Roy Orbison Knows Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

  A line of dots is used above chords,

E

G

  E E F♯ 3F♯)only G♯play sG♯trings 2, 3 & 4 (

B

  G &

  D) for ,,,,,

the end B: & A: chords with commas above: B: A:

Note: This file is in 80 column format. One line's chords extend beyond 80 col

so have been put on the next line (after the lyrics and a backslash character).

ROY ORBISON KNOWS (THE BEST MAN'S SONG)

  WEell your voice grips me tight lAike fingers C♯m F♯

A B

  E [bass run:

G♯ A A♯

  B]

  TB7akes hold of whatever's inside

  TEhough we try to harmonize with Adifferent singers C♯m F♯

...............

A B E

A

  WEhen weE're oEut ofF♯ tune F♯at leaG♯st we'G♯ll know we tried

  BAaby its a hopelesBs feeling

  LDeaves Mister Logic reeling

  IA love you I know, but whEat does that mean

  WC♯mhen the only place forward is whF♯ere we've just been

  IAts time to think twice, its Atime to decide

  E [

G♯ A A♯

  B]

  TB7urn and keep walking or be my bride

A

Asus4

  OAr be my bride, yeah,

  OEr be Esus4my bride E

E E7

A

  WC♯mell Roy OrbC♯mison, hCme knowBms thaF♯t I can't forget you

A B

  E [

G♯ A A♯

  B]

  WB7ell he told me last night at forty-five

E E7

A

  HC♯mope this hC♯monesty Cmdoesn'Bmt honeF♯stly upset you

.........

A B E

A

  HEe saiEd to F♯lie isG♯ deathA to love - I know it's still alive, yeh

  BAaby when the morningBs breakin'

  SDo many actresses 've already started fakin'

  IA love you I know, but its not suEch a big deal

  IC♯m'm gonna tape you this song onF♯ my reel to reel to reel

  IAts time to think twice, A7make up your mind

  E [

G♯ A A♯

  B]

  TB7ake me to the altar or leave me behind

  OAr leave me behind, Eyeah, Esus4or leave mEe behind

  WEell my memories, they liAe to me just because theC♯my want to C♯m Cm Bm F♯

  WAell like a runaway train, yBou know, I have noE controB7l

E E7 A C♯m C♯m

  ICm'm gonna tell 'em where you live so that they can go and haunt you \Bm F#

........

A B

E (

E7)

A

  AEnd takEe bacF♯k and Gtake Aback all the parts of me you stole

  BAut I no longer feel liBke crying,

  MDy nervous system's dying

  IA love you I know, but I'm aEnaesthetised

  IC♯m was foolishly hopeful, Cmnow I'F♯ve realised

A

  IA7t was time to think twice, you had to go

  IE hope that you blossom, I hC♯mope that you grow

A

  WA7rite me a postcard make it some little thing

  IEf you get married, I'll carrC♯my the ring

A

  IB7f you get married introduce me to him

A

Asus4

  IAntroduce me to him

,,,,,

E

A

B

A

  IEntroduce me to him

2. I'm pretty certain that the words are correct after initially being

unsure who "'ve already started fakin'" and about "Write me a postcard

make it .....", "I know it's still alive" and "Mister Logic". Whether

you sing "or be my bride" etc. or "woah be my bride" is entirely up to

you.

3. Don't worry too much about the specific chord fingerings for the most

part, nor that you have this uncontrollable urge to play an A7 of some

variety when "its time to decide" - Wes decided not too just for that

verse.

4. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)

or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd

like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,

"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and

"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do

them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out

the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded

so far are:

From "The Name Above The Title":

I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)

Save A Little Room For Me

The People's Drug

The Person You Are

Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by

Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks

from "It Happened One Night":

Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)

- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"

Kiss/Lovers' Society

and from "Here Comes The Groom"

The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett

and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of

When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again

These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its

mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by

using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new

maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid

archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find

the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar

Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

5. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also

uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:

/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal

Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)

which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be

a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

6. Enjoy!

Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC

"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"

- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"