/*      Hotel California
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           The Eagles

   THIS HAS THE INTRO, STUFF IN BETWEEN, AND THE END INSTUMENTAL!

   This is the "Hotel California" from Eagles, the Very Best Of. 
 
   I wrote this song in intervals of about 3 seconds from my ear.
   After the CD played 3 notes, 
   I paused it and wrote them down as best as I could.

   This was my first song I wrote from ear, and it took about six months.
   About twenty to thirty seconds from the song's end 
   and about a month or two from when I started, I quit 
   because I got sick of tabbing it and the song itself.
   I picked it up a few months later, though because I figured that since 
   I was so close to being done, I figured that I might as well finish.

   To get a real idea how fast and when to 
   play each note, listen to the CD


   NORMAL TUNING (EADGBE)

;Tabbed by: Wes Jackson
;Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Corrections?:
;E-mail: wormhole999@aol.com (write a subject if you e-mail, please)
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"~" means hold note for 1 extra count
"~~" means hold note for two extra counts


"-2/4-" means play 2, then slide to 4 
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Sometimes you may need to slide. 


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   6/22/04

              
              
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        **Play this while he sings**

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On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas,
rising uo through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
I had to stop for the night                                   

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There she stood in the doorway,
        

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        **Or play:**
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I heard the mission bell
        
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And I was thinking to myself,   
this could be 
        
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heaven or this could be hell
        
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Then she lit up a candle                        

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And showed me the way

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orridor,
        
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I thought I heard them say,

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Welcome to the

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Such a lovely place (soft echo)

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Such a lovely 

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face

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Any time of ye

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it here 

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rcedes Benz

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She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys

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e my wine

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ere since 1969

                                                

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Welcome to the Hotel California

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They livin' it up at the Hotel California
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(Play part A)
Mirrors on the ceiling
The pink champagne on ice
And she said, 
we are all just visitors here,
of our own device
And in the masters chambers
they gathered for the feast
they stab it their steely knives
but they just cant kill the beast*


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you can check out any time you like  
but you can never leave 

        INSTRUMENTAL SOLO 
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        (where I quit tabbing before finishing it 5 months later!)

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        **repeat part B and fade**

   12/11/04


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