THE REIVERS
"Star Telegram"
from "End of the Day"
transcribed by Phil Dennison (pldennison@peta.net)
[*addition/correction at bottom by Brian Poe]

I don't know how to notate the strum patterns or
the note values for the lead parts, but they
can easily be picked out after a couple of listens.
There are several guitars on the song
(including some distorted electric slide in
the right channel), but these are the most
notable parts.



Chords used:

       E  A  D  G  B  E  (x=muted, O=open)

Gadd9: 3  x  5  4  3  5   --play the low notes on these two chords with the thumb
A :    5  x  7  6  5  5
D:     x  5  7  7  7  x
G:     3  5  5  4  3  3
Bm:    x  2  4  4  3  2
Em:    7  7  9  9  8  7
G/F#:  2  x  O  O  3  3
Em(I): O  2  2  O  O  O

Fill 1:

(let all notes ring)
Gadd9                                A
--------------|------------------|--------------|-2-----------------
--------------|-0----------------|-------2----- |-------2-----------
-----0-----0--|---0--------------|---4-----4-  -|---4-----2----------
--------4-----|------4--0--------|--------------|--------   ------------
--------------|------------------|-0------------|-------------------
-3------------|------------------|--------------|-------------------




Intro:

(clean electric guitar)

       Gadd9              A
   |:  / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / /  :|

(bass, drums, lead guitar, and slide guitar enter)
(with Fill 1)
       Gadd9              A
   |:  / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / /  :|


      Gadd9                            A
V1:  I just remember everything, those Fort Worth drives that summer sings
       Gadd9                             A
     With lazy beds and polka dots, them backyard chiggers time forgot
(w/ Fill 1)
        Gadd9                            A
     At kitchen table gathered we, With talk of mockingbirds for me
(w/Fill 1)
        Gadd9                                A
     My cousins soon come in this house with viewpoints going once around


          G        D
Chorus:   In those golden Mustang days
          Bm       D                 Em
          Backyard sulfur and croquet
          Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram
          G        D              Bm
          And I'm talking in the fan
                 D              Em
          Orange Crushes in my hand
           Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram


(with Fill 1)
     Gadd9              A
   | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |


      Gadd9                         A
V1:  I just remember eggs and bacon earlier than eyes could open
      Gadd9                             A
     Crape and myrtle driveway runs, azaleas rich chrysanthemums
(w/ Fill 1)
        Gadd9                               A
     That croquet match both night and day enough to discombuberate
(w/Fill 1)
        Gadd9                            A
     The sun was somehow not so hot, my granddad daily on the spot

          G        D
Chorus:   In those golden Mustang days
          Bm       D                 Em
          Backyard sulfur and croquet
          Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram
          G        D              Bm
          And I'm talking in the fan
                 D              Em
          Orange Crushes in my hand
           Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram


         G         G/F#
Bridge:  If you're looking at me
         Em(I)    A              G
         If you watch me make my way
                       G/F#              Em      A
         I hope you're proud of what you see
         G         G/F#
         If you're looking at me
         Em(I)    A              G
         If you watch me make my way
                       G/F#              Em      A
         I hope you're proud of what you see
         G        D              Bm        D
         In those golden Mustang days . . .

        | Em  / Bm / | G / A / |


(with Fill 1)
      Gadd9              A
   |: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|


      Gadd9                                 A
V3:  I feel the shape that house today, the green rocks could all melt away
      Gadd9                                 A
     The train at night that woke my mother breaking quiet in the ether
(w/ Fill 1)
        Gadd9                               A
     The neighbors could all move away, the mockingbirds could fly away
(w/Fill 1)
        Gadd9                                A
     We'd drive by, and my dad will say, "My goodness how its changed."


          G        D
Chorus:   In those golden Mustang days
          Bm       D                 Em
          Backyard sulfur and croquet
          Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram
          G        D              Bm
          And I'm talking in the fan
                 D              Em
          Orange Crushes in my hand
           Bm       G    A
          With the Star Telegram
         G        D              Bm        D
         In those golden Mustang days . . .

        | Em  / Bm / | G / A / |

        |: Em  / Bm / | G / A / :|  D		
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*Addition/correction submitted by Brian Poe:

Star Telegram main riff, as played live by John Croslin:

-----------------------------|-----------------0--------------
---------------0-------------|--------------0-----0-----------
------------0-----0----------|----------6------------6--------
--------0-----------4--------|-------7------------------7-----
-----2-----------------5-----|---0----------------------------
-3---------------------------|--------------------------------