Stories For Boys Bass Tab

Boy Tabs:

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U2 "Stories For Boys" -BASS TAB
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steve palmer am560@freenet.carleton.ca

Tune down 1/2 step: Eb AB Db Gb

During intro riff:
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|


Main riff:
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|--7---5-5-7-7/12-10-----|--7---5-5-7-7/12-10-----|
|----7-------------------|----7-------------------|


Verse:
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|--7---5-5-7-7/12-10-----|--7---5-5-7-7/12-10-----|
|----7-------------------|----7-------------------|
     There's a place...  ...far away...


|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|--7---7---7---7---------|--7---7---7---7---------|
|----7---7---7---7-------|----7---7---7---7-------|
     There's a...   ...will grow...

				     /-played fast-
|------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|------------------------|---------------5------7------------|
|--5-5-5-5---7-7-7-7-----|--5-5-5-5--3-3----5-5----3---------|
|------------------------|-----------------------------------|
   Sometimes the...   ...sometimes I can't  let    go


  |------------------------|
  |------5------7----------|
  |--3-3----5-5----3-------|
  |------------------------|
  hello,   hel  -  lo...



Chorus:
          |------------------------|------------------------|
          |-----------------5-5----|-----------------5-5----|
          |--7-7--7-7--5-5---------|--7-7--7-7--5-5---------|
          |------------------------|------------------------|
stories for boys...      stories for boys...


(These parts make up the rest of the song.)

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/u/u2/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Steven Wanna Be	#1 by Steven Douglas at Nov 27, 1970 at 10:47 PM EST
	i read somewhere that their manager at the time was convinced that this song was about masturbation..i guess it kinda makes sense.

No Picture Kc Rhythm Player	#2 by Kc Brady at Jan 23, 1971 at 11:24 PM EST
	Oh, for crying in Manhattan! This is a song about boys and their fantasy heroes, not about wrestling with the one-eyed superhero. It's about boys being young and innocent enough to find escape in books, TV, comics and stories. That's all it's about is boyhood innocence and nothing else

No Picture Aaron Wanna Be	#3 by Aaron schmidt at May 3, 1971 at 12:52 PM EST
	now that u brought up the masturbation thing i cant stop thinking about it...it really fits...but i personally think it has more to do with escaping reality and just getting away by getting lost in books, songs...anything to just get away from whatever is bothering you

No Picture Oliver Average	#4 by Oliver Russ at Jan 25, 1977 at 10:06 AM EST
	Amen, cutesparkina.

No Picture jUsT_tHe_PoStAl Wanna Be	#5 by jUsT_tHe_PoStAl_SeRvIcE at Apr 17, 1983 at 4:57 PM EST
	boys always looking for heroes and role models hey..

No Picture Mike Wanna Be	#6 by Mike Foster at Feb 19, 1989 at 7:06 PM EST
	Apparently this was one of U2's earliest songs and had written it long before Boy came around. Bono mentioned that there is a part in this, not sure if he meant lyrics or in the melody that is extremely similar to Vertigo. I've been listening to it lately to try to pick up on what he was on about but alas...to no avail.... However, the first line "There's a place I go and I am far away" to me is wierdly similar to one of the songs on the Beatles first album called "there's a place" "there's a place...where I can go..when i feel low...when i feel blue....etc" Every time I hear stories for boys I think of that. Sorry if I'm boring you to death, just what i think..!

No Picture PalaNIN Wanna Be	#7 by PalaNIN at Apr 7, 1990 at 9:38 PM EST
	MiracleDrug, Tea-For-On: On the VERTIGO 2005//U2 LIVE FROM CHICAGO dvd, recorded on 9th and 10th May 2005, Bono actually wanders off into the lyrics of Stories For Boys during the song Vertigo. It's a great moment and indeed, "hello hello" seals the deal.

No Picture max Average	#8 by max the bassist at Dec 5, 1994 at 11:32 PM EST
	Haha, it's funny. The masturbation thing seems too plausible to me now. Who'da thunk it?! I read somewhere a long time ago that Bono had said this song was about his love of comic books as a young child/teenager and how he often read comics and novels and used TV to sort of escape reality. It certainly fits if you think about all the references U2 songs have made to books and film in their songs...Dorian Gray, Lord of the Flies, etc. I don't know if that interpretation is true, but it seems pretty fitting.

No Picture Thomas Average	#9 by Thomas Reuter at May 12, 1999 at 5:44 AM EST
	MiracleDrug- Could it have been the "Hello Hello"? =P