This file contains a transcription that is not my own work; it was contributed by Brett M.
T-rev
Group: Caedmon's Call
Album: "Just Don't Want Coffee"
Song Title: "April Showers"
By: Aaron Tate (Intimate Portrait erroneously credits Cliff)
More tab available at http://www.t-rev.net
This is probably the simplest song that Caedmon's Call plays, but it sounds
great! Both Derek and Cliff play, though both the same part. In concert, Cliff
plays a straight chord progression, while Derek is doing the fancy hammer-ons
and such you hear, as well as the solo. This song, btw, is in G. Anyway, here
it is:
Clean Guitar
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Intro:
--2--2--2h3--2--2h3--3--3----------------2--2--2h3--2--2h3--3--3--------------
--3------------------3--3----------------3------------------3--3--------------
--2------------------0--0---------0------2------------------0--0--------------
--0------------------2--2--0h2p0---------0------------------2--0--0h2p0-------
---------------------3--3-----------------------------------3--2---------0----
---------------------------------------------------------------3--------------
(Play twice)
Verse 1:
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D Cadd9 D Cadd9 G
Like April Showers on the slick cement
D Cadd9 D Cadd9 G
When I consider how our light is spent
D Cadd9 D Cadd9 G
Keeping the candles inside the cathedral
D Cadd9 D
Hold on tight, Don't go into the night
Cadd9 G
So full of evil
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G D
Chorus:
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G D
Rain rain don't go away
Cadd9 Cadd9
We need you this dry and dusty day
G D
Rain rain don't go away
Cadd9 Cadd9
Though some may say please go away
Solo:
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-10-----------------------------------10--
-10-----------------13-12---------10------
-11-11-11h12-11-11---------12-12----------
-12---------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
--10-12-12h14-14h15-14--12--------------------
----------------------------12-12-12p10-------
----------------------------12-12-12p11-11----
-------------------------------------------12-
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
------------------------- ---0----3--3-
-7-7--------------------- -3---3--3--3-
-7-7--7---7-------------- --------0--0- Back into Verse...
------7h9-7--5-4\2-0h2-0- --------0--0-
------------------------- --------2--2-
------------------------- --------3--3-
I tried to break it up into sections where you can hear a "pause". listen to
the cd, you'll see what i mean.
NOTE on Solo: 2 things about this. 1st, it is my interpretation, so the
fingerings might be different than Derek's, but it sounds the exact same, i
checked several times.
2nd, i play solo guitar, so i have added come chord inversions where usually
cliff would play, to fill it out. so sometimes there is _more_ here than on
the CD. as always, mail me if you are lost.
Verse 2: (Same as Verse 1)
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Like the April Showers on the slick cement
And the roads once straight have now become so bent
Weaving through the trees of vain security
Rounding round the hard rocks of hard morality
Cadd9 G D (This time the Cadd9 G after verse is played only once)
Chorus (See above)
(Intro Lick is played ONCE)
Bridge:
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Em Am7
And the sacred cows
Em Am7
Feed on the green
Em Am7
While the least of these
Em D Barre-D (10th fret)
Are dying on the streets
And they're crying...
Chorus
Chorus
Outro:
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Pick through D-Cadd9-G slowly (ritard)
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Chord Signatures:
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E|-3---3---2----0-----0------10---
B|-3---3---3----0-----1------10---
G|-0---0---2----0-----0------11---
D|-0---2---0----2-----2------12---
A|-2---3---x----2-----0------12---
e|-3---x---x----0-----x------10---
G Cadd9 D Em Am7 Barre-D (10th fret)
Brett
bdm@falcon.cy-net.net
Lyrics printed by permission of Derek Webb and Aaron Tate.
Written by Aaron Tate. (1994, Cumbee Road Music).
All rights reserved.
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