Modest Mouse
Paper Thin Walls
Tab By Dan Reynolds
bankrupt@gladstone.uoregon.edu
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~bankrupt



A rough estimation of how the first A chord is strummed; the best way to do this is to make an A barre chord on the top four strings and to use your pinky to alternate between the 5th and 7th frets on the B string.

  A
 
--5---5---5-5---5---5---5-5---5---5---5-5---5---5---5-5--
--5---5---7-7---5---5---7-5---5---5---7-7---5---5---7-5--
--6---6---6-6---6---6---6-6---6---6---6-6---6---6---6-6--
--7---7---7-7---7---7---7-7---7---7---7-7---7---7---7-7--
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The song:

A D
A D

A                                                          D
These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound.

A                                                                    D
Everyone's a voyeur as they're watching me watch them watch me right now.
They're shaking hands they're ahaking in their shoes oh lord donn't shake me down.
Everyone wants two of them and half of everyone else is around.
It's been agreed the whole world stinks so no one's taking showers anymore.



Switch to simply strumming the A chord:


A                                   D
Laugh hard--it's a long ways to the bank

A                             D
I can't be blamed for nothing anymore.

A                                       D
It's been a long time since you've been around.

A                                   D
Laugh hard--it's a long ways to the bank


A  D  Bm Cm

A               D                Bm                  Cm
Tow the line to tax the time you know that you don't owe.

A            D              Bm            Cm
I can't be a fool for every one that I don't know.



And repeat the whole damn thing.


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PAPER THIN WALLS  as on M&A ~tabbed by lee walker
VERSE
E---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B------7-7--7-----------------7-7----7--------------------------------|
G--------------9--6-7-6------------------9---6-7-6-----7-7-7-7-7------|
D-7-7--------------------7-7---------------------------5-5-5-5-5------|
A------------------------------------------------------5-5-5-5-5------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------|
Listen to cd to get strumming pattern

BRIDGE  (when he sings  "laugh hard.")
E-------------|
B-------------|
G---6h7---9---|
D-------------|
A-------------|
E-------------|

CHORUS
E-------------------|
B-------------------|
G---9---7---4---5---|
D---9---7---4---5---|
A---7---5---2---3---|
E-------------------|


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Modest Mouse
Paper Thin Walls
Tab By Denny Naffziger
Twasgood@hotmail.com


The correction to the first part of Paper Thin Walls.
Use the pinky to alternate the 7th fret on the strings b&g



--x-x-x--x-x--x-x-x-x-x----------------------------------
--5-5-7--7-7--7-7-7-5-5----------------------------------
--6-6-6--6-6--6-6-6-7-6---repeat this once more----------
--7-7-7--7-7--7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------
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                          THEN

--x-x-x--x-x-x-x--x-x-x--xx------------------------------
--7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7--77------------------------------
--7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7--77-------that is about it-------
--7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7--77--just mess around and listen-
--5-5-5--5-5-5-5--5-5-5--55------------------------------
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