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song: Twist My Arm
band: The Tragically Hip
album: Road Apples
This is a great song to play! Easy, but funky. It's my favorite Hip song.
main and sometimes...
|---------------|----------------|
|---------------|----------------|
|---------------|-3--------------|
|-3-5---0-3-5-5-|---5--0-3-5-5---|
chorus x2
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-3-------------3------------5--------------------------|
|---5--0-3-5-5----5--0-3-5-5---5--0-3-5-5--3-5--0-3-5-5-|
"musical chairs..."
|-----------------| play that about 3 times
|-----------------| and then the main riff
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-| once. Then play the whole
|-----------------| part again.
riff around the end
|-----------------|
|------5-3--------|
|-3-5------5-3-0--|
|-----------------|
play the main riff a few times here, and then play:
|---------------------------------------|
|------5-3------------------------------|
|-3-5------5-3-0------------------3-3-0-|
|---------------------------------------|
end riff
|----------------|
|------5-3-------|
|-3-5------5-3-0-|
|----------------|
That's about it. Long Live The Hip!!!!
Tab by Erin MacIntosh
pumpkinhead4ever@yahoo.com
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
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Chris Rhythm Player |
#1 by Chris Marcoux at Jul 19, 1979 at 8:07 AM EST |
| on the live version i just listend to on thehip.com, gord says "this is a barenaked ladies song called twist my arm". i thought that a little odd, but gord is quite random . | |
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marvin Lead Player |
#2 by marvin at Sep 12, 1985 at 3:17 PM EST |
| I think anyone will tell you this song isn't really about the lull of Detroit, it's just one of the ways Gord personalizes shows to match the cities he's playing in. I really like the last stanza: Martyrs don't do much for me Though I enjoy them vicariously After you. No! After me. No, I insist! Please, after me. You can picture two martyrs fighting over who gets to take one for the team. I kind of see this song as a satire of religion in that sense. Doesn't want to twist his arm into conforming with religious traditions? But there also seems to be more the aspect of a woman with "all that charm." I don't know... | |
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tony Average |
#3 by tony lambiase at Jan 31, 1986 at 10:22 AM EST |
| on the live between us album, gord downie introduces this song as being "about the lull of Detroit"... but who knows? it can mean whatever has most meaning to you, as with most songs. | |
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ian Wanna Be |
#4 by ian shoemaker at May 4, 2000 at 3:31 AM EST |
| Could this be a smattering of Bible stories thrown into one song? Jonah and the whale, the calf stanza representing the Prodigal Son...I guess the line big fat Jones can mean only one thing...Still, a great song and I listen to it intently. | |
