Back To The Old House tab by The Smiths

Yuichi Tamano (cs75sdo@sdcc13.
This is a transcript I made of "Back to the Old House" by the Smiths. It's from the
acoustic version from "Hat Full of Hollow". The notes on the high e string are
heavily emphasized and ring loudly. This should be pretty close to the recording,
though there are a few notes different here and there.

Yuichi Tamano



PATTERN A:
------------------------|-------0----------------
-0---1-1----------------|-0---1------------------
-----------------0-2---0|-----------------0-2---0
---2-----------2-----3--|---2-----------2-----3--
-3-------3-2-0-----3----|-3-------3-2-0-----3----
------------------------|------------------------

                      I would...
-----------------0------|-------0---------0------
-0---1---------1---1---0|-1---3---3-1-3-----1---0
-------0----------------|------------------------
---2-----------2-----3--|---2---------0-------3--
-3-------3-2-0-----3----|-3-----------------3----
------------------------|------------------------

...rather not ..
  repeat Pattern A once

LEAD IN TO PATTERN B:
rather not go       back to the old house
------------------------|-------0----------------
-0---1-1----------------|-0---1------------------
-----------------0-2---0|-----------------0-2---0
---2-----------2-----3--|---2-----------2-----3--
-3-------3-2-0-----3----|-3-------3-2-0-----3----
------------------------|------------------------

PATTERN B:
   there's  ...
-------1---------------0|-------1----------------
-1---1-------0---1-3----|-1---1-------0---1-3---0
-2-2-------2------------|-0-0-------2------------
------------------------|------------------------
-3-----3----------------|-3-----1----------------
-------------3-----3----|-------------3-----3----

   there's ..
-------1---------------0|-----------0------------
-1---1-------0---1-3----|-------3----------------
-0-0-------2------------|-----------------0-----0
------------------------|---------------2-----2--
-3-----3----------------|-----2-------2-----3----
-------------3-----3----|-0-3---0----------------

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

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

repeat pattern A twice ("When you cycled by...", "And you never knew...")
lead in to pattern B ("Are you still there?"
pattern B ("Or have you..."

repeat first two bars twice (or so)
play
-----------------0------|-------0----------------
-0---1---------1---1---0|-1---3------------------
-------0----------------|-----------------0-2---0
---2-----------2-----3--|---2-----------2-----3--
-3-------3-2-0-----3----|-3-------3-2-0-----3----
------------------------|------------------------

repeat first two bars many times (about four?)
end on         slowly
------------------------|-----------3-3-3--------
-0---1------------------|-0---1------------------
-------0---------0-2---0|-------0----------------
---2-----------2-----3--|---2--------------------
-3-------3-2-0-----3----|-3----------------------
------------------------|------------------------