For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Song: For what it's worth (Stop, hey what's that sound)
Artist: The Buffalo Springfield
Composer: Stephen Stills
Tabbed by DJ 1st June 2020
To hear the track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
FINE TUNING: The original album and single version
sounds flat of standard tuning. Maybe the backing
tracks were slowed down intentionally before adding
the vocals, or just mixed at different studios with
uncalibrated tape decks, recorded at Columbia Studios,
but possibly mixed at Atlantic's.
To match the original recording you need to de-tune
your strings, use a cromatic tuner for reference,
lower your strings by approx. minus 45 cents below
standard pitch. Live concert versions may be more in
standard pitch to play along with, so no detuning
should be necessary then.
Don't use TV studio appearances though, they were
usually mimed to the original studio track.
Linking Riff:
(Guitar 1)
e |--0--------
B |--0--------
G |--1--------
D |--2-----2--
A |--2--/4----
E |--0--------
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4-2--|--0--/4-
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2-------| note up
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(Guitar 2)
(
e |--*12------
B |-----------
G |-----------
D |------(2)--
A |-----------
E |---0-------
(
-|--*7--------
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-|-------(2)--
-|---0--------
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-| * = Play as
-| harmonic notes
-| ( ) = Optional
-| additional note
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= 022100 = x02020 = xx0232
= x02220 = 012020
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[Riff]
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/ :||[x2]
[Verse 1]
There's so
mething happen
ing here,
What it is ain
't exactly cle
ar,
There's a man
with a gun ove
r there,
A -telling me
I got to be -
ware
[Chorus]
Think it's tim
e we stopped!
Children, what
's that sound?
Everybody look
what's going
down!
[Riff]
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/ | / / /
/ :|| [x2]
[Verse 2]
There's ba
ttle lines bei
ng drawn,
Nobody's right
if everybody'
s wrong,
Young peopl
e speaking the
ir minds,
A - getting so
much resistan
ce from be - h
ind
[Chorus]
It's time we s
topped! Hey,
what's that so
und?
Everybody look
what's going
down!
[Riff]
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/ | / / /
/ :|| [x2]
[Verse 3]
What a fiel
d day for the
heat,
(Oo, oo...)
A thousand p
eople in the s
treet,
(...oo------------------! Oo, oo...)
Singing songs
and a - carryi
ng signs,
(...oo---------------! Oo, oo...)
Mostly say hoo
ray for our si
de
(...oo-----
---------! Oo
, oo!)
[Chorus]
It's time we s
topped! Hey,
what's that so
und?
Everybody look
what's going
down!
[Riff]
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/ | / / /
/ :|| [x2]
Paranoia strik
es deep,
Into your life
it will creep
,
It starts when
you're always
a - fraid,
Step out of li
ne the man com
e and take you
a - way
[Chorus]
We better stop
! Hey, what's
that sound?
Everybody look
what's going.
..
We better stop
! Hey, what's
that sound?
Everybody look
what's going.
..
We better stop
now! What's
that sound?
Everybody look
what's going.
..
We better stop
! Childen, wh
at's that soun
d?
Everybody look
what's going
down!
[Riff - End on an E]
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t]