One Hundred Days

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This song consists of a rhythm guitar part (played by Chris Goss on the studio recording) and one badass lead guitar part (courtesy of Dave Catching) with a Westerny feel to it. I'm tabbing this out on an acoustic guitar, listening to a version from one of Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli's acoustic sets so these lead guitar licks represent that more than the studio. There are many little fills played on the lead guitar throughout this song. I've provided a few of these little riffs but, in my opinion, it's a lot more fun to just improvise along with the rhythm. I've left a scale down below that seems to workout alright to do this.

Standard Tuning

These below are the only two chords in the song and they are repeated over and over and over again.

 Rhythm Guitar
  Bm                    G
|--------------------|---------------------|
|--------------------|---------------------|
|-4~--4-4~--4~--4-4~-|---------------------|
|-4~--4-4~--4~--4-4~-|--5~--5-5~--5~--5-5~-|
|-2~--2-2~--2~--2-2~-|--5~--5-5~--5~--5-5~-|
|--------------------|--3~--3-3~--3~--3-3~-|
  d   u d   d   u d     d   u d   d   u d

I like to start out playing the song with the chords above and then jump into this below. A good time to do this is when "one day a ship comes in" is sang for the second time, almost a minute into the song.

  Bm                             G
|-----------------------------|------------------------------|
|-3~---3-3~---3-3~---3-3~---3-|--3~---3-3~---3-3~---3-3~---3-|
|-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-|--4~---4-4~---4-4~---4-4~---4-|
|-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-4~-x-4-|--5~-x-5-5~-x-5-5~-x-5-5~-x-5-|
|-2~-x---2~-x---2~-x---2~-x---|--5~-x---5~-x---5~-x---5~-x---|
|-----------------------------|--3~-x---3~-x---3~-x---3~-x---|
  d  d u d  d u d  d u d  d u    d  d u d  d u d  d u d  d u

 Lead Guitar Riffs
|---2~--------------|
|-3-----5--3--5-----|
|----------------4~-|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|

|-2-2-2------------|
|-------5--3--5----|
|----------------4-|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|

|---2~-----------------|
|-3-----5--3h5---------|
|--------------3b4r3h4-|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|

[/pre]

|----------|
|-----3-0~-|
|-2h4------|
|----------|
|----------|
|----------|

|-5p3----------|
|-----5-3b4r3~-|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|

The numbers at the top of the diagram are the fret numbers starting with "0", which is open-string. The "o" markings are the playable notes for this scale.

 C Lydian Scale
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...
E |o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|
B |o|o|-|o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|
G |o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|-|o|o|
D |o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|
A |o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|
E |o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|o|-|o|-|o|

And finally...

Bm
When the willow bends towards the end of day
    G
And twilight falls again
       Bm
To the funny sound that a blackbird makes
G
Twilight falls again
   Bm
As no good reason remains, I'll do the same
            G
Thinking of you
    Bm                       G                  
One day a ship comes in, one day a ship comes in
       Bm
But I can't say how or when
      G                                   Bm
But I know somewhere a ship comes in everyday
    
There is no morphine, I'm only sleeping
            G
There is no crime to dreams like this
              Bm
And if you could take something with you
            G
It would be bright