Song: Tea and sympathy (LIVE version)
Artist: Janis Ian
Composer: Janis Ian
Tabbed by DJ ( DiddyD on ultimateGuitar.com)
9th Dec 2012
NOTE:
This tab is based on the live 1976 Old Grey Whistle Test performance,
which differs in the intro and coda from the original album version.
Below is a link to the live video, the song starts at [0:44]:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-EMi87--Y
The performance has a simpler intro and coda from the album version.
During the coda Janis plays an arpeggio on a Bb shape that slides up
two frets to a C shape, but she doesn t play the top string on either.
She sings a G against the Bb which adds the 6th, so you can choose to
play a Bb, or the fuller Bb6 shape adding the top string in.
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the performance key of A)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= 320003 = x21202 = 022030
= 3x2013 = xx2000 = x24432
= x02010 = xx0000 = 200210
= xx0212 = x32000 = x13333 or = x1333x
= 20023x = x02020 = x3555x
= 024000
An alternative voicing for the progression in the last line of the verses:
= xx5433 = xx4232 = xx2000 = xx0000 = x32000
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
I don t want to ride... the milk train any - more,
I ll go to bed at nine, and waken with the dawn,
And lunch at half past noon, ...dinner prompt at five,
The comfort of a few old friends, long passed their prime!
[Verse 2]
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Let s drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they ve won,
It s a long, long time til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
I ll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 3]
And when the guests have done, I ll tidy up the room,
I ll turn the covers down, and gazing at the moon,
I ll pray to go quite mad, ...and live in long a - go,
When you and I were one, so very long ago!
[Verse 4]
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Let s drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they ve won,
It s a long, long time til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
I ll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 5]
And when I have no dreams to give you any - more,
I ll light a blazing fire, and wait within the door,
And throw my life a - way, I wonder why! they all will say,
Now I lay me down to sleep for - ever, and a day!
[Verse 6]
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days are dead,
Let s drink a toast to those who best sur - vived the life they ve lead,
It s a long, long time til morning, ...so build your fires high,
Now I lay me down to sleep,
For - ever by your side-----! | / / / / | / / / / | / ||