FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION: GOOD ADVICES

Keep your hat on your head.  Has there ever been better advice?  Yes.  However, it seems symbolic a few songs from now when Stipe picks up a hat he put down and fastens it securely back on his head in 'These Days.'  It's strange to be at the end of Fables.  'Wendell Gee' is a pretty easy song and just for kicks I'm going to do 'When I Was Young,' which is a take on a blues riff, so we're almost at Pageant.  How exciting!
  This song is kind of a mash up of advice and, surprise, another travel song.  Could the character in this song be related to the one in Auctioneer?  They both seem like unseemly people.  In Auctioneer there is 'another wife' and here it would be nice to see someone from 'a long way away.'  Hardly friendly and trustworthy people.  And not trusting of strangers either.  There is a lot of suspicion here.  Plus. you'll forget someones name by the end of the day?  How brutal. 
  The most difficult part of this transcription was Mike Mills' background in the last verse.  It's almost impenetrable on the album, but thank you FOTR Deluxe edition.  In the demo version the backing vocals are very clear. 

GOOD ADVICES
When you greet a stranger, look at his shoes
Keep your money in your shoes, put your trouble behind
When you greet a stranger, look at her hands
Keep your money in your hands, put your travel behind

Who are you going to call for?
What do you have to say?
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away

At the end of the day, I’ll forget your name
I’d like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
When you greet a stranger, look at his shoes
Keep your memories in your shoes, put your travel behind

Who are you going to call for?
What do you have to say?
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away

At the end of the day, when there are no friends
When there are no lovers
(When you greet a stranger)
Who are you going to call for?
(Ignore their shoes)
What do you have to change?
(Keep your memories on your shoes, keep your trouble behind)
Familiar face, foreign place
I’ll forget your name
I’d like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away

Who are you going to call for?
What do you have to say?
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away


This one was tricky.  There are definitely at least two guitars and one is picking quite a bit.  What I have here sounds correct with one guitar, but you could make a case for a different form of D in the verse and perhaps something different in the chorus besides the E to A change that I have.  That said, the chords are correct.  I also find that the C#m to Bm slide is one of my favorite moments for Buck.  It's just fun to play.  It's also nice how he can remove the bar from the A chord in the chorus and get a great new sound out of it.  One of my favorite songs to play.

GOOD ADVICES

Verse

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A|-7---5---0-----------------------|

E|-0---0---0-----------------------|

Chorus

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E|----------------------5---------0---------0---0---0---0-|

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B|---0----0-------------5--5--5---0--0--0---5--|

G|-2--2>4--4>6-6-7h-7-0-6---6--6--6---6--6--6--|

D|----------------------7---------7---------7--|

A|----------------------7---------7---------7--|

E|----------------------5---------0---------5--|

Bridge

“At the end of the day … “

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2^nd Guitar Under Last Verse

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-BW