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Hand Of Kindness Tab by Richard Thompson

Hand Of Kindness tab by Richard Thompson

Guitar Tab

HAND OF KINDNESS - Richard Thompson
(Songs of PolyGram International, Inc., BMI)

Arranged for solo guitar by Alan Bostick (abostick@netcom.com).

This arrangement is fairly sparse.  It consists of the guitar part of
Thompson's song "Hand of Kindness" from the album of the same name
(Hannibal/Rykodisc) plus an alternating bass line. I have tried to
be faithful to the original, but there are a couple of places where
the arrangement departs in (I hope) minor ways.

I have tried to keep the rhythm consistent: one beat in a 4/4 measure
takes up 8 characters in the tab. In other words, a single character
width represents a thirty-second note.  The words under the tab are
kind of mushed together to attempt to show the timing of the lyrics.

On the record, Thompson plays an extended solo between the second chorus
and verse 3.  He ends the song by repeating the chorus on verse 3, and
soloing over the groove while the song fades out.  When I play, I don't
play a solo -- I go straight from verse 2 to verse 3 -- and I end the song
by going back to the groove after the second verse 3 chorus, and closing on
the arpeggiated D7sus2 chord.

The tab was prepared using Ofir Zwebner's program, TAB MASTER v1.0


  Intro/Groove

  D7sus4                                        Dm
e:|--------------------------------|--------0-----------------------|
B:|1---1---1---1-------------------|1-----------3-------------------|
G:|0---0---0---0-------------------|0-----------2-------------------|
D:|0---------------0---------------|0---------------0---------------|
A:|--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|




  D7sus4                                       Dm
e:--------------------------------|--------0-----------------------|
B:1---1---1---1-------------------|1-----------3-------------------|
G:0---0---0---0-------------------|0-----------2-------------------|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------0---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|




  D7sus4                                       Dm
e:--------------------------------|--------0--------------------0--|
B:1---1---1---1-------------------|1-----------3-----------------1-|
G:0---0---0---0-------------------|0-----------2------------------2|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------0---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|




  D7sus2
e:--------------------------------|-----------------------------0--|
B:--------------------------------|--------1---------------------1-|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2------------------2|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|





e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------------------|--------1-----------------------|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2-------------------|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
                                                           Well I

  Verse

  Dm7
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------------------|--------1-----------------------|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2---------------2---|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  wove    ..




e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------------------|--------1-----------------------|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2---------------2---|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  picked  ..




e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------------------|--------1-----------------------|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2-------------------|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  stuck ..




e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------------------|--------1------------------1----|
G:--------------------------------|--0h2-------2--------------2----|
D:0---------------0---------------|0---------------3---------------|
A:--------0---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 tightened..



    G         Dm7
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:1/3---------1-------------------|--------------------------------|
G:2/4---------2-------------------|--------------------------------|
D:3/5-------------0---------------|0---------------0---------------|
A:--------5---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
                      Oh--            ...



    G         Dm7
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:1/3---------1-------------------|--------------------------------|
G:2/4---------2-------------------|--------------------------------|
D:3/5-------------0---------------|0---------------0---------------|
A:--------5---------------0-------|--------0---------------0-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
                          How      ..



    G         Dm7                  F
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:1/3---------1-------------------|--------------------------------|
G:2/4---------2-------------------|--------------------------------|
D:3/5-------------0---------------|--------------------------------|
A:--------5---------------0-------|--------------------------------|
E:----------------------------0---|1-----------1---1-----------3---|
                      you ..



  A7sus4
e:----------------3---------------|--------------------------------|
B:------------3-----------3-------|--------3---3---3---3---3---3---|
G:----0---2-----------------------|--------2---2---2---2---2---2---|
D:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A:0-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  mine--                                                   Oh--

  Chorus

  Dm              F                Bb
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:3---3---3---3---1-----------1---|3-----------3-------3---3---3---|
G:2---2---2---2---2-----------2---|3-----------3-------3---3---3---|
D:0-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A:--------0---------------3-------|1---------------1---------------|
E:----------------1---------------|--------1---------------1-------|
  may ..


  Dm              F                Bb
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:3---3---3---3---1-----------1---|3-----------3---3---3---3-------|
G:2---2---2---2---2-----------2---|3-----------3---3---3---3-------|
D:0-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A:--------0---------------3-------|1---------------1---------------|
E:----------------1---------------|--------1---------------1-------|
  may ...



  Dm              F                G
e:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B:3---3---3---3---1-----------1---|3-------------------3---3---3---|
G:2---2---2---2---2-----------2---|0-------------------0---0---0---|
D:0-------------------------------|--------0---------------0-------|
A:--------0---------------3-------|--------------------------------|
E:----------------1---------------|3---------------3---------------|
  may ..



  A                                Eb7sus2
e:----------------3---------------|--------------------------------|
B:--------------------3-----------|----------------2---2-------2---|
G:2-------2---------------2-------|3-------3-----------------------|
D:------------3---------------3---|----1-------1---1---1-------1---|
A:0-------------------------------|------------------------1-------|
E:--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ime




e:--------------------------------|   From here go back to the groove for
B:2-------2---2-------1---1-------|   four measures, then verse then chorus.
G:--------------------------------|
D:1-------1---1-------1---1-------|
A:----1-----------1-----------1---|
E:--------------------------------|



Arranged and transcribed by Alan Bostick
(abostick@netcom.com)

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