The Logical Song - Supertramp
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Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Song: The logical song
Artist: Supertramp
Composers: Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson
Album: Breakfast in America
Tabbed by DJ 27th Feb 2015
For Supertramp video performance of the song copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRv4xt0Fwoc
NOTE: For keyboard players and bassists use the transpose function
and set it to +1 to display the chords in the key of Eb.
[Intro riff]
e |---2--2--2-
B |---3--3--3-
G |---4--4--4-
D |---4--4--4-
A |---2--2--2-
E |-----------
-2------------
-3------------
-4------------
-4------------
-2--------0---
----0-h2------
|---2--2--2--2
|---3--3--3--3
|---4--4--4--4
|---4--4--4--4
|---2--2--2--2
|-------------
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--------0---|
--0-h2------|
[Chorus Riff a
e |-----------
B |-----------
G |---------0-
D |------2----
A |---3-------
E |-----------
rpeggios]
-----------|--
-----------|--
-------0---|--
----2------|--
-2---------|--
-----------|--
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-------0------
----2---------
-0------------
----------3---
(
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--0--h2--|
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h = hammer-on note
CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the original recorded key of Eb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= x24432 = 320033 = x22000
= 224432 = 420100 = x02010
= x04432 = xx0232 = 022000
= 320002 = xx0102 = 020000
= 242222 = xx0002 = x21202
= x02220 = x32010 = xx0432
() = 3xxxxx
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
When I was you
ng, it seemed
that life was
so wonderful,
(
A miracle, o
h, it was beau
tiful, magical
,
And all the bi
rds in the tre
es, well, they
'd be singing
so happily,
(
Oh, joyfully,
oh, playfully
watching me
[Verse 2]
But then they
sent me away,
to teach me ho
w to be sensib
le,
(
Logical, o
h, re - sponsi
ble, practical
,
And then they
showed me a wo
rld where I co
uld be so de -
pendable,
(
Oh, clinical,
oh, intel - l
ectual, cynica
l
[Chorus]
There are time
s when all the
world's a - s
#
leep
The questions
run too deep f
or such a simp
le man--------
-------,
Won't you plea
se, ...please,
tell me what
we've learnt,
I know it soun
ds ab - surd,
Please, tell m
e who I am----
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[Verse 3]
I said now, wa
tch what you s
ay, they'll be
calling you a
radical,
(
A liberal, o
h, fan - atica
l, criminal,
Oh, won't you
sign up your n
ame? We'd like
to feel you'r
e ac - ceptabl
e,
(
Re - spectabl
e, oh, pre - s
entable, a veg
etable, oh, ta
ke it, take it
!
[Verse 4 - Sax solo]
...Yeah!
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[Chorus]
But at
night, when al
l the world's
a - sleep,
The questions
run so deep fo
r such a simpl
e man---------
,
Won't you plea
se,
please, t
ell me what we
've learnt?
(Oh, won't you tell me? Umm, tell me what!)
I know it
sounds ab - su
rd-----!,
(Can you hear me? I know!) (Oh, won't you help me?)
Please, tell m
e who I am----
---------, wh
o I am--------
------,
(Tell me who I am-------------!)
Who I am------
--------, who
I am---------
------! Yeah
!
[Coda Repeats - See bottom of page for full tablature of Coda]
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[Coda - with bass notes] This nine bar pattern repeats to the fade
h = Hammer-on notes
e |-------2--2
B |-------0--0
G |-------2--2
D |-------1--1
A |----0--2--2
E |--2--------
---------|--2-
---------|--0-
---------|--2-
---------|--1-
------0--|--2-
---------|----
--------------
--------------
--------------
--0-h1--------
--------2--0--
--------------
--|-------2--2
--|-------0--0
--|-------2--2
--|-------1--1
--|----0--2--2
--|--2--------
---------|
---------|
---------|
---------|
---------|
---2--1--|
e |-----------
B |---0-------
G |---0-------
D |---2-----2-
A |---2-------
E |---0-------
---------|----
-0--0----|----
-0--0----|----
-0--0----|----
---------|----
---------|--2-
---2--2-------
---0--0-------
---2--2-------
---1--1-------
0--2--2------0
--------------
--|---2-------
--|---0-------
--|---2-------
--|---1---0-h1
--|---2-------
--|-----------
---------|
---------|
---------|
---------|
--2--0---|
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e |-------2--2
B |-------0--0
G |-------2--2
D |-------1--1
A |----0--2--2
E |--2--------
---------|--0-
---------|--0-
---------|--0-
---4--3--|--2-
---------|----
---------|----
(
-----2--------
-----3--------
-----4--------
--2--0------4-
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--|---3-------
--|---3-------
--|---4-------
--|---5-------
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