Port Of Souls

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  • Tuning: Standard
     
    Port of Souls is one of my favourite ‘late era’ Gun Club songs. It’s pretty
  • straightforward too! It’s easiest to play all the rhythm guitar using a standard e-
    major shape barre-chord.
    I’ve lifted the lyrics from Jeffrey-Lee’s autobiography ‘Go Tell the Mountain’.
  •  
    Intro:
    e|-0-0-0--0-0--0-0--------------------------------------------------------|
  • B|-0--0----0----0---------------------------------------------------------|
    G|-1-----------------X2---------------------------------------------------|
    D|-2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
  • A|-2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|-0----------------------------------------------------------------------|
     
  • A E G E
    Run Molly run, your hills are on fire
    A E G E
  • Why don’t you go downtown, and get it on the wire?
     
    Bridge: BB, F#F#, G#G#
  •  
    A E G E
    Now, easy street, can sure get you laid
  • A E G E
    Doesn’t matter what you’ve done, and you get paid
    EE, EE E B C#
  • In the Port of Souls
    A E B C#C# B AAA
    In the Port of Souls
  •  
    Lead break over chorus:
     
  • Rhythm gtr: E E E A A A E E E C# A E
    e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  • G|--------7—----------------7-----------------7—--------------------------|
    D|----7-9---------------7-9---7-7-7-------7-9---------------7----------7--|
    A|7-9-------7-7-7---7-9---------------7-9-------7-7-7---7-9---9-7-6------7|
  • E|-------------------------------------------------------------------9----|
     
    B C#A E B A
  • e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  • D|--------7---9-7---------------------------------------------------------|
    A|7-7-6-----7-------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|------9-----------------------------------------------------------------|
  •  
    The above fits over these lines:
    EEE AAA
  • Too much ocean, too much sea
    EEE C# A E
    It is no wonder that you buried me
  • B C# A E B A (Hold ‘A’ into next verse)
    But its alright
    A E G E
  • Rose Connally don’t go in the field
    A E G E
    You might find something underneath, underneath what is real
  •  
    Bridge: BB, F#F#, G#G#
     
  • A E G E
    Now stop pulling an eyelash, only you that I have
    A E G E
  • And it makes me so tired, and this could be the end
     
    Repeat chorus
  •  
    There’s a bunch of feedback and stuff for half a verse, then…
    Last half-verse:
  •  
    A E G E
    Now don’t call John Henry, just kiss him goodbye
  • A E G E
    It don’t matter anyway, so simply goodbye
     
  • Repeat chorus
     
    Second part of chorus repeats several times with different lyrics:
  •  
    1
    I didn’t get lonely dear,
  • I didn’t have a chance to see, but its alright
     
    2
  • You don’t have to say goodbye
    No! no
    But its alright
  •  
    And different lead breaks:
     
  • Rhythm gtr: E E E A A A E E E
    e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    B|b10-10-8------------b10-10-8---8-10-10-10—-b10-10-8--------------7-10-7-|
  • G|---------9-7-9-9-9-----------9----------------------9-7-9-9-9--9--------|
    D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  • E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     
    C# A E C# A E B A
  • e|------------------------7-----------------------------------------------|
    B|------10-----------10-----10--------------------------------------------|
    G|9-8-6----9-9-9-8-6----9-------------------------------------------------|
  • D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  •  
    b = bend
     
  • Last time round he’s just throttling the life out of the b string on the 16th fret
    with lots of bend
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