'Across The Sea' by Weezer - Guitar Tutorial

            weezer
across the sea
album: pinkerton
submitted by m. burgess


tuning: 1/2 step down

Intro

and this is how you would play it on the guitar
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b----------3----0--------------------------------
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a----------------------3-----------------5-------
e----------------------------------------3 (add heavy distortion)

Verse
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G          B     E              D
You are an eighteen year old
    G                B           C       D
girl  who lives in the small city of Japan
G             B         E             D
   You heard me on the radio
    G             B         C             D
About one year ago and you wanted to know
G           B         E               D
   All about me and my hobbies
G          B           E               D
  My favorite food and my birthday


Chorus
G                 B          E               D/B
   Why are you so far a  way from me?
G             B                 E                  D
   I need help   and your way accccross the sea
 
C                                                    

All notes
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               I         could neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever   

                                      B

e-10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10
b-12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12
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             touch youuuuuu


A

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    I think it would be wrong         oh

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a-5----5-----5---5-----2-2---5--5--3---3--------5----5----5-----5-----5------5-----
e-3----3-----2---2-----0-0--------------------------------3-----3-----3------3--
         I've got your letter              You've got my song

Riff A
 E             D           C            B    
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   A              A               A                A

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Verse
G                      B    E           D
They don't make stationary like
  G                         B           C          D
this where I'm from so fragile, so refined
G           B        E          D
    So I sniff           and I lick
                     (So I snare)                (and I lick)
G                    B               C               D
    Your envelope and fall to little pieces every
G         B                     C                   D
time I wonder what clothes you wear to
    G          B                             C      D
school. I wonder how you decorate your
   G          B            C           D
room   I wonder how you touch yourself and
    G            B            C         D   (play fill 1)
curse myself for being across the sea


Filll 1
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Chorus

Solo

Fixed from the previous version. May not be completely right, but
it's a helluva lot closer than the last one.


A#        A           G                F              D#                   C#         G       D


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E         D#            G#       B                   A             F#    

At  ten I shaved my head and tried to be a monk

E         D#            G#       B                   A             F#    

I thought the older women would like me if i did


E           D#      G#             B                  A      F#           /F#
   You see mom    I'm a good little boy
                                                                 (good little boy)
E          D#          G#   B            A       F#          /F#   B
    It's all your fault   momma   It's all your fault


Verse

G          B              C                  D
Goddamn   This business is really lame

G            B                 C            D
  I gotta live on an island to find the juice

G                B                           E                D
  So you send                          me your love
                         (So you send)                  (me your love)

G                                    B                   C                             D
   From all around the world                          As if I could live on
                                           (from all around the                  world)

G                        B                C          D
Words and dreams and a million screams oh

E           B            C         D
How I need a hand in mine to feel

G                    B                  A                     E E  E  E   DDDDDD
     Why  are you so far away from me

G                    B                  A                     E E  E E E E E E E E
     Why  are you so far away from me


C                                                    

All notes
e-12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12-
b-13-13-13-13--13-13-13-13--13-13-13-13--13-13-13-13-
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               I         could neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever   

                                      B

e-10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10--10-10-10-10
b-12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12
g---------------------------------------------------
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             touch youuuuuu


A

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    I think it would be wrong         oh


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a-5----5-----5---5-----2-2--5--5--3---3--------5----5----5-----5-----5------5-----
e-3----3-----2---2-----0-0-------------------------------3-----3-----3------3-----
         I've got your letter              You've got my song
                                                            (I've got    your

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a-5----5-----5---5-----2-2--5--5--3------------5----------5-------
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        I've got your letter              you've got my song
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