Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Chords & Tabs

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From: shruew@cyclone.xnet.com (Johnny Mnemonic)
Subject: Smiths- the.boy.with.the.thorn.in.his.side.tab
To: guitar@nevada.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 04:37:43 -0500 (CDT)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/smiths/the_boy_with_the_thorn_in_his_side_tab.html ]
 
 
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 
 
As usual, dont quote me on the bass part as I dont pay too too much
attention to it.  
  
intro (i'm just showing the chords, i'm too lazy to tab out each 
time he strums the chord)
                         
 
  C   D         C  Cmaj7 Dsus4C  D
e-3---2---     -3---3----3----0--2--
b-5---3---     -5---5----3----1--3--
g-5---2---     -5---4----2----0--2--
d-5---0---  x2 -5---5----0----2--0--
a---------     ---------------3-----
e---------     ---------------------
 
g---------     ---------------------
d-----0---     ----------0--0----0--
a-3-----0-     -3-------------3-----
e---------     ----3--0------------- 
 
The song repeats the following pattern, then ends with the intro, 
then back through it again.  Also again, i dont tab out all the
strumming (which insnt to be confused with the times he is actually 
holding the notes)
 
 
  G           Am                              C/Am
              The   boy with the thorn in his side      behind the
e-7-----7-7----8-8--5-------------------------8-------------------
b-8-----8-8----1010-7-------------------------8-------------------
g-7-----7-7----9-9--7-------------------------9-------------------
d-------------------7---------------------------------------------
a-----------------------------------------------------------------
e-----------------------------------------------------------------
         
g-----------------------------------------2-----------------------
d-------------------0----------0-0-----4--------------------2-----
a---------------------------------------------0--3-0------3-------
e-3-------3------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  C      D
  hatred there lies 
e-10-----5-----------
b-8------7-----------    you go though that twice then change the
g-9------7-----------    last C to a 3 one for the rest of the song
d-10-----7-----------                5
a--------------------                5
e--------------------                5
                     
g--------------------
d--------0-----------
a-3------------0---0-
e----------------2---
 
 
                                                                   
end with the intro
 
 
Tom
shruew@cyclone.xnet.com