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RE: (TV) Venus De Milo
Hey, I just put MM in the CD rom now. Thanks Ken.
Patrick
It is not the big armies that win battles; it is the good ones.
Marechal Maurice Comte de Saxe, Mes Reveries, 1732
Patrick Q. Mullen
Electronic Resources Unit
Richter Library
University of Miami
Office: (305)284-3367
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Thompsen [SMTP:joseph-k@swbell.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: (TV) Venus De Milo
>
> Hello out there,
>
> I was thinking about playing some acoustic stuff soon at a book store,
> coffee shop or something, and thought I might add a TV song to my list. I
> started transcribing Venus and just started getting carried away...I'm not
> sure if anyone has already transcribed this yet. Anyway, I feel like
> sharing...Maybe some of you would want this.
> Feel free to improve it, upload it, etc..
>
>
>
> Television
> Venus
> Marquee Moon (1977)
>
>
>
> Chords: Guitar 1 (Tom Verlaine)
> Riffs and Secondary Rhythm: Guitar 2 (Richard Lloyd)
> Solo: Guitar 1 (Tom Verlaine)
>
> Intro
>
> Riff 1: 3X
>
>
> F G
>
> E-------------------------------3--------------------------------
> B--\6---5------3---5---3-----------------------------------------
> G--\5---5-------------------4------------------------------------
> D----------------------------------------------------------------
> A----------------------------------------------------------------
> E----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Riff 2: 1X
>
> F C G C
>
> E-----13--------------------------13-----------------------------
> B--------13---------13---------------13---------13----13---------
> G-----------14---------12---------------14---------12------------
> D--15------------14-------14---12------------14------------------
> A----------------------------------------------------------------
> E----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> F C G
>
> E-----13--------------------------13-----------------------------
> B--------13---------13---------------13--------------------------
> G-----------14---------12---------------14-----------------------
> D--15------------14-------14---12--------------------------------
> A----------------------------------------------------------------
> E----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Verses:
>
>
> C
> It was a tight toy night
>
> C F G
> Streets so bright
>
> C
> The world was so thin
>
> C F G
> Between my bones and skin
>
> Am Am
> There stood another person
>
> F F
> Who was a little suprised
>
> Am Am
> To be face to face
>
> F G
> With a world so alive
>
> Em Am
> How I fell
>
> Em Am
> "Did you feel low?"
>
>
>
>
> F
> Na
> Riff 1: 1X
> G
> "Huh?"
>
> Em Am
> I fell right into the
>
>
>
> F G Riff 1: 1X
> Arms
>
>
>
> G F C G C Riff 2: 1X
> of Venus De Milo
>
> F C G
>
>
> Repeat, verse starts in C
>
> You know it's all like
> Some new kind of drug
> My senses are sharp
> and my hands are like gloves
>
> Broadway looked so medieval
> It seemed to flap, like little pages
> and I fell, sideways laughing
> With a friend from many stages
>
> How we felt
> "Did you feel low?"
> No, not at all
> "Huh?"
> I fell right into the Arms of Venus De Milo
>
> Solo/Break
>
> Okay, follow this rhythm as "loosely" as possible...
> If you really want to sound like the Tom here, use a volume pedal...
> Each line is a bar...
>
> Am Am
> Em Em
> F F
> C C
> Am Am
> Em Em
> FFF FF
> GGG
>
> Suddenly (C)
> My eyes went so soft and shaky
> I knew there was pain
> The pain is not aching
>
> The Richie, Richie said:
> "Hey man, lets dress up like cops, think of what we could do!"
> Somethin', Somethin',
> Said, "You better not..."
>
> And I fell
> "Did you feel low?"
> Na
> "Huh?"
> I stood up, walked out the Arms of Venus De Milo
>
> Riff 2: Instead of ending the second bar in G, repeat the first bar...
> The third time is too tricky for me...Richard masterfully ends
> Tom's beautiful little "folk" song with some kind of scale from
> G to the endnote -- C.
>
> Here are the chords:
>
> F C G C
> F C G C
> F C G G
> C
>
>
> 7/12/01
>
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