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Chords/Tabulature for
Truth Be Known

Submitted by: Michael Campbell (MA.MJC@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU)

Notes about this song:

  • From Mike: I play it with the high E string tuned down to a D (though I don't know if Neil plays it this way).
  • From Wolfgang: It was written on Rusted-Guitars that Stone Gossard (but not Neil) plays this song in an open D tuning. 
chords:
     D:  xx0777
     A:  x02222
 Asus4:  x02232
     E:  x79999
     G:  x[10][12][12][12][12]
    A*:  x0[14][14][14][14]

Intro:

     A     Asus4 A        D                              A
  D--2---2-2---2-2--|---------7---7-7---------7-7------1/2---------2--
  B--2---2h3---3p2--|---5/7-7---------9-7---------9-7--1/2---2-----2--
  G--2---2-2---2-2--|---5/7---------------7------------1/2-----2---2--
  D--2---2-2---2-2--|---0-----------------0------------1/2-------2-2--
  A--0---0-0---0-0--|----------------------------------0-----------0--
  E-----------------|-------------------------------------------------

         D                                A
  D----------------7-7-----7---7-7------1/2------------
  B----5/7---7-7-------9-7---------9-7--1/2------------
  G----5/7-7-----7----------------------1/2-----2------
  D----0--------------------------------1/2------------
  A-------------------------------------0--------------
  E----------------------------------------------------

       D
        Saw you friend working in this hotel
                        A              Asus4  A
        says he used to know you when
       D
        And you dreams lucky as they seemed
                              A            Asus4  A
        They all turned their back on him
       E                G   D   A*
        Truth be known


        Truth be known way I feel tonight
        Living in this back street town
        'bout my dreams they all seem to fade
        as soon as I put my money down
        Truth be known

    solo:  (intro riff with variations) E  G  D  A

        When the fire that once was your friend
        Burns your fingers to the bone
        And your song meets a sudden end
        Echoing through right and wrong
        Truth be known
        Truth be known
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