Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 14:09:34 +0000
From: Gary Perkin
To: *
"Please be gentle with me" by
"It doesn't matter anymore" on
"Food Records".
Transcribed by Gary Perkin, November 1997.
Not many words with the CD, so this is what they sound like to me.
Intro: (roughly)
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a) Opening bass riff which continues through the intro and most of the
verse.
DGDD
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
e---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A--5-5---5-5-5---5-----------------5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5----|
E------------------3-3---3-3-3---3------------------------------------|
b) Next phrase, played on the CD on I don't know what instrument...
DGDD
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
e------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7--------|
B---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D------------------5--------------------------------------------------|
A--5-------------------------------5---------------5------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------| Verse 1: (Sung over the intro)
--------DGDD
Please be gentle with me,
DGDD
'cos I've been on a long, hard, losing streak,
AG
And I've been down in the dumps, I've been well and truly humped,
A
And my clothes don't seem to fit,
G (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
and my haircuts looking shit.
NB For the "A-G" part above, use the same "G" riff from the intro, and
an "A" riff, which is exactly the same but (predictably!) up two
frets.
Verse 2: (Turn up the distortion!)
--------DD2Gsus4GDD2DD2
Please be gentle with me,
DD2Gsus4GDD2DD2
yes my singing has gone flat out of key,
Asus4AAsus4AGsus4GGsus4G
Oh I've been down in the bin, crawled back out back in again,
And my clothes don't seem to fit, and my haircuts looking...
(The Asus4/A might well be A/A2, or a combination of all three,
but with all the distortion, who can tell?!?)
Bridge:
-------CGDCGD
I say to myself, have I been cursed?
CGDCA
Cos things are bad can they get worse? (can they get worse?)
Verse 3:
--------DGDD
Please be gentle with me, yes my
DGDD
backside, is hanging, out in the breeze
AG
Oh I've been down in the dumps, I've been well and truly humped,
A
And my clothes don't seem to fit,
G (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
yes my haircuts looking shit.
Solo (sort of):
---------------F#mBmF#mBm
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
e---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B--------7-------------------------------7----------------------------|
G------------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6-----------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6----|
D--7-------------7-----------------7-------------7--------------------|
A---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bend each note up a semitone and down again as it's played, and use
some sort of effect. Alternatively, play it on a keyboard...
Bridge:
-------CGDCGD
I say to myself, have I been cursed?
CGDCA
Cos things are bad can they get worse? (can they get worse?)
Final part-verse: (different chord sequence)
-----------------DGBmAD
Please, be gentle with me, be gentle with me
Tab to play under above phrase:-
DGBmA
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
e------8-----7---------8-----7---------7-----5---------10----9--------|
B---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G----------------------------------4----------------------------------|
D------------------5-------------------------------7------------------|
A--5------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------| Outro:
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C G (D Dsus4 x 4)
Please, be gentle with me
CHORDS:
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6 5 4 3 2 1
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C x 3 2 0 1 0
D x x 0 2 3 2
D2 x x 0 2 3 0
Dsus4 x x 0 2 3 3
A 0 0 2 2 2 0
A2 0 0 2 2 0 0
Asus4 0 0 2 2 3 0
G 3 2 0 0 3 3
Gsus4 3 2 0 0 1 3
F#m 2 4 4 2 2 2
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2