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The White Stripes - Death Letter
This is a great song, I play it all the time.
I had a little help with this tab so i dont take full credit for it, but never the less, awesome
song.
These 4 Figs are done over the open A chord
Fig1 Fig2 Fig3 Fig4
Eb|--------|-------------|-------5-5-5|---------------------------|
Db|--------|-------------|---------0-0|---------------------------|
Ab|--------|-3b-0--3-3-3-|-3--0-------|---------------------------|
Eb|--------|-0-(0)-0-0-0-|-0-(0)------|---5-5---3-3---2-2---1-1---|
Ab|-0----0-|-------------|------------|---------------------------|
Eb|---3b---|-------------|------------|-5-----3-----2-----1-----0-|
Chords (play with slide)
A D E
Eb|-------------------------|
Db|-------------------------|
Ab|-0--------/5----------/7-|
Eb|-0--------/5----------/7-|
Ab|-0--------/5----------/7-|
Eb|-0--------/5----------/7-|
INTRO
Fig1 then Fig2 x4
VERSE
A (with Fig1 and Fig2)
I got a letter this morning, what do you reckon it read?
It said the girl you love is dead
D A (Fig3 Fig1 Fig3)
I got a letter this morning what do you reckon it read?
E D A (Fig3 Fig1 Fig3)
Said, Hurry hurry, because the gal you love is dead
Well I packed up my suitcase, took off down the road
When I got there she was, laying on the cooling board
Packed up my suitcase and I took off down the road
(Fig4)
When I got there she was laying on the cooling board
REPEAT VERSE WITH NO LYRICS (improvise with slide a bit)
REPEAT INTRO
It looked like ten thousand people standing around the burying ground
I didn't know I loved her, til they began to let her down
looked like ten thousand, people standing around the burying ground
I didn't know I loved her, til they began to let her down
You know it's so hard to love someone that don't love you
Don't look like satisfaction, don't care what you do
so hard to love someone that don't love you
Don't look like satisfaction, and I don't care what you do
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Nyle Average |
#1 by Nyle Leddy at Nov 10, 1970 at 6:39 PM EST |
| yes there is i love it!!! | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#2 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Jan 21, 1972 at 9:03 AM EST |
| yeah i love the guitar work on this song, its amazing, i wish i had the talent that jack white has | |
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albert Rhythm Player |
#3 by albert casualtie at Apr 13, 1975 at 6:12 AM EST |
| great 12 bar blues one of the white stripes best? i think so | |
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Ben Rhythm Player |
#4 by Ben at Oct 19, 1976 at 2:22 AM EST |
| By the way, this would make the sexiest stripper song. Especially the faster tempo, hair-waving guitar solo! Any strippers out there?! | |
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chris Wanna Be |
#5 by chris valverde at May 1, 1979 at 5:12 PM EST |
| i love blues.. the white stripes are pretty good at covering it. | |
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Andrew Wanna Be |
#6 by Andrew Long at Dec 31, 1979 at 1:19 AM EST |
| Ya gotta hear the original "Death Letter Blues" by the great Son House. Extremely cool. | |
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Luke Professional |
#7 by Luke Goudreault at May 1, 1981 at 2:06 PM EST |
| agreed | |
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Dr. Average |
#8 by Dr. Funkinstein at Sep 4, 1982 at 2:40 PM EST |
| "You know it's so hard to love Someone that don't love you " What a dam fine lyric! | |
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† james † Average |
#9 by † james † at Oct 7, 1988 at 8:06 AM EST |
| the live versions are the best, because he expands on the guitar solo, and they also throw in their own version of "Grinnin' in your Face", which is another Son House song, and apparantly Jack's favorite song of all-time and there is no video, Hotel Yorba was their first | |
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Joe Average |
#10 by Joe Montana at Jan 3, 1990 at 11:59 AM EST |
| I love this song for the sole reason that it helped me discover Son House. | |
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a Average |
#11 by a a at Oct 29, 1993 at 2:37 PM EST |
| Haven't heard it, but reading the lyrics just makes me want to cry my eyes out man! "You know it's so hard to love Someone that don't love you " Too tru | |
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` niki * Average |
#12 by ` niki * at Feb 14, 1994 at 11:53 AM EST |
| where can i see the video? | |
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Ryan Wanna Be |
#13 by Ryan Carter at Oct 30, 1995 at 5:40 PM EST |
| I just came to the realization that in the original Son House version, there's the line "I didn't feel so bad 'til the good old sun went down I didn't have a soul to throw my arms around" Jack White stuck it right in Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground instead! This might have been obvious to everyone, but not to me. | |
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Dan Average |
#14 by Dan Flores at Feb 3, 2007 at 10:59 AM EST |
| I heard them place this live once a little club, Majestics in Detroit right before the white stripes released white blood cells. It was really rocking. I think Son House would have liked it. | |
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