Title - The Real Folk Blues
Composer - Yoko Kanno
Performed by - Seatbelts feat. Mai Yamane
Album - Cowboy Bebop OST
This is the full version of the end theme from Cowboy Bebop. I found the Cowboy Bebop
OST Band score, but that didn't provide tabs or chord boxes - all electric guitar
parts were written in standard notation, and all acoustic guitar parts written with
chord names and slash notation. So I had to figure out an easy way of playing the
acoustic guitar chords. Here's what I came up with, as well as the lyrics and approx.
where the chords go in relation to them.
|E A D G B e|
|-----------|
F#m7|2 4 2 2 2 2|
A(add9)|x 0 2 2 2 0|
or|x 0 2 2 0 0|
D#m7(b5)|x x 1 2 2 2|
Dmaj7|x x 0 2 2 2|
B7|x 2 4 2 4 2|
E|0 2 2 1 0 0|
Bm|x 2 4 4 3 2|
F#m9/C#|x 4 2 2 2 4|
C#7sus4|x 4 6 4 7 4|
C#7|x 4 6 4 6 4|
F#m|2 4 4 2 2 2|
F#m7/E|0 4 4 2 2 2|
B7/D#|x x 1 2 0 2|
C#7/F|x x 3 4 2 4|
Aadd9/C#|x 4 2 2 0 0|
B7(9)/F#|x 2 4 2 2 2|
One of the trickiest fingerings is the B7/D# - C#7/F. I play it using this fingering:
B7/D#C#7/F
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With the B7(9)/F#, you could probably just play a B7/F# and fill in the (9) with other
parts if you like.
-Intro.
F#m7 A(add9) D#m7b5 Dmaj7 (repeat)
-Verse 1
F#m7A(add9)
Aishi-teta to nageku ni wa
B7 F#m7E
Amari ni mo toki wa sugi te shimatta
F#mA(add9)
Mada kokoro no hokorobi o
B7 F#m7
Iyasenumama kaze ga fuiteru
-Verse 2 (same as v.1)
Hitotsu no me de asu o mite
Hitotsu no me de kinou mitsumeteru
Kimi no ai no yurikagode
Mo ichido yasurakani nemuretara
-Pre-Chorus
Bm F#m9/C# D#m7b5 Dmaj7 C#7sus4 C#7
Kawaita hitomi de dareka na itekure
-Chorus
B7
The real folk blues
C#7 F#m F#m7/E
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
B7/D# C#7/FEm7 D#m7b5 Dmaj7
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
Aadd9/C# B7 C#7
Ichido kiri de owarunara
-Verse 3 (same as v.1)
Kibou ni michita zetsuboto
Wanagashikakerareteru kono chansu
Nani ga yoku te warui no ka
Koin no omoi to kuramitaita
-Pre-chorus 2.
Dore dake ikireba iyasareru no darou
-2nd Chorus
B7
The real folk blues
C#7 F#mF#m7/E
Honto no yorokobi ga shiritai dake
B7/D#C#7/F F#m7
Hikaru mono no subete ga ougen to wa kagiranai
-Chorus (same as first chorus)
The real folk blues
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
Ichido kiri de owarunara
F#m7 (eight measures)
F#m7 B7/F# F#m7 B7(9)/F# (repeat and fade)
That's all she wrote. Literally.
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Thanks!
