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/ Ben Harper / Welcome to the Cruel World (1994) / The Three of Us guitar tab

The three of us
Ben Harper
From « Welcome to the cruel world » 1st track
Tabbed by lafokalawe (valentein@caramail.com)
Istrumentals 2 parts :
1-acoustic guitar tuned in DGCFAD 1 step down
2-Weissenborn tuned in F open CFCFCF

First sorry for my bad english

Part one 6x
Tempo free Play along the song to catch it
  G             C        G            G                C            G
|---------3--2------0---------------|---------3---2----0---------------|
|------------------1------------3---|-------0----------1---3--0--1--3--|
|-----0-----------0----------0------|-----0------------0------------0--|
|-----------------------------------|------------------2---------------|
|----------------3------------------|------------------3---------------|
|--3----------------------3---------|--3----------------------------3--|

  G               C        G          G            C               G
|---------3--2----0-----------------|------3--2----0-------------------|
|-----------------1--------3--------|--------------1---3--0--1-----3---|
|-----0-----------0--------0--------|----0---------0---------------0---|
|-----------------2-----------------|--------------2-------------------|
|-----------------3-----------------|--------------3-------------------|
|--3-----------------------3--------|--3---------------------------3---|

		  Slower
                 G     D/F#     Em    D/F#      G    D/F#      G
|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------------------|
|--1-0h1p0-----|-----0--------|-----0--------|-----0--3----------------|
|-----------0--|--0-----2-----|--0-----2-----|--0-----2---------0------|
|--------------|-----------0--|-----------0--|-------------0-----------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------------------|
|--------------|--3-----2-----|--0-----2-----|--0-----2---------3------|

Play this part 6 times with little variations

2nd part lap steel style
I play on a acoustic guitar and it sounds quite good.
I use a iron lighter as bottleneck but in glass it sounds good too
Tuning C F C F C F
/ means slide up and \ means slide down
(4/2) means the notes are linked

2nd Verse
|--0h2--/-4---\------|--0--2--/4---(4\2)--0-----|--0-2p0--2-p-0--/4~~--|
|----------------5~~-|----------------------5~~-|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------------|----------------------|

|--4-/(5--\4)-0-------------|-/(4\2)-2p0--\2p0-------/(4\2)-/4--0------|
|---------------0--2-/-5----|-------------------2p0----------------5~~-|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------|

3rd verse
|--/4~~------/(7-\-5)--/4-------------|-------0h2-------2-p-0--/4------|
|------------------------------5~~----|------0--------0----------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--/(4\2)-2p0--\2-\2------/4-0----------------|
|--------------------2p0--------0-0-----------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------0-------|
|-----------------------------------------0---|
|---------------------------------------------|

4th verse
|---2--------2~~-------|--0h2---2------2~~------|--0h2----2p0-/4-------|
|-0--------0-----------|-0-----------0----------|-0--------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|----------------------|

|-/(4\2)-2p0--/7--(4\2)-/(4\2)p0-2--0------|
|-------------------------------------5~~--|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|

Last verse
|--0h2-/4---(5\4)--|----/(5-\-4)---\2--\2------0------|
|------------------|-----------------------------5~~--|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------|----------------------------------|

|---0h2-----2-----(2-/-4~)-4\2--2--/4-(4\2)--0--/4--0-------------------|
|--0------0-----0---------------------------------------0---------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------5--4---0---0-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------4---|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|


Ben Harper albums
2003 Diamonds on the Inside
2001 Live From Mars
1999 Burn to Shine
1997 The Will to Live
1995 Fight for Your Mind
1994 Welcome to the Cruel World
Welcome to the Cruel World tabs
01The Three of Us tabbass tab
05Waiting on an Angel tabbass tab
07Forever tabbass tab
08Like a King tabbass tab
09Pleasure and Pain tabbass tab
10Walk Away tabbass tab

 

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