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Song title:      Wakin' On A Pretty Day
Original Album:  Wakin' On A Pretty Daze (Kurt Vile)

Words and Music by Kurt Vile
Copyright © 2013 Matador Records
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Tuning is Low Tune (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) if you want to play along with the
record. Chords and tab are named as for standard tuning. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
G    35540x and 355433

[play: | C/G | F | G | F |]  [x2]

[play: | C/G | F | Am | F |]

[play: | C/G | F | G | F |]


VERSE:
Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
G    355433

C/G                   F          G                        F
Wakin' in the dawn of day, I get think about what I wanna say
C/G                   F                 G                    F
Phone ringin' off the shelf, I guess he wanted to care of himself 


CHORUS:
Notes:
For the last C and Am chords, play the alternative voicings and hammer-on
with the pinkie for the Am.

Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
Am   x02210 and 577555
Dm   xx0231
C    x35553 and 8 10 10 988
G    x55430

C/G                F    Am                           F
Wakin' on a pretty day,    don't know why I ever go away

Dm   F    C    G
It's hard to explain 

Dm F       C     Am
My love in these days


[play: | C | F | G | F |]  [x2]


VERSE:
Chords:
C 332010    G  35540x
F x33210    Am x02210

C/G                          F
You can say I been most all around
           G               F
But honey, I ain't goin' nowhere


CHORUS:
Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
Am   x02210 and 577555
Dm   xx0231
C    x35553
G    355433

C/G                 F                Am
Don't worry 'bout a thing, it's only dyin'
  C/G                   F     Am                      F
I live along a straight line, nothing always comes to mind

Dm    F      C   G
To be frank, I'm fried
Dm  F C     Am   G
But I don't mind

Dm   F     C    G
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
C         F
Yeah yeah yeah


[repeat the "yeah" lines]  [x4]


BRIDGE:
Notes:
The first Am on each line is played with a lead-in thus:

|------0--|
|------1--|
|------2--|
|------2--|
|--3-2-0--|
|---------|

Chords:
Am   x02210
Dm   xx0231
F    x33210

        Am          Dm   Am   F
Been diggin' layin' low, low, low
       Am          Dm   Am   F
I'm diggin' layin' low, low, low
         Am            Dm         Am     F
Dig, dig in - to these lives that we are livin'
       Am       Dm   Am    F
Livin' low lackadaisically so


[GUITAR SOLO over: | Am | Dm | Am | F |]  [x4]


[play: | C/G | F | G | F |]


VERSE:
Notes:
The following guitar figures are played at (1) and (2) respectively:

  (1)
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------5-----------0-----0-------------------------------|
|-------5h7---7-5-----5-----5-----0-----0------------0-----0--|
|--0--------------3-------3-----3-----5-----5b-----3-----3----|
|-----------------------------------3-----3------1-----1------|


  (2)
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------5-----------0-----0-------------------------------|
|-------5h7---7-5-----5-----5-----0-----0---------------------|
|--0--------------3-------3-----3-----5-----------------------|
|-----------------------------------3-------------------------|


Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
G    x55430     (Sometimes 35540x sometimes 355433)

C/G                    F
Risin' at the crack of dawn
        G                                                         (1)
I gotta think about what wisecracks I'm gonna drop along the way today

C/G                   F
Phone ringin' off the shelf
        G                                                     (2)
I guess somebody has something they really wanna prove to us today

G     C3   Am2   G
Yeah, yeah yee - aah


CHORUS:
Notes:
Play figures 1 and 2 here.
Chords:
C/G  332010
F    x33210
Am   x02210     (Sometimes lift 3rd string: x02010)
Dm   xx0231
C    x35553
G    355433

C/G                F   Am          F
Wakin' on a pretty day floating in place

Dm         F              C    G
No need in sayin' nothing to explain it

   Dm F              (1) and (2)
To my loved ones... today

Am   F     C    G
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
C         F
Yeah yeah yeah


[repeat the "yeah" lines]  [x4]


[play out GUITAR SOLO over VERSE chords and fade]