Flapjacks From The Sky tab

Flapjacks From The Sky

Song Title: Flapjacks From the Sky      
Band: Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Members: Joziah Longo, Tink Lloyd, Sharkey McEwen, Tony Zuzulo
Album: Flapjacks from the Sky (2004)
Band Website: www.slambovia.com

This tab is the author’s own work and represents his / her 
interpretation of the song.  

Tabbed by: Alex Dunckle  [email protected]
Tuning: (D  G  C  F  A  D)

Intro Part: Artificial harmonics, best played with pinched harmonics method. 
Look this up online for instructions on how to do it. 

This is the the part that your right hand plays:
Intro (repeats twice):
 D|---------------------------------------------------------||
 A|---------------------------------------------------------||
 F|--*7-------*9---------*7-----*7-------*9-----------------||
 C|-----*7-------*10--*7----------*7--------*10(let ring)---||
 G|--------*8------------------------*8---------------------||
 C|-0------------------------0------------------------------|| 
    ^                        ^
    |                        |                  
Note: NO harmonics on base note (C)---let these ring. 

This is the part that your left hand frets:
Intro (repeats twice):
 D|--------------------------------------------------------||
 A|--------------------------------------------------------||
 F|--0----------2---------0-----0--------2-----------------||
 C|-----0----------3----0---------0--------3 (let ring)----||
 G|--------1-------------------------1---------------------||
 C|-0-----------------------0------------------------------||


Riff in between verses x2:
 D|---------------------------------||
 A|---------------------------------||
 F|-----7--10p7-9p7-----------------||
 C|---7-------------10p7-9p7--5/3---||
 G|---------------------------------||
 C|-0-------------------------------||


Verse Riff 1 (repeat 
"Look in the sky over there see that light..."
 D|----------------||
 A|----------------||
 F|------3---------||
 C|----2---2-------||
 G|----------------||
 C|--0-------------||

Veres Riff 2:
"What could it be, it right over here.."
 D|----------------||
 A|------8---------||
 F|----7---7-------||
 C|----------------||
 G|----------------||
 C|-/5-------------||


Verse Riff 3:
"Bathed in blue light...  ..do you think it's from God?"
 D|---------------------------------------------||
 A|--------10---------10--------8--------8------||
 F|-----10----10---10----10---7---8----7---7----||
 C|---------------------------------------------||
 G|---------------------------------------------||
 C|--/7----------7----------5--------5----------||

Chorus Part:
"The heavenly mother put love in the batter for you...doobedoo."
 D|-------------------------||
 A|-------------------------||
 F|-------------------------||
 C|-------------------------||
 G|-7--6--5--3--777-6--3-0--||
 C|-7--6--5--3--777-6--3-0--|| <--mute last note. 

That is all of the basic guitar parts anyway. 
The rest of the song is pretty well covered in 
effects / orchestration. Good luck!

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