emotional, but i was hoping to read some comments on what it meant. I guess not a lot of people are familiar with Rusted Root.