FOR MUSICIANS
-- Tabs, Chords & Tunings: Last Night Of The World (Drop F#) --
Transcribed by Steve Meger

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INTRODUCING THIS TAB

Last Night Of The World was transcribed from the Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu album.

Drop F# tuning (low EADF#BE high) Capo III.

CHORDS

A+9/E 002300
E5 0222xx (bar 2nd fret with index finger)
Bsus x24000
A6/9 x02000
C#msus x42222
C#m7sus x42000
E+9 022000
EII 022200
A6/9/E 002000



MAIN RIFF

(listen to the song to fine-tune the strumming pattern):

 A+9/E
  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
||-------------------------------|------------------------0-------|
||-------------------------------|--------0-----------------------|
||3------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||2------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||0------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||0-------0-------0-------0------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|

  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
..|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
..|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
..|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
..|-------------------------------|------------------------2-------|
..|-------------------------------|--------0-------2---------------|
..|0-------0-------0-------0---h--|4-------------------------------|

  E
  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2---------------2-------|
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2---------------2-------|
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2---------------2-------|
 |0-------0-------0-------0------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|

  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------||
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------||
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2-----------------------||
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2-----------------------||
 |---------------(2)-------------|2-------2-----------------------||
 |0-------0-------0-------0------|0-------0-------0-------0-------||
                                                          (repeat)


VERSE

I'm sipping Flor de Caña and lime juice, it's three a.m.
blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glass
the radio's playing Superchunk and the Friends of Dean Martinez

  Bsus  (approximate strumming pattern)
  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 |------------------------0------|----------------0---------------|
 |------------------------0------|----------------0---------------|
 |------------------------0------|----------------0---------------|
 |---------------(4)------4------|----------------4---------------|
 |2-------2-------2-------2------|2-------2-------2-------2-------|
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|

                              A6
  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
..|----------------0-----------0--|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
..|----------------0-----------0--|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
..|----------------0-----------0--|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
..|----------------4-----------2--|2-------2-------2-------2-------|
..|2-------2-------2-----------0--|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
..|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  E
  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2---------------2-------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2---------------2-------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2---------------2-------|
 |0-------0-------0-------0------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|

  ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   ,   .   
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2-----------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2-----------------------|
 |-------------------------------|--------2-----------------------|
 |0-------0-------0-------0------|0-------0-------0-------0-------|

Midnight it was bike tires whacking the potholes
milling humans, shivering energy glow
fusing the spaces between them with bar-throb bass and laughter



CHORUS

(similar strumming pattern):


If this were the

C#msus     C#m7sus       E+9
last       night of the world        what would I

C#msus     C#m7sus       E+9
 do                                  what would I

C#msus     C#m7sus       E+9   EII
 do            that was different    unless it was

A6/9/E                     E
 cham - pagne        with you


I learned as a child not to trust in my body
I've carried that burden through my life
but there's a day when we all have to be pried loose

Chorus

I've seen the flame of hope among the hopeless
and that was truly the biggest heartbreak of all
that was the straw that broke me open

Chorus


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