Arousing Thunder

Song : Arousing Thunder

Artist : Grant Lee Buffalo

Album : Copperopolis

Transcribed by : Geoffrey Nickles

For this song you will need to detune your guitar down

1/2 a step: eb bb gb db ab eb

The intro of the song is D and Dsus4 with the

following riff played over the top it four times:

e-----2-3--2---- X 4

b---3---------3-

g-2-------------

d---------------

a---------------

e---------------

Then the first verse starts

(with intro riffx2 played over the top)

Maybe the rain's holding off,

Em G D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D (I'll just refer

Surely it knows, we're down here to this as

D riff now)

Em G D riff

Walking 'round barefoot lost

Pretty soon these clouds have got to clear

I know it's a lot

Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop

For a second so I could coax you to talk

(There could be a very quick G in here, I'm not sure)

Em ^ D riff

Em G D riff

Think when we first layed eyes

Em G D riff

Didn't know who you were and then I was one more passerby

Em G D riff

You were the girl in the entryway, thats all that I knew but

You were still in school and I was insecure

I know it's a lot

Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop

For a second so I could coax you to talk

A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m D riff D riff

About your dreams and orange soda tea leaves, tv, more....more

(If you don't like all the changes above you can just strum the F#m

the whole way though til 'more' but it doesn't sound as good)

Em G D riff

Looks like the rains holding off

Em G D riff

Might as well take this slow

Em G D riff

You know sometimes when I hold you in silence I listen real close

Then I hear you talking to my soul

Well I know it ain't half

of this story I'm only meaning to ask

G D A D riff D riff D riff etc

Just what would it take to coax you to laugh? To laugh, To laugh To laugh

Em G D riff

Em G D riff

Em G D riff

Just play G over the following lines

What would it

What would it D

What would it take you to laugh?

Repeat the above twice, then

I'm not too sure on the ending but I'll give it a go

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Na na na na na na na

Then play D (plus the riff a few times) till

the end.

A couple of the chords:

D sus4 F#m

e-3- e-2-

b-3- b-2-

g-2- g-2-

d-0- d-4-

a-0- a-4-

e-x- e-2-

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