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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
- All I Want Is You
- Amsterdam
- Amsterdam
(alternate version) - Andalucia
- Antarctica Starts Here
- Bamboo Floor
- Barracuda
- Big White Cloud
- Biggest, Loudest, Hairest Group Of
All, The - Bring It On Up
- Broken Hearts
- Buffalo Ballet
- Cable Hogue
- Captain Hook
- Changes Made
- Charlemagne
- Child's Christmas in Wales
- Child's Christmas in Wales
(Fragments Of A Rainy Season version) - China Sea
- Chorale
- (I Keep A) Close Watch
- (I Keep A) Close Watch
(alternate version) - (I Keep A) Close Watch
(Music For A New Society version) - Coral Moon
- Dancing Undercover
- Dead or Alive
(Cale Street version) - Don't Know Why She Came
- Dying On The Vine
- Dying On The Vine
(Fragments Of A Rainy Season version) - E Is Missing
- Emily
- The Endless Plain Of Fortune
- Faces And Names
- Fear
- Forever Changed
- Gideon's Bible
- Ghost Story
- Graham Greene
- Gun
- Guts
- Half Past France
- Hallelujah
- Hanky Panky Nohow
- Hedda Gabler
- Helen of Troy
- Hello It's Me
- Hello There
- Hunt, The
- I'm Not The Loving Kind
- I Believe
- Images
- It Wasn't Me
- Leaving It Up To You
- Leaving It Up To You
(live licks) - Mr. Wilson
- Model Beirut Recital
- Modern World
- My Maria
- Nobody But You
- Old China
- Only Time Will Tell
- On A Wedding Anniversary
(Fragments Of A Rainy Season version) - Open House
- Paradise Nevada
- Paris 1919
(Fragments Of A Rainy Season version) - Please
- Ship of Fools
- Short of Time
- Ski Patrol
- Slip Away (A Warning)
- Small Town
- Starlight
- Streets Come Alive
- Style It Takes
- Sylvia Said
- Taking It All Away
- Taking Your Life In Your Hands
- The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy
- Things
- Thoughtless Kind
- Trouble With Classicists
- Verses
- Work
- You Know More Than I Know
VU tabs
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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