Marlene

Вступление

The whole song revolves around the main repeated pattern in e-minor:

v M v

v - stroke up (with flesh of index finger)

After the hammer-on following the down-stroke use your palm to mute the strings and get the feel from the

recording.

Listening to the song I am pretty sure that JCF is playing without a pick but I could not find any live

footage to confirm. Whenever he is playing e-minor he uses the pattern above - all the other chords are

just strummed freely (listen to song to figure out the rythm).

The full lyrics go like this. I agree with the comments of emilfogh from pajarita33's tab that the correct

lyrics are slightly different than the version found on google.

Chords:

Em 022000

Am x02210

Am/G 302013

D/F# 2x0230

C/G 330210

G 320003

G/F# 2x0003

[Verse 1]

The ghost of her hair,

floats over there

and her smile, her smile

it seems so lonely

She gave me her hand,

as they struck up the band

and she seemed to say,

she seemed to say

"you're the only"

Then we danced like two snowflakes,

in the falling wind,

in the wind...

Oh, do me a favour god...

won't you let Marlene come in?

[Verse 2]

The gymnasium floor,

the brassbound door,

the jungle bird, the jungle bird

that she showed me

Her love was so clean,

to tell the truth Marlene,

the sound of your tambourine still haunts me

We were so young then,

now that I'm old, I know, oh I know

I loved her right then,

but I made Marlene let go

[Verse 3]

My friends in the bars,

hell, they only see the scars

and they do not give a damn, they do not give a damn,

that I loved you

I don't know why,

but once you've seen the sky -

you think, you know all birds are lovely

but there's snow on the ground,

in Woodstock tonight,

it's been twentytwo years dear,

since I saw the light

[Verse 4]

The world did explode,

in such a high powered load

to run, to run to run,

was all that left me

Up heres theres breeze,

high in the clouds we freeze...

to fly, to fly away was the lesson

Though the fire burned her life out,

and left me little more

I am a crippled singer,

and it evens up the score.

[Verse 1]

The ghost of her hair,

floats over there

and her smile, her smile

it seems so lonely

She gave me her hand,

as they struck up the band

and she seemed to say,

she seemed to say

"you're the only"

Then we danced like two snowflakes,

in the falling wind,

in the wind...

Oh, do me a favour god...

won't you let Marlene come in?

Oh, do me a favour god...

won't you let Marlene come in?

[Outro]

v

v

Legend

h - hammer on

p - pull off

t - trill

M - palm mute

v - brush up