You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance - TAB/Chords

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 YOU PAY YOUR MONEY AND YOU TAKE YOUR CHANCE (live version)
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 Transcribed and tabbed by Steve Meger (sam@michaelsengineering.com)
 
 Arrangement transcribed from the CD of the same name
 recorded live at the Barrymore Theater in Madison, Wisconsin May 3, 1997.
 
 Tuning:  Drop F# (E A D F# B E)
 
 
 
 Intro:
 
 Improvised fingerstyle guitar in Phrygian mode
 (D major scale on 1st and 2nd strings, with F# drone on open 3rd
 string)
 
 
 Riff:
   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .    ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 ||----9---9---9---9---7-------5---|4-----------0-----------4-------|
 ||----10--10--10--10--9-------7---|5-----------0-----------5-------|
 ||0-------0-------0-------0-------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
 ||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 ||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 ||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .    ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
  |----7---7---7---7---5-------3---|2-------2---------------2-------|
  |----8---8---8---8---7-------5---|------------3-------3-----------|
  |0-------0-------0-------0-------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .    ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
  |----9---9---9---9---7-------5---|4-----------0-----------4-------|
  |----10--10--10--10--9-------7---|5-----------0-----------5-------|
  |0-------0-------0-------0-------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .    ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
  |----7---7---7---7---5-------3---|2-------2---0-------0-----------|
  |----8---8---8---8---7-------5---|3-------3---2-------2---3-------|
  |0-------0-------0-------0-------|0-------0-------0-------5-------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  |--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
 
 
 Basic chord progression for verse and chorus:
 (each chord gets four beats)
 
 F#m7
 x-x-4-3-2-0
 
 C#m7sus/E
 x-x-2-2-5-2

 Em7
 x-x-2-1-3-0  (with hammer-on from open 3rd string to 1st fret)

 Bmsus/D
 x-x-0-0-3-0
 
 repeat
 
 
 
 Woman cry chase man down street crying "no Chuckie no, please don't"
 another girl comes they run along St. Andrew, turn down south on Kensington
 meanwhile, Chuckie beats it down the alley by the chicken packers
 by the time I reach the corner they've all vanished
 just deaf kid talking like Popeye to a large laughing fleshy man in a
 blue suit
 
 chorus:
 You pay your money and you take your chance
 when you're dealing with love and romance
 (repeat)
 
 
 Down the alley past the fire escape a woman is talking on the telephone
 kitchen light spills out laughter riding on it's beam
 in the maze of Moebius streets we're all trying to amuse ourselves to death
 under the deep sky that's squatting so close over us
 you'd think it was trying to hatch us
 the numb and confused, the battered and bruised
 the counters of cost, and the  (Bmsus/F# chord: 2-2-0-0-0-0,  let ring)
 star-crossed
 
 chorus
 
 fingerstyle guitar solo in Phrygian mode
 (D major scale on 1st and 2nd strings, with F# drone on open 3rd
 string)
 
 
 Confused and solo in the spawning ground
 I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love
 moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night-long conversations
 of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices . . .
 in spite of themselves, graceful
 as these raindrops creeping sperm-like across the car window
 stay or leave, give or withhold, hesitate or leap
 each step splashing sparks of red pain in every direction
 and through it all, somehow, this willingness that asks no questions
 
 chorus
 
 
 Ending chord:
 F#m7
 2-4-4-3-2-0