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Silver Bell

(transcribed from an acoustic performance on Acoustic Cafe on 2-12-96)


Standard tuning

Capo:  3


E:     022100
C:     X32010
G:     320003
D:     XX0232
A:     X02220
C2:    X35553 (or X32010 if that's too hard)
D2:    X57775 (or XX0232)


Intro and fills between verses:


              E                             E
[----------------------------][----------------------------]
[----------------------------][----------------------------]
[-1--1--1--1----1--1--1--1---][-1--1--1--1----1--1--1--1---]
[-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--][-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--]
[-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--][-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--]
[-0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0---][-0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0---]


    C     G                    E
-------------------------][--0--0----0--]
-------------------------][--0--0----0--]
-------------------------][--1--1----1--]
--2--2---0--0------------][--2--2----2--]
--3--3---2--2---2--2--2--][--2--2----2--]
----------------3--3--3--][--0--0----0--]




E                         C                G           E
Silver Bell, Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel


         E                             C         G          E
You were traveling and there you fell, down on a bed at the Silver Bell


E          C    G    E



E                             C             G                 E
How you been, I'm doing well, I hear you're digging a hole to hell


E                             C         G            E
How you been, I'm doing well, meet me tonight at the Silver Bell


D                     A           E
I hate to tell you, baby, this is home


D                 A             E
The wallpaper is a color called seafoam


D                             A                         G           D
Pull down the shades a little and you've got yourself a prison ce - ell


D                      G                        E
Tearing out the wicked well tonight baby at the Silver Bell


C                G               E
Yeah, that's the name of the old motel


C2                   D2              E
I did a stupid thing, I even tried


C2                            D2                   E
Feels like a hundred bees are stinging me from the inside


C2                           D2
Don't know just what to do I, don't know just who to tell


C2                        D2                          E
And so I'm telling you to meet me tonight down at the Silver Bell


E            C                G           E
Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel


D                        A             E
I hate to tell you, baby, this is home


D                  A            E
The wallpaper is a color called seafoam


D                             A                         G              D
Pull down the shades a little and you've got yourself a prison cell, ooooh, boy


D                      G                          E
Tearing out the wicked well tonight, baby, at the Silver Bell


E            C                G           E
Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel


         E                             C         G          E
You were traveling and there you fell, down on a bed at the Silver Bell