Tab: Calling You Out


“Calling You Out” isn’t necessarily the easiest song to learn, but once you know the chords, you’ll find that it’s the easiest song to play.

Like much of Here Goes Nothing, “Calling You Out” is written in the key of E, and is a typical show of my love of drone chords. I’ve tabbed it below as a straight key-of-E song (because the actual names of the chords would drive us all crazy), but it should be noted that when I’m actually playing it, I’m using the drone-chord versions of these chords, leaving the 1st and 2nd strings open:

 
E—–
E 
0—–
F#m 
0——–
Abm 
0——-
A 
0——
B 
0—–
Dbm 
0—-
B—–0—–0——–0——-0——0—–0—-
G—–1—–2——–4——-6——8—–9—-
D—–2—–4——–6——-7——9—–11—
A—–2—–4——–6——-0——9—–11—
E—–0—–2——–4——-0——7—–9—-

I’m using my thumb to make the bass notes on the 6th string. Note that for the A chord, I leave the 5th and 6th string open as well — I found that you just don’t need all those fingers to make a nice jangly sound, just a good sense of the identity of the chord.

 
Calling You Out 
(Tabachneck)

 
V1. Even  
E 
as my breath goes  
A 
in and out of  
B 
time
 
Even  
E 
as my train of  
A 
thought goes off its  
B 
track
 
Even  
E 
as I medi-
A 
ate the conver-
F#m 
sation
 
Between the  
E 
angel and the  
A 
devil on my  
B 
back
 
There’s a  
F#m 
feeling that we’re both supposed to  
Abm 
be 
 
here
 
That we have  
A 
miles to go before we under-
B 
stand

Chorus

 
I’m calling you  
E 
out
 
Calling your  
F#m 
name
 
Calling in  
Abm 
prayer
 
That you’ll feel the  
A 
same
 
I’m calling you  
B 
out
 
You’re calling me  
Dbm 
names
 
But I will prove  
F#m 
worthy
 
I will prove  
B 
worthy
 
One of these  
E 
days
A 
F#m 
 
B 
woah….
E A F#m B 

V2. We’ve all got our share of sorrow in our lives

We’ve all got our failures keeping us in check
Still, the measure of the mettle of mere mortals
Is how we swim with albatrosses on our backs
We could stay here hidden safely in our hovels
Or we could face the world with bruised but open hands

(Chorus)

Bridge

 
One of these  
A 
days
E 
(x3)
 
One of these  
F#m 
days
Abm A B 

(Chorus)

©2011 Fleshyourcoldhousein Music (ASCAP), all rights reserved.

More to come,

Paul Tab


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