Biography:
Fiction Family is a musical collaboration between Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins. The duo released their self-titled, full-length album on January 20, 2009. Fiction Family originally went by the name, "The Real SeanJon," a name jokingly chosen in the hopes that Sean "Sean John" Combs would sue them.
According to a blog post on Watkins' website, they started the collaboration in 2005, writing songs together.
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Now, before you get started I'd like you to check out these videos:
1) This guys cover is great. He plays it differently than this tab, but it's what I
it off of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfGRZpsCmlI
2) This is me playing the uke to these chords and then I play the acoustic with these chords.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rNoG31Lbs
Tab:
Chords used:
C C7 F G# A2 Fm Dsus D F* Fm*
e----0-----0----1---4---x---1---3---2---1---1---------------|
B----1-----1----1---4---x---1---3---3---1---1---------------|
G----0-----3----2---3---2---1---2---2---2---1---------------|
D----2-----2----3---6---2---3---0---0---3---3---------------|
A----3-----3----3---6---0---3---x---x---0---0---------------|
E----x-----x----1---4---x---1---x---x---x---x---------------|
Fiction Family
"Look For Me Baby"
Standard Tuning
Verse 1 (played by just the uke)
C C7
What you hold dear starts to disappear
F G#
you can tell what you trust by the things that you feared
C A2-F G C
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long gone
Verse 2 (Rest of the banf comes in)
C C7
I warned you, you white washed tunes
F G#
free from the wrath, as all men do
C A2-F G C C7
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long gone
F
everybody knows
Fm
everybody knows
C A2
that i'm the fight that can only end in bones
Dsus D
you can say i show to go
G
or that i only go to shows
Woah!
(Same as verse 1)
you can give my regards to your house of cards
your dead eye stars and your pharisee shards
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long (x3)
After the last line is sung there's a little walk down bit. The chords are:
C C C7 C7 F* F* Fm* Fm* G C
Enjoy!
Sam
1) This guys cover is great. He plays it differently than this tab, but it's what I
it off of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfGRZpsCmlI
2) This is me playing the uke to these chords and then I play the acoustic with these chords.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rNoG31Lbs
Tab:
Chords used:
C C7 F G# A2 Fm Dsus D F* Fm*
e----0-----0----1---4---x---1---3---2---1---1---------------|
B----1-----1----1---4---x---1---3---3---1---1---------------|
G----0-----3----2---3---2---1---2---2---2---1---------------|
D----2-----2----3---6---2---3---0---0---3---3---------------|
A----3-----3----3---6---0---3---x---x---0---0---------------|
E----x-----x----1---4---x---1---x---x---x---x---------------|
Fiction Family
"Look For Me Baby"
Standard Tuning
Verse 1 (played by just the uke)
C C7
What you hold dear starts to disappear
F G#
you can tell what you trust by the things that you feared
C A2-F G C
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long gone
Verse 2 (Rest of the banf comes in)
C C7
I warned you, you white washed tunes
F G#
free from the wrath, as all men do
C A2-F G C C7
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long gone
F
everybody knows
Fm
everybody knows
C A2
that i'm the fight that can only end in bones
Dsus D
you can say i show to go
G
or that i only go to shows
Woah!
(Same as verse 1)
you can give my regards to your house of cards
your dead eye stars and your pharisee shards
you can look for me baby but baby i'll be long (x3)
After the last line is sung there's a little walk down bit. The chords are:
C C C7 C7 F* F* Fm* Fm* G C
Enjoy!
Sam
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