Lets Get The Show On The Road

Song: "Let's Get The Show on the Road"

Artist: Michael Stanley Band (MSB)

Album: "Friends and Legends" and "Stagepass" (live)

INTRO picking:

(Chord = Bm) (Chord = A) (Bm)

E----------------------|---------------------|-------------------------------+

B----------2^3---------|----------0^2--------|----------2^3 > 5 > 7----------|

G---------------4------|---------------2-----|-------------------------------|

D------4-----------4---|------2------------2-|------4------------------------|

A--2-------------------|--0------------------|--2----------------------------|

E----------------------|---------------------|-------------------------------+

(A)

E-------------------|| [NOTE: ^ = hammer-on or pull-off;

B------0^2----------|| > = slide]

G-----------2-------||

D---------------2---||

A--0----------------||

E-------------------||

Bm-A-G-A (bass notes + chords) to round out the intro.

Bm A G quick A going back to Bm

Let's get the show on the road, babe

At the curtain take a bow

New Haven, just a rendezvous to take you to a

Lover, who was then but never now

And Susan played the lady

Who called the players' songs

Just a figurine of stagehand reveries

Guess up-and-coming can't be that wrong

Bm-A-E interlude x 2

Bm A G quick A before returning to Bm

Let's get the show on the road, babe

Spotlights on the stage

Somehow it seems I've heard these words before

Did you forget to turn the page?

And remember what they told you

About how the show goes on

How can you come back, if you've never gone away?

How can you sing without a song?

Bm-A-E interlude x 2

And today's for sale

And it's all you can afford

And by your own admission

The whole thing's got you bored

And the Lord uses the good ones

And the bad ones use the Lord

INTRO, etc again, with sax solo (sorry, I haven't had sax in a long time)...

Bm A G quick A before Bm again

Let's get the show on the road, babe

Won't you take a look around

One thing to remember

When you're climbing to the top

You'd better know the way back down

I can't believe you'd really stumble

But then I always knew you'd fall

It seems so easy to say I knew you when

I'd rather it was [sic] not at all

Bm-A-E interlude x 2

And today's for sale

And it's all you can afford

And by your own admission

The whole thing's got you bored

And the Lord uses the good ones

And the bad ones use the Lord

OUTRO picking:

(Chord = Bm) (Chord = A)

E----------------------|---------------------||

B--------------3-----2-|--------------2----0-||

G----------4-----------|----------2----------||

D------4---------------|------2--------------||

A--2-------------------|--0------------------||

E----------------------|---------------------||

The above tablature is somewhat simplified for 2 reasons:

1) Two guitars are used on the album ("Friends and Legends").

2) I can't make out some of the quicker passing notes, so I've just left them

out.

Enjoy!

Jim! "You don't have to have the intelligence

jreese@leland.stanford.edu of a brain surgeon to play rock and roll."

--Sting