Welcome to Guitar World Tabs
"Madrigal"
by Rush
from A FAREWELL TO KINGS
tabbed by Paul Bryant
Song is in 4/4
LEGEND: ^ means string bend
Intro: Synthesiser and Guitar. YOU figure out what effects
will make your guitar sound like the mighty Mini Moog!
|-12---------|------------|---------|-------------------|
|-----12--14-|------------|---------|-------------------|
|------------|-14--11--13-|---------|-------------------|
|------------|------------|-14------|-11----------------|
|------------|------------|---------|----14-12----------|
|------------|------------|---------|-----------14-12---|
| | | | |
|-0----------|-2----------|-0-------|-2-----------------|
|-0----------|-3----------|-0-------|-3-----------------|
|-1----------|-2----------|-1-------|-2-----------------|
|-2----------|-0----------|-2-------|-0-----------------|
|-2----------|------------|-2-------|-------------------|
|-0----------|------------|-0-------|-------------------|
|-12---------|------------|---------|-------------------|
|-----12--14-|------------|---------|-------------------|
|------------|-14--11--13-|---------|-------------------|
|------------|------------|-14------|-11----------------|
|------------|------------|---------|----14-12----------|
|------------|------------|---------|-------------------|
| | | | |
|-0----------|-2----------|-0-------|-2-----------------|
|-0----------|-3----------|-0-------|-3-----------------|
|-1----------|-2----------|-1-------|-2-----------------|
|-2----------|-0----------|-2-------|-0-----------------|
|-2----------|------------|-2-------|-------------------|
|-0----------|------------|-0-------|-------------------|
|----------------------------22^-| * See note 5 below
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|-11------14----11------14-------|
|-----14------------14-----------|
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|--2---0---------2-2-0-----------|
|--3-------3-2-0-3------3-2-0----|
|--2-------------2---------------|
|--0-------------0---------------|
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"When the dragons grow too mighty To"
Figure A:
|--0-------0----0-0---|-2------2------|
|--2-------2----0-2---|-3--------3----|
|--1-------2----1-2---|-2----2-----2--|
|--2-------2----2-2---|-0--4----------|
|--2-------0----2-0---|---------------|
|--0-------0----0-0---|---------------|
"slay with pen or sword, I grow"
Repeat Figure A
"weary of the battle And the"
Repeat Figure A
"storm I walk to - ward. When"
|-0-------0----0-0---|-4-------4------|
|-2-------2----0-2---|-5---------5----|
|-1-------2----1-2---|-6-----6-----6--|
|-2-------2----2-2---|-6---6----------|
|-2-------0----2-0---|-4--------------|
|-0-------0----0-0---|----------------|
"all a-round is mad - ness And there's"
*
|-3----3-2---0---------|-----2-0------------------| * I don't know if this chord
|(0)------------3------|-----------3-2--0---------| is really there. It sounds
|(0)-------------------|---2----------------------| something like the chimes
|(2)---------------2---|-0------------------------| so you may want to play it
|(2)-------------------|--------------------------| if you have no chimes.
|(0)-------------------|--------------------------|
"no safe port in view I"
|----------------------|-------2----------|
|---------2------------|-----------3------|
|------3-----3---------|-----4-------4----|
|----2----------2------|---4--------------|
|-4----------------4---|-2----------------|
|----------------------|------------------|
"long to turn my path home-ward to stop"
*
|-3----3-2---0---------|-----2-0-----------|
|---------------3------|-----------3-2--0--|
|----------------------|---2---------------|
|------------------2---|-0-----------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
"a while with you"
|----------------------|------0-----------|--(0)----------|
|---------2----------2-|-0----0-----------|--(0)----------|
|------3-------3-------|-2----1-----------|--(1)----------|
|----2------------2----|-2----2-----------|--(2)----------|
|-4--------------------|-2----2-----------|--(2)----------|
|----------------------|------------------|---------------|
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The rest of the song is the same as above, with minor picking variations
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"When life becomes as barren and as"
"cold as winter skies, there's a"
"beacon in the darkness in a"
"distant pair of eyes. In"
"vain to search for order and in"
"vain to search for truth, But these"
"things can still be given, Your"
"love has shown me proof"

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