Accept Yourself Guitar Tab

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Band: The Smiths
Song: Accept Yourself
Album: Hatful of Hollow
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com

"Hatful of Hollow" version.  Capo on 3rd fret or tune up 3 semitones & translate the tabs. 
 All tabs marked "3" are open strings. Use your thumb for the notes on the low E string for 
chords marked with T's. 
  
Intro: 
     |--8--8--8--8--8-----------------| 
     |--8--8--10-11-10-8--8--8--6--6--| 
     |--9--9--9--9--9--8--8--8--7--7--| 
     |--10-10-10-10-10----------------| 
     |--------------------------------| 
     |--------------------------------| 

     |--8--8--8--8--8-----------3--3--| 
     |--8--11-10-8--8--8--8--8--6--6--| 
     |--9--9--9--9--10-8--8--8--7--7--| 
     |--10-10-10-10-10----------------| 
     |--------------------------------| 
     |--------------------------------| 
  
        Everyday,      You must say 
        C              Em 
     |--8--------3-----7--------------| 
     |--8-----------3--8-----------8--| 
     |--9-----9--------9--9-----------| 
     |--10-10----------9--------9-----| 
     |--10-------------7-----7--------| 
     |--------------------------------| 
  
                                      (2nd time 'round) 
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                                     | / 
        C7                            / 
     |--8-----------------3---8--8----3--3--3--8--8--8--| 
     |--11----------------4---6--6----4--4--4--6--6--6--| 
     |--9-----------9--3--5---7--7----5--5--5--7--7--7--| 
     |--8-----8-----------6---8--8----6--6--6--8--8--8--| 
     |--10-10----10-------6---x--x----6--6--6--x--x--x--| 
     |--8-----------------4---6--6----4--4--4--6--6--6--| 
                          T   T  T    T  T  T  T  T  T 

I am sick and I am dull and I am plain 
     |----------------3------------------3--------| 
     |-------5-----6-----3------3-----5----(3)----| 
     |----------5------------------5--------------| 
     |--(3)---------------------------------------| 
     |----------------------(3)-------------------| 
     |--------------------------------------------| 
  
     |----------------------------------------| 
     |-------3--------3-----5--5-----5--3-----| 
     |----------5--------5--5-----------------| 
     |--(7)--------7--------3-----3-----------| 
     |----------------------------------------| 
     |----------------------------------------| 

interlude: 
        C                    C 
     |--------------------------------------------| 
     |--------------------------------------------| 
     |--5--5-----------------5--5-----------------| 
     |--5--5-----------------5--5--5--------------| 
     |--3--3-----------5-----3--3--5--------5-----| 
     |--------6~~~--6-----6--------3--3--6--------| 
  
     |-----------------------------------| 
     |-----------------------------------| 
     |--5--5-----------------5--5--------| 
     |--5--5-----------------5--5--5-----| 
     |--3--3-----------5-----3--3--5-----| 
     |--------6~~~--6-----6--------3-----| 

 and there's no one but yourself to blame... 
     |-------3-------------------3-------| 
     |-------6-------------------6_sl_8--| 
     |-------5-------------------5_sl_7--| 
     |---(3)-3---------------------------| 
     |-----------------------------------| 
     |-----------------------------------| 

ending: 
     |--3--3--3--8--8--8--6--| 
     |--4--4--4--6--6--6--4--| 
     |--5--5--5--7--7--7--3--| 
     |--6--6--6--8--8--8--6--| 
     |--6--6--6--x--x--x--3--| 
     |--4--4--4--6--6--6--4--| 
        T  T  T  T  T  T  T

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture James Wanna Be	#1 by James Makowiecki at Feb 15, 1973 at 2:34 AM EST
	Morrissey's self-deprecation comes through again, here. But he is advising someone to accept themselves for some greater benefit.

No Picture Alexander Wanna Be	#2 by Alexander Taule at May 4, 1978 at 6:13 AM EST
	i love this song. again i can relate absolutely: Others conquered love - but I ran I sat in my room and I drew up a plan but plans can fall through as so often they do and time is against me now just reminds me of dreaming of a girls you wanted to see yourself with, but you were to shy to talk to them. you always made plans about it, but never took the opportunities because you were too shy. now you realize that you are getting older and more and more pressure gets applied on you...

No Picture dylan Average	#3 by dylan markus at Jun 2, 1978 at 6:51 AM EST
	It's not a positive self-acceptance, just a realistic kind. Just that if you are 'awkward and plain', don't aim to be interesting.

No Picture Jake Average	#4 by Jake Bounds at Apr 23, 1981 at 6:07 PM EST
	what a wonderful little song, great theme! i often sick and dull and plain...

No Picture Matt Rhythm Player	#5 by Matt at Oct 19, 1984 at 10:18 AM EST
	er...kilby, don't you find it strange how this song is telling people that they should accept themselves when at the same time this was written , morrissey was doing the exact opposite!?!?!

No Picture Terence Average	#6 by Terence Taylor at Jul 29, 1987 at 4:50 AM EST
	Love this song, his voice is quite heart-wrenching in parts in comparison to even the suppposedly sadder songs

No Picture TAMARA Musical Genius	#7 by TAMARA at May 13, 1988 at 8:26 AM EST
	anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes loveit

No Picture Kazza Average	#8 by Kazza at Apr 23, 1989 at 1:38 PM EST
	what a wonderful little song, great theme! i often sick and dull and plain...

No Picture kewl Wanna Be	#9 by kewl dude at Apr 20, 1995 at 11:33 PM EST
	I love this song very much. This site should be named SongComments.com or something.

No Picture Darren Wanna Be	#10 by Darren Pilton at Aug 19, 1995 at 9:13 AM EST
	This song means a lot to me... it gives me a range of different emotions. On one hand, it is a song about accepting yourself, just as the title suggests. But the story of the man that won't accept himself is more important. When he says "Who and what do blame?", it shows how people react to failure. Maybe not everyone asks themselves this question directly, but in a way they do. The next important statement is "Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes". Morrissey is telling us and him that the answer to his problems is right in front of him. He needs to simply accept himself and move on. The most impressive thing about this song is how Morrissey puts such grand issues so simply.

No Picture Batmanuel Badass	#11 by Batmanuel at Jan 8, 2000 at 10:46 AM EST
	hmm, just the tension between wanting to be somone else when you want someone to love you, or to keep on loving you and they don't (you think), and being yourself. Blaming yourself for what went wrong. I guess its realising that in fact the things you hope to achieve through being someone else will only come to you if you are yourself, and even if they dont you'll never get any happiness from trying to be someone else, your just living a lie. yet it happens every time and you cant seem to change yourself. "Others conquered love - but I ran I sat in my room and I drew up a plan" Tried to work out how he would get somone to love him, and stopped being himself. "And there's no one but yourself to blame anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes anything is hard to find for heaven's sake anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself?" Perhaps the message is not so much move on as simply that people like you for who you are, and when you start changing that they lose interest. Psossibly, dunno, I guess thats the things about his songs, you always put the issues back onto yourself, there kind of song about the thought processes involved, rather than particular experiences.

No Picture Brian Average	#12 by Brian Dempsey at Apr 22, 2002 at 2:38 PM EST
	Yes, but M. doesn't seem to have much hope that people will ever accept themselves.

No Picture Berenice Average	#13 by Berenice Issaris at Aug 6, 2002 at 6:36 PM EST
	This song makes me LOL.

No Picture Drake Average	#14 by Drake Bergman at Apr 24, 2004 at 2:03 AM EST
	This is a great song. It is about accepting yourself no matter how strange or dull you think you are. And sometimes time can be against you. Accept yourself for who you are.

No Picture spence Average	#15 by spence o'brien at Feb 15, 2006 at 8:05 AM EST
	"kilby, don't you find it strange how this song is telling people that they should accept themselves when at the same time this was written , morrissey was doing the exact opposite!?!?! " But that's exactly why he is saying it! Don't you feel that there are several songs where he is, in a way, talking to himself, telling himself what he should do? "Accept Yourself" is one, "Sheila Take A Bow" is another (though he is talking to a female version of himself there), and you can say the same about "Handsome Devil" ("there's more to life than books, you know") or "Ask". People who think that he is so negative should really listen to his songs and hear all the positive meeages. But, it is a sad fact that being aware of your own problems and knowing what you should do, is often not enough for you to actually do that!