Biography:
J. Roddy Walston and The Business is a Baltimore, Md.-based rock band playing melodic, often upbeat and catchy songs influenced by the Southern rock tradition and featuring accomplished lyrics and musicianship. Their songs are often piano-driven and also feature strong guitar solos. The band moved to Baltimore from Tennessee.
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Tabbed based of the audio on YouTube.
Track 4.
PIGS & PEARLS
J. Roddy Walston & The Business
From their self-titled debut album
Notes: at the end of almost every line, there'll be like upheaval of G downstrokes.
If you listen to the song, you'll get what I mean.
Verse
C F C G
I know you stole it and now you’re gonna walk it around.
C F C G
Oh my body knows you stole it, and now you’re gonna walk it around.
Fm (brief) F C
Feels just like a pentacost, a tounge of fire’s licking me down.
F C G
Am I a man or broken proper noun.
C F C G
Feels like the real thing, but he’s thick like a movie screen.
C F C G
Says his coffee’s black, but that boys just sugar and cream.
Pre-chorus
F
Now everybody’s running to come get some.
G
They say. My oh my what have you become?
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
F | C | G
Verse
C F C G
I know your greasy smile and you can just walk it around.
C F C G
My family knows your greasy smile and you can just walk it around.
F C
Ma and pa pick up the phone call for help then put it back down.
F -pause C G
Put it down.
C F C
You’ve been boyfriended twice so hard before.
F C
The man took it all, but the boy took what you were good for.
Pre-chorus
F
Both were tempting with their blood and their bread.
G C G
Er'body said my oh my what got into your head.
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
Refrain
G
Well, I went to your house sweet maybeline.
C F
And you did a deed that I never seen.
C G C
I will never go that way again.
F -pause G C
No. I have seen the end of ends.
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C F
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
C G C
You are just a pig I fed with pearls
-end
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Track 4.
PIGS & PEARLS
J. Roddy Walston & The Business
From their self-titled debut album
Notes: at the end of almost every line, there'll be like upheaval of G downstrokes.
If you listen to the song, you'll get what I mean.
Verse
C F C G
I know you stole it and now you’re gonna walk it around.
C F C G
Oh my body knows you stole it, and now you’re gonna walk it around.
Fm (brief) F C
Feels just like a pentacost, a tounge of fire’s licking me down.
F C G
Am I a man or broken proper noun.
C F C G
Feels like the real thing, but he’s thick like a movie screen.
C F C G
Says his coffee’s black, but that boys just sugar and cream.
Pre-chorus
F
Now everybody’s running to come get some.
G
They say. My oh my what have you become?
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
F | C | G
Verse
C F C G
I know your greasy smile and you can just walk it around.
C F C G
My family knows your greasy smile and you can just walk it around.
F C
Ma and pa pick up the phone call for help then put it back down.
F -pause C G
Put it down.
C F C
You’ve been boyfriended twice so hard before.
F C
The man took it all, but the boy took what you were good for.
Pre-chorus
F
Both were tempting with their blood and their bread.
G C G
Er'body said my oh my what got into your head.
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
Refrain
G
Well, I went to your house sweet maybeline.
C F
And you did a deed that I never seen.
C G C
I will never go that way again.
F -pause G C
No. I have seen the end of ends.
Chorus
C
It’s not that boy. It’s not his brother.
F
It’s just me, you’ve got no other….
C G
Human friend they’re just hard to find.
C
And with my mouth I’ll shut your mouth.
F
Those awful words won’t come about.
G -pause C F
Yeah you’re….. just a pig I fed with pearls.
C G C
You are just a pig I fed with pearls
-end
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OR do the corrections yourself.
THANK YOU
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