Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Song: The matador
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Hello cruel world
Tabbed by: DJ
29th April 2013
Live video of Gretchen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ0C2z1TmBU
CAPO: 7th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Em)
Chord shapes and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 F = 133211 G = 320003 Gsus4 = 3x0013
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[Intro]
Am F Am F
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Am F
I threw a rose to the matador, not sure who I was cheering for,
G
My aim was true, my heart was full,
F
I loved the fighter... and the bull,
Am F
I loved like only a woman can, a very complicated man,
G
I bound his wounds, I heard his cries,
F
I gave him truth, I told him lies!
[Verse 2]
Am F Am F
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
His rage is made of many things, faithless women, wedding rings,
G
Snakes and snails and alcohol,
F
His daddy's fist thrown through the wall,
Am
Ah, but he's beautiful when he's in the ring,
F
The devil howls, the angels sing,
G
Sparks fly from his fingertips,
F
And words, like birds, fly from his lips!
[Bridge]
F G
Some man is lying in the dirt, some woman's crying that he's hurt,
F
But he's not alive without the thrill,
G Gsus4 G
With - out the dance, without the kill,
F
The lights go down, the people roar,
G
They're cheering on the matador,
F G Am F
And this is how the story goes, I knew it when I threw the rose!
[Verse 3]
Am F
| / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
I come to each and every show, the woman in the second row,
G
I watch them in their ancient dance,
F
And I know I never stood a chance,
Am
'Cause while other demons prance and clown,
F
It's vanity that takes you down,
G F
I thought that I could be the one, but I'm just another hanger-on!
[Verse 4]
F
Some man is bleeding in the dirt,
G
Some woman's crying that she's hurt,
F
But who are we without the thrill,
G Gsus4 G
With - out the dance, without the kill?
F G
And he is bull and matador, and I'm the mother and the whore,
F
And this is how the story goes,
G Am F
I knew it when I threw ...the rose!
[Coda]
Am F
| / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
I threw a rose to the matador, not sure who I was cheering for,
G
My aim was true, my heart was full,
F
I loved the fighter and the bull!
Am F
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat]
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Hello cruel world
Tabbed by: DJ
29th April 2013
Live video of Gretchen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ0C2z1TmBU
CAPO: 7th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Em)
Chord shapes and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 F = 133211 G = 320003 Gsus4 = 3x0013
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
===============================================================
[Intro]
Am F Am F
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Am F
I threw a rose to the matador, not sure who I was cheering for,
G
My aim was true, my heart was full,
F
I loved the fighter... and the bull,
Am F
I loved like only a woman can, a very complicated man,
G
I bound his wounds, I heard his cries,
F
I gave him truth, I told him lies!
[Verse 2]
Am F Am F
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
His rage is made of many things, faithless women, wedding rings,
G
Snakes and snails and alcohol,
F
His daddy's fist thrown through the wall,
Am
Ah, but he's beautiful when he's in the ring,
F
The devil howls, the angels sing,
G
Sparks fly from his fingertips,
F
And words, like birds, fly from his lips!
[Bridge]
F G
Some man is lying in the dirt, some woman's crying that he's hurt,
F
But he's not alive without the thrill,
G Gsus4 G
With - out the dance, without the kill,
F
The lights go down, the people roar,
G
They're cheering on the matador,
F G Am F
And this is how the story goes, I knew it when I threw the rose!
[Verse 3]
Am F
| / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
I come to each and every show, the woman in the second row,
G
I watch them in their ancient dance,
F
And I know I never stood a chance,
Am
'Cause while other demons prance and clown,
F
It's vanity that takes you down,
G F
I thought that I could be the one, but I'm just another hanger-on!
[Verse 4]
F
Some man is bleeding in the dirt,
G
Some woman's crying that she's hurt,
F
But who are we without the thrill,
G Gsus4 G
With - out the dance, without the kill?
F G
And he is bull and matador, and I'm the mother and the whore,
F
And this is how the story goes,
G Am F
I knew it when I threw ...the rose!
[Coda]
Am F
| / / / / | / / / / |
Am F
I threw a rose to the matador, not sure who I was cheering for,
G
My aim was true, my heart was full,
F
I loved the fighter and the bull!
Am F
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat]
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