In Your Town

Hi Rory Fans,

since I use to take a look at the netnews, there's never been a Rory

Gallagher TAB. So I tried to work out one myself. It's my first

TAB-posting, so feel free to make suggestions.

This TAB contains the intro and the main riffs. I think, it's senseless to

tab the whole song exactly, because Rory usually does a lot of tricking and

spontanous improvisation, especially during this song. Listen to the

recordings, e.g. on Deuce and Live in Europe.

So that's the way you should play this song. Take this material as basic

and variate it. If requested, I could try to work out the solo, too.

So have fun...

Dirk

RORY GALLAGHER: IN YOUR TOWN

Rory uses a Fender Tele tuned to Open-E: E H E G# H E (low to high) and

a capo on the third fret. I noted the the frets up from the capo to mark

the open played strings.

Be careful with the picking. Rory holds the plectrum between his thumb

and the 1st finger and addidionally picks the upper strings with his 2nd

and 3rd finger.

The slide he mostly puts on the 3rd finger.

The Intro:

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The main riff goes something like this:

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look out baby, your man is back in town [...]

For the instrumental bridge after "so look out..." try this pattern:

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look out baby, your man is back in town

look out baby, I won't stand no messin'`round

the first man I wanna see is the Chief Police

bring that man right over here

I wanna speak (?) my peace

I wanna cause no trouble, no fuzz, no fight

but you look out man, you know this is saturday night

the second man I wanna see is the old fire chief

bring that man right over here

stand him right in front of me

I wanna cause no trouble, no fuzz, no fight

see this match, I might set this place alight

so look out...

the third man I wanna see is the old D.A.

he was the man who sent me away

twenty two years, twenty three days, twenty four minutes

I was locked away

you come along baby, ask me where I've been

up-the-river-holiday (??), up in Sing Sing

one cold floor, four bare walls

that's all they gave me, nothing else at all

Sing Sing, Sing Sing, Sing Sing

when I came out I could not feel a thing...

now I'm back in your town

in your town, in your town, in your town...

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* transcribed 9/94 by *

* dirkhoffmann@student.uni-tuebingen.de *

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