John Cale
"I only hope that one day John will be recognized as ... the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he's such a great musician. He's completely mad - but that's because he's Welsh."

Lou Reed

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John Cale Tabs

A note about the tabs

Want to play John Cale? Here are a few guitar tabs.

These tabs are not official, but are provided here solely as reference for people who are willing to have a go at these songs.

Bum notes

Any corrections? Don't hesitate, but let me know.

The tabs

VU tabs

Songs For Drella sheet music

Sheet Music?

Cale scores are pretty rare. With a bit of luck you can still find the sheet music for the Songs for Drella album.

A few nice people drafted some homemade sheet music.



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All lyrics by John Cale unless stated otherwise.
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» Special thanks

Ziggy Bell, Vincent Cariven, José Duarte, fact 1000, Fox, Pierre-Julien Grizel, Killer83Z, Danny Lloyd, Martijn Soenen, Einar Stenseng, Henk Stolker, Bert Timmermans, Dan Whitworth and Gaal Yahas for mailing me and/or posting the tabs on the John Cale mailinglist.

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