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Pinball Wizard by The Who - Guitar Chords

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            This is my first tab, so it's almost certainly filled with mistakes. Actually to be honest, 
I'm only seven years old and just found dad's laptop open on the coffee table. I started mashing 
the keyboard with my palm and this is what came out. Neat eh! Anyway, good luck with it.

[Guitar]
(clean electric or acoustic)
(for the verse chords play a 16th note strum, using triads chords using just the b, g and d 
strings. Start at the 7th fret.)

Bsus4 - B x 4

Bsus4                             B                            Asus4
Ever since I was a young boy I've played the silver ball. From Soho down to
 
           A                                Gsus4        
Brighton I must have played them all. But I ain't seen nothin like him in 

G                       F#sus4                  F# (single strum)     B B  A  D  E E  x2 
any amusement hall that deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


   Bsus4                        B                    Asus4
He stands like a statue becomes part of the machine. Feeling all the bumpers 

A                     Gsus4                  G                         F#sus4
always playing clean. Plays by intuition the digit counters fall. That deaf 

                   F# (single strum)     B B  A  D E E  x2 
dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


       E   F#   B            E      F#    B       E   F#    B           G
He's a pin-ball wizard there has to be a twist. A pin-ball wizard's got such 

         D
a supple wrist


D          Cadd9 G/E G                      D          Cadd9 G/E   G   
How do you think he  does it? (I dont know) What makes him   so    good?


Bsus4                           B                        Asus4           
Ain't got no distractions, cant hear no buzzes and bells don't see no lights a 

        A                        Gsus4                     G       
flashin plays by sense of smell. Always gets a replay, you never see him fall 

     F#sus4                   F# (single strum)     B B  A  D  E E  x2
that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


  E       F# B       E     F#    B        E  F#   B         G                D
I thought I  was the Bally table king but I  just handed my pinball crown to him.


Bsus4 - B x4


     Bsus4                 B                        Asus4
Even on my favourite table he can beat my best. His disciples lead him in 

     A                              Gsus4                 G
and he just does the rest. He's got crazy flipper fingers never seen him fall 

    F#sus4                    F# (single strum)     B B  A  D  E E  x2
that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!


[Guitar 2]
(overdriven electric)
(G2 is always playing 5ths (just the top two or three strings of a minor shape barre chord, 
muting everything else) so when you read B, play B5 etc. G1 is played pretty sparsely. Through 
the verses it's all single chords - don't go all Mumford and Sons and start busily strumming!


B x 2

B                                                              A
Ever since I was a young boy I've played the silver ball. From Soho down to 

                                            G        
Brighton I must have played them all. But I ain't seen nothin like him in 

                         F#                      F#                B B  A  D  E E  x2
any amusement hall. That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


   B                                                  A
He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine. Feeling all the bumpers 

                      G                                                F#
always playing clean. Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall that deaf, 

                   F#                    B B  A  D  E E  x2 
dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


       E   F#   B            E      F#    B       E   F#    B           G
He's a pin-ball wizard there has to be a twist. A pin-ball wizard's got such 

         D
a supple wrist.


D D        C     B   G                       D D        C     B     G   
How do you think he  does it? (I don't know) What makes him   so    good?


B                                                       A           
Ain't got no distractions cant hear no buzzes and bells don't see no lights a 

                                 G       
flashin plays by sense of smell. Always gets a replay you never see him fall 

     F#                       F#                    B B  A  D  E E  x2
that deaf  dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!


E       F# B       E     F#    B        E  F#   B         G                D
thought I  was the Bally table king but I  just handed my pinball crown to him.


B x4


     B                                              A
Even on my favourite table he can beat my best his disciples lead him in 

                                   G
and he just does the rest he's got crazy flipper fingers never seen him fall 

    F#                       F#                    B B  A  D  E E  x2
that deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pin-ball!
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