Chord/Tab song: Second Coming

The Stranglers - Second Coming
Tabbed By: Reecy
Email: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


SECOND COMING

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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth ([email protected])
Date of Transcription: 3rd April 2002

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intro: keyboard - D - C# C - C#

main riff:

[D] [C]

E---------------------------------------------------------|
G---10--10----10--10------------0---------------0---------|
B----9---9-----9---9----------5-----5---------5-----5-----|
D----7---7-----7---7--------5---------5-----5---------5---|
A-------------------------3---------------3---------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------|

(play riff throughout the verses)

[D]Somewhere in Africa, [C]somewhere in Rome
[D]People are sleeping [C]awake in their homes
[D]Waiting for shepherds to [C]tend to their sheep
[D]Their disappointments lay [C]piled in a corner heap

chorus:
this is kind of a question and answer section, the bass and
keyboards play the riff... and then the guitar plays a riff.
bass root notes are provided in the brackets above.

[(Bb] [E] [Eb)] [(F] [B] [Bb)] [(C] [Gb] [F)] [(G] [Db] [C)]

E------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
G------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
B---bass-------0-|---bass-------0-|---bass--------0--|---bass-------0---|
D---bass-----0---|---bass-----0---|---bass------0----|---bass-----0-----|
A------------8-----|------------3-----|------------10------|------------5-------|
E----------6-------|----------1-------|----------8---------|----------3---------|

A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.

[(Bb] [E] [Eb)] [(F] [B] [Bb)] [(C] [Gb] [F)] [(A] [D] [Db] [A] [D] [Db)]

E------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
G------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
B---bass-------0-|---bass-------0-|---bass--------0--|-----no guitar----|
D---bass-----0---|---bass-----0---|---bass------0----|--- no guitar----|
A------------8-----|------------3-----|------------10------|--------------------|
E----------6-------|----------1-------|----------8---------|--------------------|

A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.

[(A] [D] [Db] [A] [D] [Db)]

E------------------|
G------------------|
B------------9--9--|
D------------7--7--|
A------------------|
E------------------|

(It will come in!)


(main riff)

[D]Turn on the sets and then [C]wait for the show
[D]Will he have long hair and [C]what will he know?
[D]Will he tell jokes or will [C]he make us cry?
[D]If we write to him will [C]he send back a reply?

(chorus)
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
(it will come in!)

(main riff)

[D]Like everybody I [C]wait for the day
[D]Like everybody I'll [C]send him away
[D]He may be ugly and [C]have problem hair
[D]Even speak funny and [C]make all the people stare
[D]A second co - ming will come in
[C]A second co - ming will come in
[D]A second co - ming will come in
[C]A second co - ming will come in

[D]Second [C]coming...

(repeat verse riff until fade)