Go By

Go By - Elliott Smith

Tabbed by: ciaran rooney

From "New Moon", disk one. It's played in D tuning (DGCFAd)

The intro is based around E major, you play the bottom string parts with your baby finger

d|---2--2--O-----2--3--O----------------------------------------------|

A|---O-----------O----------------------------------------------------|

F|---1-----------1----------------------------------------------------|

C|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

D|-O----------O-------------------------------------------------------|

Here's the chords:

.. Go on parade and fade

(F#m) C

Hit the ceiling slow

Spending all your time with some girl

You'll never get to know

G (F#m) c

Wound up tight

Dressed all in white

Some torment saint

Blowing out to drift

... Leave you even if

You live up in your head

(F#m) C

Scared of every little noise

Someone's always breaking in accidentally

Using nothing but their voice

Shrill and small

Echo down the hall

Repeating pet names

Seeing it in your eyes

... You're only passing by

Chorus:

. . . . . . . Go by

C#dim D5 (slide to) E5 C

... Go by

Someone's in the way

(F#m) C

Pretty words and inside slurs

All the things they have to say

To perform the work that they've rehearsed

It's a waste of time

I put it behind me

Once and for all

And let the hype decline

.. If the problem wasn't mine

Repeat chorus, finish on C

Here's some of the lead guitar parts which play over the verse.

.. Spending all your time .... Wound up tight .. Dressed all in white

d|-10--8---7--8---7---------------10----8-----7------10----7--8---7--------|

F|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

.. Some torment ....

d|------10-------------------------5-----5----5----------------------------|

F|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

You'll need to listen to the song to figure out how these lead parts fit in with

the chords as they're quite tricky

Corrections welcome!