Jethro Tull: Thick as a brick. Track 1, beginning to 3:02
Chords/Tab: H�kan Mattsson

This tab is a bit simplified, meaning that I haven't tabbed every little
strumming and lift of fingers. In my opinion it's easier to read in this
way, when only the more difficult parts are tabbed.

In some places I have indicated where there are significant sus2's and sus4's
with "sus2/4".

I have seen many suggestions on how these first minutes are played, and this
version do not differ in any significant way from most of the others, but
some. And in my opinion it's easier to follow than many others I have seen.
(I hope I'm not the only one thinking so! :-)

Thanks to Paco Jimenez for one riff, and to Sigurd Andre Lund from Norway,
whose old tab that I found have helped me a lot.

When Ian plays the intro he shapes a D, G and then a D at the 5th fret.
He uses his pinky for the 4th and 7th fret on the A string.

Capo on 3:rd fret

   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
   | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <- triplets
   D                 G     D at 5th fret
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------------------3-3-3|-----------------------|
|----2-----2-------0-0-0|----5-----5-----------0|   twice
|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|--0-----0-------0---0--|
|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|0-----7-----0-5---3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
   ^     ^     ^ ^         ^     ^     ^ ^   ^     <- accent

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   D (strummed)           Am (strummed)
|2----------------------|0----------------------|
|3----------------------|1----------------------|
|2----------------------|2----------------------|
|0----------------------|2----------------------|
|-----------------------|0-----------0-2--------|
|-----------------------|------------------3----|

1) Really        don't   mind if you sit this one
2) My words but   a   whisper - your deafness a
3) I   may   make you   feel but I can't make you
4) Your sperm's in the gutter - your love's in the

G G
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------------------3-3-3|------------------3-3-3|
|----2-----2-------0-0-0|----2-----2-------0-0-0|
|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|
|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|

1) out.          (up)
2) SHOUT.        (up)
3) think.        (up)
4) sink.

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             G               A          D sus2/4
   So   you ride yourselves over the fields
   and you make all your    animal    deals
   and your wise men don't know how it feels...   (continue below)

A sus2/4
... to be thick as a

|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------------------3-3-3|------------------3-3-3|
|----2-----2-------0-0-0|----2-----2-------0-0-0|
|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|
|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|

brick.

G G
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------------------3-3-3|------------------3-3-3|
|----2-----2-------0-0-0|----2-----2-------0-0-0|
|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0|--0-----0-------0-0-0-0| (same as above)
|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|0-----4-----0-2---2-2-2|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|

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D (strummed) Am (strummed)
|2----------------------|0----------------------| (not aligned with lyrics)
|3----------------------|1----------------------|
|2----------------------|2----------------------|
|0----------------------|2----------------------|
|-----------------------|0-----------0-2--------|
|-----------------------|------------------3----|

1) And the sand-castle virtues are all swept
2) In the tidal destruction, the moral
3) The elastic retreat rings the close of
4) As the last wave uncovers the newfangled

1) away.         (up)
2) melee.        (up)
3) play.         (up)
4) way.

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             G               A          D sus2/4
   But your new shoes are worn at the heels
   and your suntan   does   rapidly     peel
   and your wise men don't know how it feels...   (continue below)

A sus2/4
... to be thick as a

brick.

============================================================================

|-----------------(0-0-0)-----------------------|
|------------------6-6-6|-----------------------|
|----5-----5-------5-5-5|----5-----5-----0------|
|--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)--0-----0-----0--------|
|0-----7-----0-5--------|0-----7-----5-----3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
parenthesis optional

============================================================================
                                             |-----------|
                                             |-----------|
                                             |-----------|
                                             |0-2--------|
                                             |----0-2----|
D                      Am C            Em   |--------0-2|
And the love that I feel is so far away:
G                        Bm         D   F#    ( <- in these 3 last chords,
I'm a bad dream that I just had todaaaaay -   lift finger from the e string
G                     A sus2/4                 repeatedly)
- and you shake your head and say it's a

shame.

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|-----------------(0-0-0)-----------------(0-0-0)
|------------------6-6-6|------------------6-6-6|
|----5-----5-------5-5-5|----5-----5-------5-5-5|
|--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)--0-----0-------5(0-0-0)
|0-----7-----0-5--------|0-----7-----0-5--------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
parenthesis optional

============================================================================

|-----------------(0-0-0)-----------------(0-0-0)
|------------------6-6-6|------------------6-6-6|
|----5-----5-------5-5-5|----5-----5-------5-5-5| (same as above)
|--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)
|0-----7-----0-5--------|0-----7-----0-5--------| (Not aligned with lyrics)
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
parenthesis optional

Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.
Draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth.
Spin me down the long ages: let them sing the song.

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|-----------------(0-0-0)-----------------(0-0-0)
|------------------6-6-6|------------------6-6-6|
|----5-----5-------5-5-5|----5-----5-------5-5-5| (same as above)
|--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)--0-----0-------0(0-0-0)
|0-----7-----0-5--------|0-----7-----0-5--------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
parenthesis optional

F strum D strum Dsus2
|5---5-----5------2--
|6----6----6------3--
|5-----5---5------2--
|0------0--0------0--
|--------------------
|--------------------

Time: 3:02

Am D G, Am D G...