Superstar tab by Sonic Youth

"Superstar" by the Carpenters (as covered by Sonic Youth)
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 (found on the "If I Were A Carpenter" tribute album)

Transcribed by James Nazaroff (jamie.nazaroff@projectx.com)



Noise, feedback, then:

  Fm                D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  C#                 C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  A#m               NC----------------------------

e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  NC----------------------------  Fm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|



Fm    D#
 Long ago
    C#     C
And oh so ...
     A#m      C#
I fell in ...
      C
Before the ...


Fm      D#
Your guitar,
     C#         C
It sounds so sweet ...
        A#m     C#
But you're not ...
       C
It's just the ...




C#           C      A#m   G#
Don't you remember you ...
C#            C       A#m  G#
You said you'd be ...
C#     C   A#m   G#
Baby, baby, baby, ba...,
 A#m     Fm
I love you, I ...

  Fm                D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  C#                 C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  A#m               NC----------------------------
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  NC----------------------------  Fm
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


Fm     D#
Loneliness
     C#     C
Is such a ...
     A#m     C#
And I can ...
      C
To be with ...

Fm     D#
What to say,
      C#     C
To make you ...
       A#    C#
Come back to ...
       C
And play yo....




C#           C      A#m   G#

Don't you remember you told ....
C#            C       A#m  G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C#     C   A#m   G#
Baby, baby, baby...
 A#m     C#
I love you, I ...

C#           C      A#m   G#
Don't you remember you told me ...
C#            C       A#m  G#
You said you'd be coming ...
C#     C   A#m   G#
Baby, baby, baby, ...,
 A#m     Fm
I love you, I ...






Ok, I play this song with a capo on the first fret and use the chords
Em, D, C, B and Am in the verses and C, B, Am, G, and Em in the
choruses. This seems to sound pretty close, but I think that Thurston
Moore tunes his guitars flat (Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb).

Anyways, this was close enough for me...





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