Artist: Califone
Song: Mean Little Seed
Tabbed by: Starcat
Open E tuning (easiest to do open-D: DAD#AD with capo on 2nd; tab relative to capo)
*As with most Califone songs, as you play this main riff/melody, you also do a light strumming of the open strings to affect that open tuning drone, which I won’t painstakingly tab out here. Just play this riff and strum around until it sounds right.
Intro/Verse (4x):
E------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G#-----------------------------------------------------------------
E---10----5///9\\\----0h4------0h2--------------0------------------
B------------------------------------0h2---------------------------
E-------------------------------------------0----------------------
“Texas looks like Galilee,
Cripple trees and mean little seed”
Chorus (4x):
E------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G#-----------------------------------------------------------------
E--------3h5--3--------------------0-------------0-----------------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------5/6\5------3bp0----------3bp0--------------------
Verse riff (4x)
“Today hung clearly fake only for your eyes
Spit it out, James, take it all apart
Waiting for the yellow bleed mustard from a crow
Quiet quick violence
Chorus riff (4x)
Bridge:
E-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G#----------------------------------------------
E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0-------
B-----------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------
Yeah, like shit on old money
E-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G#----------------------------------------------
E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0-------
B-----------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------
yeah, can't wash it off
E------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------
G#-----------------------------------------------------------
E----10--9--10--9------///7-------4\\\2p0---4\\\2p0----------
B------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------0-(ring heavy)
Held like lice on a lion
Then this slight variation on the verse riff (2x)
E------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G#-----------------------------------------------------------------
E----10-----9-----5----7-----4\\2p0---------------0----------------
B----------------------------------------0h2-----------------------
E----------------------------------------------0-------------------
Chorus riff (4x)
Bridge riff (2x)
Well, stay quick and quiet now mmm, my mean little seed
Held like lice on a lion
Chorus riff (4x)
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