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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

VERSE 1

Gm Bb E Am Am7 (x2)
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

D D D (x2)

CHORUS 1

D Dm7 G D (x2)
What was that? Only me. Hear the echo of my feet.
Footsteps. Are they mine? Hear the echo of the stree

POST-CHORUS 1

C F Bb A (x2)

VERSE 2

Gm Bb E Am Am7 (x2)
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

D (x6)

CHORUS 2

D Dm7 G D (x2)
Movement. By my feet. Paper wind across the street.
Curtains closed. Sleepy heads. Wrapped together in their beds.

POST-CHORUS 2

C F Bb A (x2)

BRIDGE

G A7 D F#m Bm B2/A

2 2 2 2 [A4/9-]8
I used to walk with someone else
I didn’t seem to notice sights and sounds of the lonely street

POST-CHORUS 3

C F Bb A (x2)
I used to talk with someone else
Now the only answers are the calls of the night

SOLO XYLOPHONE
Gm Bb7 E Am Am7 (x2)

VERSE 3

Am C F# Bm Bm7 (x2)
Look at that alley cat, it’s winding home to rest, alone
Half-past four and daylight shows itself once more

OUTRO

Am B (x3) Am B
Walking all alone
Walking all alone

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CHORDS
C 33555x
D x00232
D x5423x
Dm x00231
Dm7 x00211
E 022100

F#m x4422x
Gm 35533x
A x02220
A7 x02020
Am x02210
Am7 x02010
A4 x02230
A4/9- x02330
Bb x13331
Bb7 x1313x
B x24442
Bm x24432
Bm7 x24232
Bm 75440x
B2/A 54440x

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This tab is based on a transcription by Christof Munoz, available at:
Gentle Giant’s official site.

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|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6h8----------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6---------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8-------|

Main riff: ver II – 5 times

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|-----------------------------8--------------------------------------8~--|
|-----------------------------8-10p8-10-----------------------------8~--|
|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----------------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6--------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8------|

Play power chords for verse:
Everyday they clock me, everyday is just the same.
And the people I see, wear the same face as me.
As I turn the handle, time goes slowly by.
Fm Dm Gm (lo octave) F Gm Gm (hi octave) F Gm
Is that all that there is until the day that I die?

Main riff: ver II

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|-----------------------------8--------------------------------------8~--|
|----------------------------8--------------------------------------8~-|
|----------------------------8-10p8-10-----------------------------8~-|
|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----------------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6--------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8------|

All through the night.
Through the night.
All through the night.
I can’t believe I’m free til morning.
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/gentle_giant/all_through_the_night_tab.html )
If I wipe the dirt and sweat, Then I find that more’s still there.
If the summer don’t get you, Then the winter always will.
Try not to think, it never gets nowhere.
Fm Dm Gm (lo oct.) F Gm Gm (hi oct.) F Gm
But at least everyday ends, and the night’s always there.

Main riff: ver II – 3 times

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|-----------------------------8-10p8-10-----------------------------8~--|
|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----------------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6--------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8------|

All through the night.
Through the night.
All through the night.
I can’t believe I’m free til morning.

Main riff: ver III

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|----------------------------8----------------------------------12--10--12~-|
|----------------------------8-10p8-10---------------5--3--5~--12--10--12~-|
|-----6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----------------6-----8--5--3--5~--10---8--10~-|
|-6h8---6h8---6h8------------------------6h8---6h8----3--1--3~--------------|

Main riff: ver I

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|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6h8----------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6---------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8-------|

Main riff: ver II – 8 times

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|-----------------------------8--------------------------------------8~--|
|-----------------------------8-10p8-10-----------------------------8~--|
|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----------------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6--------|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8------------------------6h8---6h8---6h8----------8------|

All through the night.
Through the night.
All through the night.
I can’t believe I’m free til morning.

End:

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|------6-----8-----8(9)-8p6-8-----|
|--6h8---6h8---6h8----------------|
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7~ hold (longer than other notes)
7h9 hammer-on
9p7 pull-off
7(9) bend
(9)7 release
(9)r release