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From: "Bernardo Siu F."
Subject: c/church/reptile.tab

[Note: I didn't write this -- BS]

REPTILE - THE CHURCH
====================
Lyrics - Steve Kilbey
Music - The Church
Transcribed - Phil Grant 1994


NOTATION
========
(3) sustained note

/....\
2 bend note, hold then release

0h2 hammer on

14\
\ slide


GUITAR 1 RIFF A
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||
|----11-10-11----|----11-10-11----|----11-10-11---|----11-10-11---||
|-12----------10-|-10-------------|---------------|--------------.||
|----------------|----------------|-13---------13-|-13-----------.||
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||


GUITAR 2
(with RIFF A by GUITAR 1)
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|--/...........\-|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|-2--------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|-5-------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|-----5~--------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|

1. Too dan-ger-ous to keep
2.3. (see additional lyrics)
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|-5--------------|-----5--3-------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|-----------5~---|--3------------|-(3)-----------|

Too fee-ble to let go
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|---/...........\|------------/---|---------------|----------/----|
|-14-------------|----------14----|-12------------|-(12)----7-----|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|

And you want to bite the hand
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|-(7)------------|-(7)-----7--5---|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|--------------8-|--5------------|-(5)-----------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|

Shoulda stopped this long ago
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|---/...........\|---------15-----|---------------|---------------|
|-14-------------|------------12--|-(12)----------|-(12)----------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|


BOTH GUITARS
(CHORUS)
Go now, you've been set free Another month or so you'll be poisoning me
/........\
|------10--------|-------10-------|------10-------|---------10----------|
|----8----8------|-----8--------8-|----8----8-----|---------------------|
|-10----------10-|-(10)------10---|-10---------10-|-(10)----------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|

With your lovely smile
/........\
|------10--------|-------10-------|------10-------|---------10----------|
|----8----8------|-----8--------8-|----8----8-----|---------------------|
|-10----------10-|-(10)------10---|-10---------10-|-(10)----------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|

I see you slither away with your skin and your tail
|-----------------10--------|------------------10-------|
|------------8---------8----|---------8---------------8-|
|-----10-----------------10-|-(10)---------10-----------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|

your flickering tounge and your rattling scales
/........\
|-----------------10----------|------------10----------|
|-------------8--------8------|------------------------|
|------10------------------10-|-(10)-------------------|
|-----------------------------|------------------------|
|-----------------------------|------------------------|
|-----------------------------|------------------------|

Like a real reptile________________
/........\
|------10--------|-------10-------|------10-------|---------10----------|
|----8----8------|-----8--------8-|----8----8-----|---------------------|
|-10----------10-|-(10)------10---|-10---------10-|-(10)----------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|
|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------|

SOLO
|----------------------|----------------|--------------|--/-0---------------|
|-0----------/---------|--/------/------|------/-----0-|-3------/\----------|
|-0--0-0-0--2----2---0-|-2---0--2--0----|-0---2--------|-------2--2-0-------|
|----------------------|--------------0-|--------------|----------------0h2-|
|----------------------|----------------|--------------|--------------------|
|----------------------|----------------|--------------|--------------------|

|----------------------|--/---------------|------/----------|---------------|
|-0-------12---/-----0-|-3---0-0----------|-----2/----------|---------------|
|-0-12-14----14--14\---|---------2/\--0---|-0---2-----------|-2--0--------0-|
|-------------------\--|----------------0-|-----------------|--------2------|
|----------------------|------------------|-----------------|---------------|
|----------------------|------------------|-----------------|---------------|


OUTRO (repeat to fade)
|----10----10-------|----8----8--8----8|-10------10----|-10----10-------|
|-11----11----13-11-|-10---10------10--|---11-13----13-|----13------13--|
|-------------------|------------------|---12-12-12-12-|-12-12-12---12-.|
|-------------------|------------------|---------------|---------------.|
|-------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------|
|-------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------|


LYRICS
1.
Too dangerous to keep
Too feeble to let go
And you want to bite the hand
Shoulda stopped this long ago

Chours
Go now, you've been set free
Another month or so you'll be poisoning me
With your lovely smile
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail
Your flickering tounge and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile

2.
Had you coiled around my arm
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes
But that was long ago

Chorus

Solo

3.
And I should have believed Eve
She said we had to blow
She was the apple of my eye
It wasn't long ago

Chorus


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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 01:22:39 -0600
From: Enrique Zamudio
Message-Id:

Tabs for "Reptile" by The Church
transcribed by Enrique Zamudio
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
zamudioe@risc.uia.mx

Use a delay time of about 350 milliseconds for the first part.

There are two guitars in the song. The first one goes with the delay,
while the second one has a light distortion.

Guitar 1

!-----------------------------------------------------------------------!
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------!
!--12---15--14--15---------15--14--15-----15--14--15--------15--14--15--!
!-------------------15--15-------------13------------13--13-------------!
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------!
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------!

Guitar 2

!--
!--
!--
!--
!--
!--

Chorus (with a light distorsion):

!---------10-----------10---------------10-----------10>11--10--!
!------8-----8------8---------8------8-----8------8-------------!
!--10-----------10---------10----10-----------10----------------!
!---------------------------------------------------------------!
!---------------------------------------------------------------!
!---------------------------------------------------------------!

!---------------------------------------------------------------!
!---------------------------------------------------------------!
!--------------------------------------------------------9--7---!
!--5----7>8--7----5--8--7--5-----5--5----5----7>8--7--5---------!
!-----------------------------7---------------------------------!
!---------------------------------------------------------------!

!-------------------------------------------------------------!
!-------------------------------------------------------------!
!--9--7-------------------------------------------------------!
!---------7----5--7>8--7----5--8--7--5-----5--5----5--7>8--7--!
!---------------------------------------7---------------------!
!-------------------------------------------------------------!

(Let ring, there's a strong feedback here)

!------------------------------------------------------------!
!------------------------------------------------------------!
!------------------------------------------------------------!
!--5--8--7--5-----5--5---------------------------------------!
!--------------7---------------------------------------------!
!------------------------------------------------------------!