This Night Has Opened My Eyes Bass Tab

Hatful Of Hollow Tabs:

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Verse
G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |---------4---5------------------|---------4^5^4------------------|
A |-----2--------------------------|-----2--------------------------|
E |-2---------------2--------------|-2---------------2--------------|

G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A |-0-------0---2---5-------0---5--|-------------2---0--------------|
E |-----3--------------------------|-2---3----------------------(2)-| Play Last Only 2nd Time

Chorus
G |------------/4-------7-------4--|------------/4-------7-------4--|
D |-2------------------------------|-2------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |------------/4-------7-------4--|--------------------------------|
A |-2------------------------------|-0~~~--------------------5---4--|
E |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Post Chorus
G |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A |(0)------0---2---5-------0---5--|-----0---0----------------------|
E |-----3--------------------------|(3)--------------3-------3---0--|

G |------------/4-------7---4------|--------------------------------|
D |-2------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------|-------------------------5---4--|
E |-----------------------------0--|-3-------2---5------------------|

End Chorus
G |------------/4-------7---4-----|--------------------------------|
D |-2------------------------------|---------5----------------------|
A |--------------------------------|-------------2---5---0~~~-------|
E |--------------------------------|-3---3--------------------------|

Enjoy!

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/s/smiths,_the/140955.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Graeme Wanna Be	#1 by Graeme Cook at Dec 28, 2005 at 9:32 PM EST
	the album this song came from was called 'Hatful of Hollow.' Nice bass!

No Picture I am who am Rhythm Player	#2 by I am who am "SAF" at Feb 3, 2006 at 8:06 PM EST
	Well Morrissey said this song was based on the play 'A taste of honey' so if that is correct, the guy could be the person who got her pregant, or the gay friend who has chosen to look after her when the baby comes along. I'll need to read the play to make sure though!

No Picture aaron Average	#3 by aaron tilton at Feb 13, 2006 at 2:02 PM EST
	An absolutly fantastic Simths song - yet so under-rated. Explicitly it is about a girl giving up her child, but there are hidden meanings throughout. 'News of the World' may be a tacky tabliod but it may also mean wrapping the 'baby' in the statistics of left children and the media as a whole. 'He said he'd cure your ills' is ambigious. This could mean the doctor for an abortion whcih never took place or the man that she slept with. Maybe I'm completely wrong - but it's my interpretation :)

No Picture Katia Average	#4 by Katia Zg at Mar 15, 2006 at 5:51 PM EST
	I love this song. I actually watched the film of "A Taste Of Honey" last year I think at my Grandma's - just one of those dvd's that you get free in the newspaper Lol. But I really liked it. Now I know that this song could actually be based on the film, I want to watch it again ^^ So Ima try find it (y)

No Picture Mark Average	#5 by Mark Bianchi at Mar 24, 2006 at 12:08 PM EST
	"You can't just wrap it up in a bundle of newspaper." "...and dump it on a doorstep." "That river, it's the colour of lead." "I'm not sorry and I'm not glad." "Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough." -A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney

No Picture esuvee ® Lead Player	#6 by esuvee ® at Mar 27, 2006 at 3:14 AM EST
	indeed very very underrated

No Picture Jack Average	#7 by Jack at May 25, 2006 at 10:42 PM EST
	for some reason, the first time i read the lyrics i thought that it was about abortion. it makes sense:"she could've been a poet, she could've been a fool" but then i read it more carefully, and obviously the baby was born and then dumped(see first verse). and the kicking and crying like a bullied child...obviously the baby's father when he found out-worried about his own life, freedom and so on.... pretty clear message i guess

No Picture Bobby Lead Player	#8 by Bobby Parker at Jul 19, 2006 at 4:10 PM EST
	this is an excellent argument about the need for legalized induced abortion.

No Picture Sari Average	#9 by Sari W at Dec 22, 2006 at 4:14 PM EST
	I have read the play and could instantly see the lines which Morrissey has taken from it to put into his songs! 'I dreamt about you last night, and fell out of bed twice' from 'Reel around the fountain' was also from this play. Kez, the man in the book was a sailor, who wasn't very much older than the girl. He got her pregnant but never returned to her after he went away. He didn't know about the baby.

No Picture mario Average	#10 by mario ramirez at Jan 28, 2007 at 10:12 AM EST
	i think the guy who 'said he's cure your ills but he didn't and he never will' is the guy who got her pregnant...an older man who took advantage of a vulnerable young girl

No Picture James Average	#11 by James at Feb 28, 2007 at 5:31 AM EST
	So underrated includes one of my favourite Smiths moments - "a shoeless child on a swing reminds you of your own again..." alarmingly evocative of the circumstance of the girl. I got the impression kind of that the man who said he's cure her ills was a doctor and it was connected with an abortion... Wonderful song, wonderful bit of cribbing for the Moz man.

No Picture james Average	#12 by james dempsey at May 7, 2007 at 1:35 AM EST
	Correct me if im wrong but isnt the tittle of this song "Hatful of Hollow"?? Anyways great song. Top of my list along w/ Radioheads Knives out.