Your Dad Did tab by John Hiatt

YOUR DAD DID - John Hiatt
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|A   |D/A  | x4

     A                   D/A
Well the sun comes up and you ....
             A    D/A
Right through the ...
    A
And you feel like hell, so ...
  D/A             A      D/A
Get out and sell your ...
    D   D/C#   D/B    D/A A
And the missus wears her robe ...
    D    D/C#   D/B   D/A   A
As your daughter dumps her ...
        E            A
And you keep it hid - just ...

So you go to work just to watch ....

F#m       E    D    A
  And you're a chip ..
F#m      E    D   A
  Why does it come ...
F#m      E    D     A
  That every road up .....
    D      E
  Your dad already did....

Well the day was long, now .....
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I had to stop myself from doing a full tab of this - I think Ry Cooder
would find me and rip my arms and legs off just for missing the point
if I did. Beyond the riff itself, this song is obviously completely
improvised - the electric basically follows the chords at various
places along the neck, sometimes  scooping into the root note and
playing with the whammy bar - always good for a bit of childish fun.
Note that the electric is dropped-D tuned (low to high DADGBE) to
get in some low Ds. I just love the attitude of this song - notice
the way that between the verses the guitar will start playing the
riff late, like he'd forgotten, but doesn't really care much! I'm
really jarred off that I'm not old enough to play this song
convincingly.

Anyway, the riff goes something like
 + + + +  + + + +
|---------|---------|
|---------|---------|
|---------|---------|
|-7-6-4-2-|-0-------|
|---------|---4-2-0-|
|---------|---------|
In the introduction, this is built up each time by harmonising it -
listen to the album, cause I'm not going to tab it.

Mostly, the verses are built up by messing with these 2 (vaguely
Free's All Right Now-ish) chords: A-x02225, D/A-x04235.
Occasionally he fiddles about with chords way up the neck like:
A/C#-x x 11 9 10 9, D-x x 12 11 10 10.

The following is played at the end of each verse before '- just like
your dad did'- (remember that the guitar is dropped-D tuned)
 +  +  +  +   +
|-----------------|-----------|
|-----------------|-----------|
|-----------------|-----------|
|-----------------|-----------|
|-----------2-4---|-----------|
|---2-4-2/6-------|-2---------|

The riff after the 2nd verse is changed so it leads to the bridge like
this:
 + + + +  + + + +  + + + +  + + + +  +
|---------|---------|---------|---------|---
|---------|---------|---------|---------|---
|---------|---------|---------|---------|---
|---7-6-4-|-2-0-----|---7-6-4-|-2-------|---
|---------|-----4-2-|-0-------|---4-0---|---
|---------|---------|---------|-------2-|-4-

The acoustic guitar is standard tuned and plays mostly first position
chords: A-x02220, D-xx0232, E-022100, F#m-244222
On the live Budokan version, the acoustic guitar solo bit before the
third verse is just him messing about with these chords:
A-xx765x, E-xx645x, D-xx423x.
Note also that on the Budokan version, the acoustic sort of copies the
sitar riff after "Help the starving children to get well" with
---------4-5---
-3-2-3-5------- (loose timing)
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Finally, the wee bass fill after "Something's taking place" is:
   +    +  +   +  +
--14-13----|-11----------11----|
--------14-|-----11-14---------|
-----------|-----------------12|
-----------|-------------------|