Biography:
Neil Finn is a singer and songwriter and one of Te Awamutu, New Zealand's foremost musicians. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now the frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums, recorded two albums with his brother as the Finn Brothers, and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.
Finn is said to have decided to become a musician at the age of 12 and throughout his school years performed in hospitals and prisons
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Other songs:
- Fall At Your Feet
- Into The Sunset
- Song Of The Lonely Mountain
- The Climber
- Addicted
- Anytime
- Astro
- Billie Jean
- Climber
- Distant Sun
- Dizzy Heights
- Don T Dream Its Over
- Dont Ask Why
- Dont Dream Its Over
- Driving Me Mad
- Edible Flowers
- Elastic Heart
- Faster Than Light
- I Know Different
- In My Blood
- Last One Standing
- Last To Know
- Love Is Emotional
- More Than One Of You
- Nails In My Feet
- Only Talking Sense
- Pony Ride
- Recluse
- Rest Of The Day Off
- Second Nature
- She Will Have Her Way
- Sinner
- Souvenir
- Strangest Friends
- Sweet Secret Peace
- Take A Walk
- Terrorise Me
- Throw Your Arms Around Me
- Truth
- Try Whistling This
- Turn And Run
- Unexpected Journey The Hobbit
- Wherever You Are
- White Lies And Alibies
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SOUVENIR
(Neil Finn)
NOTES:
-- I've supplied two different versions of the intro (which is the same
thing played on the verses); the first version is an easier way to go,
though the voicings are not as accurate as Version 2. The problem is
that version 2 relies on the higher strings, giving you very little bass
to work with -- and this is a pretty bass-heavy song.
-- This is one of those songs on the album that doesn't work
particularly well as an acoustic guitar song.
-- The riff is pretty much identical all through the song.
* UNUSUAL CHORDS
E XX2100 (diff. from usual fingering)
D6 XX0100
F#m XX4222 (diff. from usual fingering)
A6/C# X42422
RIFF:
-----------------------||
-----------------------||
-11>9--------11>9------||
-------9---------------||
------------------12---||
-----------------------||
INTRO/VERSE, version 1: E F#m
INTRO/VERSE, version 2: E* D6* F#m*
VERSE:
E (D6) F#m
Don't ask the question
E (D6) F#m
cos you won't like the answer
E (D6) F#m
get up off your chair
A
there's nothing for you here
CHORUS:
D A D
Where the guests like souvenirs
A D A D
they play with you til you're all worn out
A D A D E (D6) F#m
back there the guests like souvenirs
VERSE:
Prison colour blue
it's a uniform of choice
count yourself lucky
and you don't write the software
CHORUS:
and the guests like souvenirs
they play with you till you're all worn out
back where the guests take photographs
they hope you had a good night
BRIDGE:
G A Bb A
G A Bb A
Loosen up your tie
G
make the viewers cry
A Bb E (D6) F#m
I cannot pretend to cry
SOLO:
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
--------------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11-11--11--|-11>9-----||
--------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------|----------||
--9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------------|-------12-||
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
VERSE:
Memorise by heart
every single part
there's nothing for you here
CHORUS:
Where the guests like souvenirs
they play with you til you're all worn out
back where the guests like souvenirs
they hope you had a good night
G A Bb A
G A Bb A
Each night I would fall
G A
right off the stairs
Bb A
no one's in prayer (?)
CODA: (instrumental, no words)
G(III) A6/C#* F#m D
G(III) A6/C# F#m E G
[c] 1997 by Roundhead Music, Administered by Wixen Music (BMI)
(Transcription by Marck Bailey)
(Neil Finn)
NOTES:
-- I've supplied two different versions of the intro (which is the same
thing played on the verses); the first version is an easier way to go,
though the voicings are not as accurate as Version 2. The problem is
that version 2 relies on the higher strings, giving you very little bass
to work with -- and this is a pretty bass-heavy song.
-- This is one of those songs on the album that doesn't work
particularly well as an acoustic guitar song.
-- The riff is pretty much identical all through the song.
* UNUSUAL CHORDS
E XX2100 (diff. from usual fingering)
D6 XX0100
F#m XX4222 (diff. from usual fingering)
A6/C# X42422
RIFF:
-----------------------||
-----------------------||
-11>9--------11>9------||
-------9---------------||
------------------12---||
-----------------------||
INTRO/VERSE, version 1: E F#m
INTRO/VERSE, version 2: E* D6* F#m*
VERSE:
E (D6) F#m
Don't ask the question
E (D6) F#m
cos you won't like the answer
E (D6) F#m
get up off your chair
A
there's nothing for you here
CHORUS:
D A D
Where the guests like souvenirs
A D A D
they play with you til you're all worn out
A D A D E (D6) F#m
back there the guests like souvenirs
VERSE:
Prison colour blue
it's a uniform of choice
count yourself lucky
and you don't write the software
CHORUS:
and the guests like souvenirs
they play with you till you're all worn out
back where the guests take photographs
they hope you had a good night
BRIDGE:
G A Bb A
G A Bb A
Loosen up your tie
G
make the viewers cry
A Bb E (D6) F#m
I cannot pretend to cry
SOLO:
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
--------------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11-11--11--|-11>9-----||
--------9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------|----------||
--9>11--------------9>11--------------9>11---------------------|-------12-||
---------------------------------------------------------------|----------||
VERSE:
Memorise by heart
every single part
there's nothing for you here
CHORUS:
Where the guests like souvenirs
they play with you til you're all worn out
back where the guests like souvenirs
they hope you had a good night
G A Bb A
G A Bb A
Each night I would fall
G A
right off the stairs
Bb A
no one's in prayer (?)
CODA: (instrumental, no words)
G(III) A6/C#* F#m D
G(III) A6/C# F#m E G
[c] 1997 by Roundhead Music, Administered by Wixen Music (BMI)
(Transcription by Marck Bailey)
Nekfeu
Neko Atsume
Neko Case
Nela Otuafi
Nellie Mckay