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/ Iron Maiden / Somewhere In Time (1986) / The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner guitar tab

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
By Iron Maiden(Steve Harris)
>From Somewhere in Time.
Tabbed by Andrew Godley
drifter@earwax.pd.uwa.edu.au  or godley@physics.usyd.edu.au


Intro Riff 
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-------7-8-10-8-7-8---------7-8-7h8p7------|
G|:-9--9--------------7--7--9-----------9-7-:|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------10-11-13-11-10-11------------10-11-10h11p10-------------|
G|:-9/12-12-------------------10--10--12----------------12-10------:|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
Repeat both lines again.  Slide first times only.

Verse
e|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|:------------------------------------------7-5---------------:|
D|-7-------------9-------------10----------------8-7-5----------|
A|-5-555-555-555-7-555-555-555-8-555-555-555-----------8-7------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------8----|
                                            first ending
                                  pre chorus
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------7---------------9---------|
G|--7-5-----------------------7-4--7-6--4-4--7-4-6--9-8--6-6--9-6-\-|
D|------8-7-5-----------5-7-8---2--5-4--2----5-2-4--7-6--4----7-4-\-|
A|------------8-7-5-7-8---------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
   second ending                 |:          :|1|2|           :|1|2|
1st time end on b, second time c# then first time d#, second time
slide the E down.  Now go back and play the verse and prechours again.                            
Chorus
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|:---7----7----7----7-7\-----3----3-----3p2-0------5----5----5----5|
D|----7----7----7----7-7\-----3----3---3-------3----5----5----5----5|
A|-55---55---55---55-------11---11---1-----------33---33---33---33--|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
                                    ------------
                   one gtr continues with chord pattern

                                 Riff 1
e|-----------------------------|------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|------------------------------------|
G|-5\--------------------------|--10--------9-----------------------|
D|-5\----3----3----3----3-3\--:|-----12-------10--------------------|
A|-------3----3----3----3-3\---|--------12-------10-----------------|
E|----11---11---11---11--------|------------------------------------|
On repeat of chorus, one guitar plays the chords agian, the other
repeats fill 1.

>From here, the song goes into a two guitar harmony, followed by
another harmony part, then a chordal bridge over..."I've got to
keep running..."  then the solo, which has some overdubbed harmonies
towards the end.  Then comes the verse, prechorus and chorus, then the
chorus again, then the intro riff played faster.  Then the final harmony:

e|------------7-----------------------------7--------------10-7-----|
B|-7h8-7-8-10---10-8-7-----------7h8-7-8-10---10-8-7-8-7-8----------|
G|---------------------9-7-9-7h9------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-------------10---------------------------------------------------|
B|-10h12-10-12----12-10-12-10---------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------12-10-12-10h12------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
  Play 3 times                              |

e|-------------10----------------------10----------|
B|-10h12-10-12----12-10-12-10-12-10-12----12-------|
G|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------15----14-15--------------------------------------|
B|--17-15-17-14-15----17-------15----14-----------------------------|
G|--17----------------------------16----16--------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-------------10---------------------------------------------------|
B|-10h12-10-12----12-10-12-10-12-10h11p10---------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------12-11\\\\\\\\9~~~~~~~-----|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
All with a doublet feel.

I don't know the second part of the harmonies, the solo, the solo rhythym
off hand.  I have the book, but it is at home... about as far away as can 
be but still on Earth.  I do know one part to the harmonies in the middle
of the song, and I will try and tab them up later. 





Iron Maiden albums
2003 Dance of Death
2000 Brave New World
1998 Virtual XI
1995 The X Factor
1992 Fear Of The Dark
1990 No Prayer For The Dying
1988 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
1986 Somewhere In Time
1984 Powerslave
1983 Piece Of Mind
1982 The Number Of The Beast
1981 Killers
1980 Iron Maiden
Somewhere In Time tabs
01Caught Somewhere In Time tabbass tab
02Wasted Years tabbass tab
03Sea Of Madness tabbass tab
04Heaven Can Wait tabbass tab
05The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner tabbass tab
06Stranger In A Strange Land tabbass tab
07Deja-Vu tabbass tab
08Alexander The Great tabbass tab

 

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