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Song title:       Pillar To Post
Original Album:	  High Land, Hard Rain

Words and Music by Roddy Frame
Copyright © 1983 WEA Records Limited
Published by WEA Records Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Roddy likes his barré chords and some of these are played quite high up on an
electric. If you're playing acoustic, you may have to find alternative 
voicings for some of these chords or find an acoustic with a nice action.
However, if you want to "sound like the record", you'll need these barrés.

Guitar Figure 1 is used in the INTRO and the same riff modulates to B in the 
BRIDGE. The Eadd9 is played by adding the F# on the 1st str (2nd fret) 
with the pinkie!


Guitar Figure 1

   E and Eadd9                 Amaj7, F#m and E

|--0--2--0--2--0-0--2--0--2--|--4--2--0--2--4-4--2--0-0--2--|
|--0--0--0--0--0-0--0--0--0--|--2--2--0--2--2-2--2--0-0--2--|
|--1--1--1--1--1-1--1--1--1--|--2--2--1--2--2-2--2--1-1--2--|
|--2-----2-----2-2-----2-----|--2-----------2-2-------------|
|----------------------------|------------------------------|
|----------------------------|------------------------------|


   E and Eadd9                  E    F#     A      B

|--0--2--0--2--0-0--2--0--2--|--0----2-2----5-5----7-7------|
|--0--0--0--0--0-0--0--0--0--|--0----2-2----5-5----7-7------|
|--1--1--1--1--1-1--1--1--1--|--1----3-3----6-6----8-8------|
|--2-----2-----2-2-----2-----|--2----4-4----7-7----9-9------|
|----------------------------|--2----4-4----7-7----9-9------|
|----------------------------|------------------------------|



Guitar Figure 2

  Amaj7  A6  F#m7  Am6  Emaj7 Emaj7  A6  F#m7  Am6  Emaj7
|--4-----5----2-----5----4--|--4-----5----2-----5----7--|
|--5-----5----2-----5----4--|--4-----5----2-----5----9--|
|--6-----6----2-----5----4--|--4-----6----2-----5----8--|
|--7-----4----2-----4----2--|--2-----4----2-----4----9--|
|--x-----x----x-----x----x--|--x-----x----x-----x----7--|
|--x-----x----x-----x----x--|--x-----x----x-----x----x--|



INTRO:

[play Guitar Figure 1]


CHORUS (Intro only):
Chords:
E         x79997 or 022100
G#7       464544
C#m       X46654
Gdim      x4535x or XX2323
C7        X35353 or x32310
B7        X24242 or x21202

E                   G#
Once I was happy in happy extremes.
C#m          Gdim       C7           B7
These bitter tokens are worthless to me.


VERSE:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 2 is played on the Amaj7* at the end of the verse's last line.
(Or you could just play the Amaj7. ;) )

Chords:
Amaj7     xX6655 or x02120
B9        797879
B7        X24242 or x21202
Emaj7     X79897 or XX2444 or 021100
E7        X79797 or 020100

Amaj7               B9
  So you appear and say how I've grown,
Amaj7                 B9
  And fill me up with faces I've known.
Amaj7                   B9
  In this light they're far from divine,
Amaj7
  I've saved them up,
     B7              B9     Emaj7   E7   Amaj7*
I'll spend them when I have time.                     


VERSE:
Chords:
Emaj7     X79897 or XX2444 or 021100
Emaj13    X79879
Amaj7     xX6655 or x02120
G#7       464544
C#m       X46654
F#m       244222
G#m       466444
A         577655
B7        X24242 or x21202

Emaj7       Emaj13   Amaj7                   
 The salted taste of all your tears and woes,
Emaj7       Emaj13    Amaj7           
 Sent me in haste, my melancholy rose,
      G#7                 C#m   
Those tasteless lips were closed,
    F#m        G#m       A      B7 
You watched me come, now see me go.


CHORUS:
Chords:
E         X79997 or 022100
G#7       464544
C#m       X46654
Gdim      x4535x or XX2323
C7        X35353 or x32310
B7        X24242 or x21202

E                   G#7           
Once I was happy in happy extremes,
C#m        Gdim         C7          B7   
Packing my bags for the path of the free.
     E                   G#7             
From pillar to post I am driven, it seems.
C#m          Gdim       C7           B7
These bitter tokens are worthless to me.


VERSE:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 2 is played on the Amaj7 at the end of the verse's last line.
(Or you could just play the Amaj7. ;) )

Chords:
Amaj7     xX6655 or x02120
B9        797879
B7        X24242
Emaj7     X79897 or XX2444 or 021100
E7        X79797 or 020100

Amaj7                B9
 Just like June, the curtains are closed
Amaj7                   B9
 The ghost of shame, he sits here and sighs.
Amaj7                      B9
 I'll love the flames like I loved the cold,
Amaj7                   B7                             Emaj7     E7   Amaj7*
 I'll learn to love the life of the "Could I, could I, could I"


VERSE:
Chords:
Emaj7     X79897 or XX2444 or 021100
Emaj13    X79879
Amaj7     xX6655 or x02120
G#7       464544
C#m       X46654
F#m       244222
G#m       466444
A         577655
B7        X24242 or x21202

Emaj7       Emaj13   Amaj7
 So I won't cross my fingers any more
Emaj7           Emaj13
 You looked for rags, 
Amaj7
 And found them at your door,
    G#7               C#m
How could you ask for more   
     F#m   G#m          A     B7
Than every thing you've heard before?


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:

Modulated Guitar Figure 1 [play x2]

   B and Badd9                  C#add9, C#, B and Badd9 

|--7--9--7--9--7-7--9--7--9--|--11--9---7--9--11-11--9---7-7--9--|
|--7--7--7--7--7-7--7--7--7--|--9---9---7--7--9--9---9---7-7--7--|
|--8--8--8--8--8-8--8--8--8--|--10--10--8--8--10-10--10--8-8--8--|
|--9--9--9--9--9-9--9--9--9--|--11--11--9--9--11-11--11--9-9--9--|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------|



[repeat CHORUS twice]


[play following]:

  F#m  G#m   A     B7  E

|--2---4-4---5-5---7---0-------|
|--2---4-4---5-5---7---0-------|
|--2---4-4---6-6---8---1-------|
|--4---6-6---7-7---7---2-------|
|--4---6-6---7-7---9---2-------|
|--2---4-4---5-5---7---0-------|


[end]