'`39 (tab)' by Queen - Guitar Tutorial

            
`39
 Queen, from A Night at the Opera
 
 transcription by
      ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
      pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
 
 Notes:
      On the studio version of this song, there are two guitars.
 This is an approximation for playing it on just one.  Use
 a capo on the first fret.
 
 intro
 X X X X Am Am Am Am
 G G
 
    G       D      Em        C     G    D   C      G
 ---3-------2------0----0----0-----3----2---0------3------
 ---3-------3------0----0----1-----3----3---1------3------
 ---0-------2------0----0----0-----0----2---0------0------
 ---0-----0-0------2----2----2-----0--0-0---2-0_2--0------
 ---2-2_3--------2-2--2-2--3-3-----2--------3------2------
 -3------------------------------3-3---------------3------
 
 
    G       D      Em        C     G  D           G G G G (folk strum)
 ---3-------2------0----0----0-----3--2---------
 ---3-------3------0----0----1-----3--3---------
 ---0-------2------0----0----0-----0--0---------
 ---0-----0-0------2----2----2-----0-----3-2-0--
 ---2-2_3--------2-2--2-2--3-3-----2------------
 -3------------------------------3-3------------
 
 
 
 
 G (pickup chord)  D                         Em
          In the   year of `39.... Assembled here the volunteers
 
         C~       G          D              Em          Em7  In the
 days when lands were few   Here the ship sailed out into the
 
 C~                    D(add G) Dmaj       G 
 Blue and sunny morn   Sweetest sight ever seen.
 
 G   D                           B7
 And night followed day, and the story tellers say
 
          Em                   Am    (then passing notes C B A F#)
 That the score brave souls inside
 
     G                         D 
 For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
 
 C            Em    C     D       C  (G) D------
 Ne`er looked back, never feared, never cried.
 
 
 
           G                           C            G
 Don`t you hear my call, though you`re many years away,
 
 G                         D
 Don`t you hear me calling you
 
                G      F#/G   Em    D      C    B/G        Am  
 Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
 
         Em           D             G
 In the land that our grandchildren knew.
 
 
 
 In the C~, I add D&G on top:
 
 |--3
 |--3
 |--0
 |--2
 |--3
 |--X
 
 Likewise, the D add G is
 
 |--3   (where you add the G)
 |--3
 |--2
 |--0
 |--X
 |--X
 
 
 
 
 In the year of `39 assembled here the Volunteers
 In the days when the lands were few
 Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
 The sweetest sight ever seen.
 
 And night followed day
 And the storytellers say
 That the score brave souls inside
 For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
 Ne`er looked back, never feared, never cried.
 
 Don`t you hear my call though you`re many years away
 Don`t you hear me calling you
 Write your letters in the sand
 For the day I take your hand
 In the land that our grandchildren knew.
 
 In the year of `39 came a ship in from the blue
 The Volunteers came home that day
 And they bring good news of a world so newly born
 Though their so heavily weigh
 For the earth is old and grey, to a new home we`ll away
 But my love this cannot be
 For so many years have gone though I`m older but a year
 Your mother`s eyes in your eyes cry to me.
 
 Don`t you hear my call though you`re many years away
 Don`t you hear me calling you
 All the letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
 
 For my life
 Still ahead
 Pity Me.
 
 
 
 Notes:
 
 I often play Amin7 rather than plain Amin.
 
 The odd chords listed in the chorus I play:
 
 F#/G                B/G
 
 |--3                |--3
 |--3                |--3
 |--0                |--0
 |--0                |--0
 |--0                |--2
 |--2                |--X
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 No one listened to your plea`s you created me.
 
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