Artist: Del Amitri
Song: Drivin' With the Breaks On
Album: Hatful of Rain
Transcribed by: preston
Email: crazym0f0@satx.rr.com
I noticed that Taborama doesn't have any Del Amitri songs tabbed out here, so i decided I'd write this one. This has to be one of my favorite songs of all time.
On your C and Am chords, you're going to have to hammer-on and pull-off with your first finger on the B string. Listen to the song to see what I'm talking about. Easy rythem.
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Capo: 3rd Fret (All chords relative to Capo)
If you're lazy, here are the correct fingerings...
C Am F G
e|-3---3---4---6
B|-4---4---4---3
G|-3---5---5---3
D|-5---5---6---3
A|-6---3---6---5
E|-3---3---4---6
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Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone
Intro: C
C
Driving through the long night
Am
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
C C
Now the kid has gone. I sit belted up tight.
Am C
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.
F G
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks
C Am F
And said come on, let's go home. But she's got the wheel.
G C
And I've got nothing except what I have on.
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/d/del-amitri/38023.html ]
C
When you're driving with the brakes on.
Am
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
F G
It's hard to say you love someone
C
And it's hard to say you don't.
C
Trying to keep the mood right,
Am
trying to steer the conversation from
C C
The thing we've done. She shuts up the ashtray
Am C
and I say "it's a long way back now, hun." And she just yawns.
F G
And we might get lost someplace so desolate that
C Am F
no one where we're from would ever come. But she's got the wheel.
G C
And I've got to deal from now on.
C
When you're driving with the brakes on.
Am
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
F G
It's hard to say you love someone
C
And it's hard to say you don't.Elec. Gtr./Dist. Tone
C Am F
But unless the moon falls tonight,
Am F C
unless continents collide.
Am F G
Nothing's gonna make me
Am F G
break from her side.Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone
C
When you're driving with the brakes on.
Am
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
F G
It's hard to say you love someone
Am F G
And it's hard to say you don't.
F G
It's hard to say you love someone
Am C <--- Strum once(End.)
And it's hard to say you don't.
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