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Rainy Day Sun Guitar Tablature
This is a classic Spinal Tap song recorded in their heyday in the '60s.
It is such a masterpiece that I decided to type it in. It is taken from
a songbook for Break Like The Wind. Sorry, no lyrics; I'm doing this from
memory. This is a technical masterpiece from guitarists Nigel Tufnel and
David St. Hubbins, the two major songwriters.

Every four notes is one measure; it is in 4/4 time.

intro: (two measures)
E7  (hold)          E7 (hold)

verse 1:
rhythm: (all half notes)

    |    |    |    |     |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
   /    /    /    /     /    /    /    /    /    /    /    /    /    /
   Am   Am   C    C     Dm   Dm   E7   E7   F    F    G    G    C    C

   E7   E7   Am   Am    C    C    D    D    D    D    E7   E7   E7   E7

                    verse 2:
   E7   E7   E7   E7|   Am   Am   C    C    Dm   Dm   E7   E7   F    F

   G    G    C    C     E7   E7   Am   Am   C    C    D    D    D    D

                                          chorus:
   E7   E7   E7   E7    E7   E7   E7   E7|  C    C    G    G    C    C

   D    D    A    A     E    E    A    A    E    D    C    C    G    G

   C    C    D    D     E7   E7   E7   E7   E7   E7   E7   E7   Am   Am

                                verse 3:
   E7   E7   Dm   Dm    E7   E7|  Am   Am   C    C    Dm   Dm   E7   E7

   F    F    G    G     C    C    E7   E7   Am   Am   C    C    D    D

                                                    bridge:
   D    D    E7   E7    E7   E7   E7   E7   E7   E7|o Am7  Am7  Bm7  Bm7
                                                   |o
   C    C    Bm7  Bm7   Am7  Am7  Bm7  Bm7  F    F    E7   E7o| E7   E7
                                                             o|
                                verse 4:
   E7   E7   E7   E7    E7   E7|   Am  Am   C    C    Dm   Dm   E7   E7

   F    F    G    G     C    C     E7  E7   Am   Am   C    C    D    D

                                                    coda:
   D    D    E7   E7    E7   E7    E7  E7   E7   E7|  E7   E7   E7   E7

   E7   E7   E7   E7    Am   Am    E7  E7   Dm   Dm   E7   E7|o Am7  Am7
                                                             |o
                                                             repeat 10x
   Bm7  Bm7  C    C     Bm7  Bm7   Am7 Am7  Bm7  Bm7  F    F    E7   E7o|
                                                                       o|
   Amaj7 (whole note -- half measure)

to play:
   intro
   verse 1
   verse 2
   chorus
   verse 3
   bridge
   verse 4
   chorus
   coda

chords:
  E7  	  Am  	  C  	  Dm 	  F   	  G   	  D   	  A   	  E   	  Am7
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||*|||	||||*|	||||*|	|||||*	*|||**	||||||	||||||	||||||	|||*||	||||*|
------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------
|*||||	||**||	||*|||	|||*||	|||*||	|*||||	|||*|*	||***|	|**|||	||*|||
------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------
||||||	||||||	|*||||	||||*|	|**|||	*||||*	||||*|	||||||	||||||	||||||
------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------
020100	x02310	x32010	xx0231	133211	320004	xx0132	x02340	023100	x02010

  Bm7 	 Amaj7
======	======
||||||	|||*||
------	------
|*|*|*	||*|*|
------	------
||||*|	||||||
------	------
||*|||	x02130
------
x13121

Enjoy the song. You may have to listen to it to get the exact rythm of.
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