War Begun

[Angry Ewok]

War Begun

C#7           F#                          B
stolen as the war begun, At his time your soul is my  

C#7     F#                           B
one. i belong to a A race of robots, drownin out my

C#7      F#                           B
one.   anytime your A war gets out of hand i'll take it on.  

C#7           F#                           B
stolen as the wars begun, A this time your soul is my one.  
 
A#m      Fm        F#                       C#7
I'D MOVE ON, but i know you'll need me some day.

A#m      Fm        F#                       C#7
I'D roll ON, but i know you'll need me some day.
 
repeat verse, and end alternating between C#7 and F#


The Solo

[size=13]E-----I------------I----------I--------I-----------------
B---6~I--2h4-6b--4-I-6-7---9-I--10--9--I-9-10-12-10-9-10-9
G-----I------------I----------I--------I-------------------
D-----I------------I----------I--------I------------------
A-----I------------I----------I--------I-------------------
E-----I------------I----------I--------I-------------------[/size]

          Fading and improvisation
 
[size=13]E----------------I--------------I-------------------------
B--7-9-10-9-7-9-7I-6~-------9-10-I-12---14--16--14---------
G----------------I--------------I------------------------
D----------------I--------------I-------------------------
A----------------I--------------I-------------------------
E----------------I--------------I-------------------------[/size]

*Thanks to Corey H*

[NJ2KY]

Hey I always play this with an A in the verse progression so its C#7 F# A B - below is how i would go through the verses.  May be wrong may be right but its a different way to play.  The rest of the tab is pretty accurate - I play the solo different, but i know that my way isn't 100% right so what can be done.  Enjoy

C#7               F#                   A              B
stolen as the war begun, this time your soul is my  
 
C#7     F#               A                     B
one. i belong to a race of robots, drownin out my
 
C#7          F#              A                        B
one.   anytime your war gets out of hand i'll take it on.  

[tragik]

can someone please define C#7 and F#? I can't seem to figure out the exact fingering ..

[tomEisenbraun]

C#7 - x46464

F# - 244322

the way this works, looks at the strings like this:

EADGBe

except with a fret number where each one of those strings falls. and there you have it.

(a C chord is x32010...does it make sense? also, an x is a string not played)

[tomEisenbraun]

and try this:

Capo IV
(all chord positions and shapes relative to capo
i.e. A7 is really C#7, but is an A7 chord in relation to the capo)

A7 - x02020
D9maj7 - xx0220
Fmaj7' - 133200
G6 - 355400

then for that bridge bit (i'd roll on but i know you'd need me some day)

F#m -  244222
C#m - 466544
D - xx0232
A - x02220

repeating the D and A for a couple bars as he's saying "someday"...

[dwight]

I'm pretty certain Jim doesn't use a capo when performing War Begun

[aMD]

This song and many others are located at the official unofficial My Morning Jacket guitar tabs and chords site:
 
http://mmjtabs.50megs.com/

[blake]

One other thing:

I think he puts a finger on the b string on the 4th fret when doing the upstroke on the F# and the A... if you try that it sounds just like how he does it, but only on that upstroke, and only those 2 chords.

[edub]

Love this song. Thanks

[HEYARM]

thanks

[Grateful Chabo]

probably my personal favorite live..thanks man

[abstraction]

Okay to my ears and eyes, these are all close but not correct.  This is what I'm hearing and seeing (watching live vids)

The F#7->Fmaj6 and the A(b5)->A are grace notes basically, that follow the vocal lines.  For example, for the first chord change, you'd fret

XX434X  (F#maj6 w/o the root, which the bass is playing) and hammer on the 7th, XX436X (F#7)



C#7          (F#7)  F#maj6   (A(b5)) A       B
stolen as the war begun, This time your soul is my 

C#7     (F#7)  Fmaj6 (A(b5)) A       B
one. I belong to a A race of robots, drownin out my

C#7      (F#7)  Fmaj6 (A(b5)) A       B             
one.   anytime your  war gets out of hand i'll take it on. 

C#7      (F#7)  Fmaj6 (A(b5)) A       B     
stolen as the wars begun, A this time your soul is my one. 
 
A#m      F        F#maj7                    C#5
I'D MOVE ON, but i know you'll need me some day.

A#m      F        F#maj7                    C#5
I'D roll ON, but i know you'll need me some day.
 
repeat verse, and end alternating between C#5 and F#maj7