Up From The Skies
Words & Music:
Jimi Hendrix
You gotta love a tune that
has been recorded by Jimi Hendrix and Rickie Lee Jones on her jazz
standards album "Pop Pop".
To play like Hendrix, tune the guitar down a half-step & get out the
wah pedal. To emulate Rickie Lee
Jones, turn up the clean jazz tones & the Texas Swing on-beat strumming.
B9
F#7 B9
F#7
I just want to talk to
you. I won't, uh, do you no harm.
I just want to know about your
different lives,
B9 F#7
On this here people farm.
B9 C9
F#7
I-- heard some of you got your
families,
B9 C9 F#7
Living in cages tall &
cold.
And some just stay there and
dust away past the age of old.
CHORUS:
B9 C9 F#7 B9 C9
F#7
Is this true? Please let me talk to you.
C#9 D9 G#7 C#9 D9 G#7
I just wanna know about the
rooms behind your minds.
Do I see a vacuum there, or am
I going blind?
Or is it just remains from
vibrations and echoes long ago?
Things like "Love the
World" and "Let your fancy flow".
CHORUS:
C5 C#5
C5
B5
I have lived here before, the
days of ice.
And of course this is why I'm
so concerned.
And I come back to find the
stars misplaced.
And the smell of a world that
has burned.
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO [see
below]:
C5 C#5
C5 B5
The smell of a world that has
burned.
Well, maybe it's just a change
of climate.
C#7
E7#9
I can dig it, I can dig it, baby,
I just want to see.
B9
F#7
So, where do I purchase my
ticket?
I would just like to have a
ringside seat.
I want to know about the new
Mother Earth.
I want to hear and see
everything.
I want to hear and see
everything.
I want to hear and see
everything.
Aw, shucks, if my daddy could
see me now.
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO:
[tabbed by Damski]
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------4-----------------------
D-----2---4----2--------------------------4----2---4------2--4-2--
A--4--------------------0--2--4-----2------------------4----------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------5-----7b-7b-7b-7b-7b-7b-7----x----------
G----------------------6------------------------------------------
D----------0-----4 s
6--------------------------------------------
A--2---4----------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------4----------------------
G-----------------------------------6------4----------------------
D---x----x---x------------2-h-4-s-6----6-------6-s-4----2---------
A---x----x---x----2----4------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------2------2-2-4-x------------
D------------------4---2----------4-----2------2-2-4-x------------
A------2---4--------------4-p-2-------------4---------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
Chord positions
B9 C9 C#9 C#7 D9 E7#9 F#7 G#7
B5 C5 C#5
E 2 3 4 X 5 X 2 4 x x x
B 2 3 4 5 5 8 2 4 X X X
G 2 3 4 4 5 7 3 5 X X X
D 1 2 3 3 4 6 2 4 4 5 6
A 2 3 4 4 5 7 4 6 2 3 4
E x x x X x x 2 4 x x x