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ISN T IT QUIET AND COLD? - Gentle Giant
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Band: Gentle Giant
Song: Isn t It Quiet And Cold?
Album: Gentle Giant (1970)
Tabbed by: Pascual Rambert (Chasco-Mousse, Argentina)
Tuning: Standard
INTRO
3 3 3 3 ===> number of strums
3 3 3 3
VERSE 1
(x2)
3 3 3 3 3
Isn t it quiet and cold walking all alone, alone?
Happened I missed the bus and found I had to walk, alone.
PRE-CHORUS 1
(x2)
3 3 3
CHORUS 1
(x2)
4 4 4 3
What was that? Only me. Hear the echo of my feet.
Footsteps. Are they mine? Hear the echo of the stree
POST-CHORUS 1
(x2)
3 3 3 3
VERSE 2
(x2)
3 3 3 3 3
Wished I lived near at hand although I live alone, alone
At least I ll find company, so why should I moan, alone.
PRE-CHORUS 2
(x6)
3
CHORUS 2
(x2)
4 4 4 3
Movement. By my feet. Paper wind across the street.
Curtains closed. Sleepy heads. Wrapped together in their beds.
POST-CHORUS 2
(x2)
3 3 3 3
BRIDGE
* * /
4 4 2 2 2 2
/9-
2 2 2 2 8
I used to walk with someone else
I didn t seem to notice sights and sounds of the lonely street
POST-CHORUS 3
(x2)
3 3 3 3
I used to talk with someone else
Now the only answers are the calls of the night
SOLO XYLOPHONE
(x2)
3 3 3 3 3
3 3 3
VERSE 3
(x2)
3 3 3 3 3
Look at that alley cat, it s winding home to rest, alone
Half-past four and daylight shows itself once more
OUTRO
(x3)
3 3 3 1
Walking all alone
Walking all alone
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CHORDS
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x00232
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x00231
x00211
022100
133211
244322
x4422x
355433
35533x
x02220
x02020
x02210
x02010
x02230
/9- x02330
x13331
x1313x
x24442
x24432
x24232
* 75440x
/ 54440x
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This tab is based on a transcription by Christof Munoz, available at:
Gentle Giant s official site.