Tab Taken From MyGuitarTabs.com
Motorhome
By The Mother Hips
Words/Music by Tim Bluhm
From the album “Later Days” (1998)
Tablature by Collin Spencer
Tab Symbols:
b = bend up (number after the b represents the target note)
r = release bend
h = hammer on
p = pull off
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
For a guide to text-file tab notation, check out this URL:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab-notation.txt
[Intro]
E B B A
|--------------|----------------|
|--------------|----------------|
|--1-2-1-------|----------------|
|--------2/4---|-4-6-4-2-4-2-2--|
|--------------|----------------|
|--------------|----------------|
(repeat)
E F#7add4/E (2X)
|-----0-----0------|
|-----0-----0------|
|-----1-->--3------|
|-----2-->--4------|
|-----2-->--4------|
|-----0-----0------|
**Note: F#7add4/E is a basic E chord shape shifted up two frets
[Verse]
E C#m
The piano scraped a note
A D E
On the stage in Idaho
|-------------|
|-------------|
|--7b9-(hold)-|
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------------|
E C#m
It sounded like your sleepy voice
A D E --> F#7add4/E (2X)
On the long distance phone
E C#m
The moon is gone or else he turned his head
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A D E
And the canyons dark and all eyes are red
E C#m
But you don’t have to worry about finding your way
A / D / E --> F#7add4/E
[Chorus]
F#m11(no5) E/G# C D E
And I wanna do something sweet for you
(**Note: F#m11(no5) to E/G# looks like this:)
|----0-----0------|
|----0-----0------|
|----2-->--4------|
|----4-->--6------|
|----x-----X------|
|---(2)->-(4)-----|
(Notes in parentheses are optional, in the absence of a bass)
F#m11(no5) E/G#
And I wanna buy you a
(play intro over each 'Motorhome')
Motorhome, Motorhome
E --> F#7add4/E (2X)
[Verse]
E C#m
Someone has been caring for me
A D
While I'm asleep and on a [?]
E C#m
Was that you oh my far away
A D E --> F#7add4/E
Surfer Girl caring for me?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Intro]
E --> F#7add4/E (hold)
******
Chord Shapes
E [022100]
B [x24442]
A [002220]
[577655]
F#7add4/E [044300]
C#m [x46654]
D [xx0232]
[x57775]
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