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PORT OF SOULS – Gun Club
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From the album ‘Mother Juno’
Tabbed by: Jay Rangdale
Email: jayrangdale@hotmail.co.uk
Tuning: Standard
Port of Souls is one of my favourite ‘late era’ Gun Club songs. It’s pretty
straightforward too! It’s easiest to play all the rhythm guitar using a standard e-
major shape barre-chord.
I’ve lifted the lyrics from Jeffrey-Lee’s autobiography ‘Go Tell the Mountain’.
Intro:
e|-0-0-0--0-0--0-0--------------------------------------------------------|
B|-0--0----0----0---------------------------------------------------------|
G|-1-----------------X2---------------------------------------------------|
D|-2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A E G E
Run Molly run, your hills are on fire
A E G E
Why don’t you go downtown, and get it on the wire?
Bridge: BB, F#F#, G#G#
A E G E
Now, easy street, can sure get you laid
A E G E
Doesn’t matter what you’ve done, and you get paid
EE, EE E B C#
In the Port of Souls
A E B C#C# B AAA
In the Port of Souls
Lead break over chorus:
Rhythm gtr: E E E A A A E E E C# A E
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------7—----------------7-----------------7—--------------------------|
D|----7-9---------------7-9---7-7-7-------7-9---------------7----------7--|
A|7-9-------7-7-7---7-9---------------7-9-------7-7-7---7-9---9-7-6------7|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------9----|
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/t/the-gun-club/210938.html ]
B C#A E B A
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------7---9-7---------------------------------------------------------|
A|7-7-6-----7-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------9-----------------------------------------------------------------|
The above fits over these lines:
EEE AAA
Too much ocean, too much sea
EEE C# A E
It is no wonder that you buried me
B C# A E B A (Hold ‘A’ into next verse)
But its alright
A E G E
Rose Connally don’t go in the field
A E G E
You might find something underneath, underneath what is real
Bridge: BB, F#F#, G#G#
A E G E
Now stop pulling an eyelash, only you that I have
A E G E
And it makes me so tired, and this could be the end
Repeat chorus
There’s a bunch of feedback and stuff for half a verse, then…
Last half-verse:
A E G E
Now don’t call John Henry, just kiss him goodbye
A E G E
It don’t matter anyway, so simply goodbye
Repeat chorus
Second part of chorus repeats several times with different lyrics:
1
I didn’t get lonely dear,
I didn’t have a chance to see, but its alright
2
You don’t have to say goodbye
No! no
But its alright
And different lead breaks:
Rhythm gtr: E E E A A A E E E
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|b10-10-8------------b10-10-8---8-10-10-10—-b10-10-8--------------7-10-7-|
G|---------9-7-9-9-9-----------9----------------------9-7-9-9-9--9--------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C# A E C# A E B A
e|------------------------7-----------------------------------------------|
B|------10-----------10-----10--------------------------------------------|
G|9-8-6----9-9-9-8-6----9-------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b = bend
Last time round he’s just throttling the life out of the b string on the 16th fret
with lots of bend!
There we are then! Enjoy!
Cheers
Jay
