Melt The Guns
(Partridge)
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This song started life as "Holding the Baby".
Album version, 6'31.
Released on English
Settlement.
andy-lead vocals acoustic guitar
colin-fretless bass
dave-electric 12-string guitar
terry-drums and percussion
Demo version, 1'06.
Not released.
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m e l t t h e g u n s
ppppppppp rogrammes of violence as entertainment brings the
pp pp disease into your room we know the germ which
ppppppppp is man-made in metal is really a key to your
pp own tomb prevention is better than cure bad
pp apples affecting the pure you'll gather your senses I'm
sure then agree to melt the guns melt the guns melt
the guns and never more to fire them melt the guns
melt the guns melt the guns and never more desire them
children will want them mothers supply them as long as
your killers are heroes. and all the media will fiddle while
rome burns acting like modern-time Neros. prevention
is better than cure bad apples affecting the pure you'll
gather your senses I'm sure then agree to melt the guns
melt the guns melt the guns and never more to fire them
melt the guns melt the guns melt the guns and never
more to desire them.
I'm speaking to the justice league of america the u s of a
hey you yes you in particular! when it comes to the
judgement day and you're stood at the gates with
your weaponry you dare clasp your hands in prayer
and start quoting me 'cos we say.... our father
we've managed to contain the epidemic in one place now
let's hope they shoot themselves instead of others help to
sterilize the race now. we've trapped the cause of
the plague in the land of the free and the home of
the brave if we listen quietly we can hear them
shooting from grave to grave. you ought to melt the
guns melt the guns melt the guns and never more
to fire them melt the guns melt the guns melt
the guns and never more desire them.
andy-lead vocals acoustic guitar colin-fretless bass
dave-electric 12-string guitar terry-drums and percussion
composed by a. partridge
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[Thanks to Gary Jedlicka]
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:57:33 GMT
From: Tony Lovell <tone (at) wildfire dot com>
Subject: corrections to Melt the Guns
Message-ID: <36068e72.1022727062 (at) fire dot wildfire dot com>
This guy did a very fine job, but I noted some things out of place.
Some fixes are offered here, others don't readily spring to mind.
Okay okay I have trouble doing it with these ingenius songs! But I
have some constructive additions/changes anyway.
I cut some of Ian's work out and inset my notes and corrections with *
The opening hook I believe, can be done barring the 8th fret and
flicking
the upper two strings,( or picking) ...
"Melt the Guns... ...and ne- ver want to fire
them"
E 8 11 11 11 13 11 13 15 13 11
B 11 10 10
*G 8 8 8 ...
* thanks to Ian for divulging this tricky fingering, but I feel
* it is important to
* note a staccato bass offset offered on 8th fret of G string.
* It is possible this is a second guitar playing it.
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The picking that follows...
E 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 0 3 1
B 3 3 2 2 1 1 1
G 2 2 2 1
* Ian pegged this (for which I thank him -- I had no clue)
* but I think he has the fingering wrong. The open feel of this
* is better obtained by using 4 strings, using the open first
* to allow it to "ring", via:
*E 0 0 0
*B 8 8 8 8 8 8 5 8 6
*G 7 6 5 5
*D 7 7 7 6
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Lead in to chorus:
Prevention is better than cure, bad apples affecting the pure, you'll
gather your
C D Bb
* Ian is off in his key here, and it is helpful to note the variation
* in that all 3 chords insistently retain a high F, first as a
* rightful note within a major chord, then as a 9th, and finally
* as a beautifully gnarly flatted fifth. Ouch that hurts so good.
*C# Eb9 B flat5
senses I'm sure then, aaaaaaaaagrreee to melt the guns...Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:04:13 -0800
From: hbmus047 (at) dewey dot csun dot edu (Ian Dahlberg)
Subject: Melt The Guns TAB
Message-Id: <199510030759.AAA21866 (at) dewey dot csun dot edu>
For Mike in Melbourne, most of the magnificent moments in "Melt The
Guns" I managed to muster...
Key:
D D/C# F Amin C A7 Bb13
E 2 2 1 0 3 5 3
B 3 3 1 1 5 5 3
G 2 2 2 2 5 6 1
D 4 4 3 2 5 5 3
A 5 4 3 0 3 7 1
E X X 1 X 3 5 1
The opening hook I believe, can be done barring the 8th fret and flicking
the upper two strings,( or picking) ...
"Melt the Guns... ...and ne- ver want to fire them"
E 8 11 11 11 13 11 13 15 13 11
B 11 10 10
G
The picking that follows...
E 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 0 3 1
B 3 3 2 2 1 1 1
G 2 2 2 1
Which is based on another guitar part (strummed)...
A7sus A7 Amin7
E 5 5 5
B 5 5 5
G 7 6 5
D 5 5 5
A 7 7 7
E 5 5 5
Chunk the following chords using the above suggested voicings and you'll
recognize what's going on.
Programs of violence, as entertainment, brings the disease in to your room
D D/C# F Amin C A7 Eb D Bb13
Lead in to chorus:
Prevention is better than cure, bad apples affecting the pure, you'll
gather your
C D Bb
senses I'm sure then, aaaaaaaaagrreee to melt the guns...
I know there's more but I think I got the important stuff. I'll try and
sneak in "Yacht Dance" next week. Feedback always appreciated!
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