Biography:
The Mother Hips is a rock band based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tim Bluhm (vocals/guitar), Greg Loiacono (guitar/vocals), Isaac Parsons (bass) and Mike Wofchuck (drums) met in 1990 while attending California State University-Chico, living off campus in Bradley Hall.
The band went on indefinite hiatus in February 2003. Toward the end of 2004 the Mother Hips reunited and started playing shows again.
"We definitely all missed playing together
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Mother Hips - Transplant Song
One of Tim’s lesser known solo project songs. California Soul at its best !
I've been waiting years for someone else to tab it... Then I found Tim playing
it on Youtube, easy after that. -Jack
(walk-up to) (through-out song)
D A Em G
I've been a transplant too
D A G D
Anyways I'm not mad at you
D A Em G
But I get compared with all of you making a thousand bucks a day
D A G D
My head's all wrong to live here any longer anyway
D A Em G
I should've been born in North California
D A G D
Northern California fifty wintertimes ago
D A Em G
Ohh ohooh Oooohoh oh oh
D A G D
Ohh ohooh Oooohoh oh oh
Note: When Tim plays it acoustic, he does a walk-down G to the F#m,
he doesn’t seem to play the full bar chord.
G F#m D A
I am moving away from the place I am from
G F#m D A
Because I don't like to squeeze where I don't fit in
G F#m D G
It's my birthright to stay but I'm leaving anyway
D A G D
North country take me in
Walk-up and down mini solo.
D A Em G
My mother's always telling me that I don't work enough
D A G D
She says, "You don't work enough" but it isn't true
D A Em G
It just burns me up to think she thinks that I don't work enough
D A G D
No one could see the kind of work I do
D A Em G
I am a native in a stranger land
D A G D
There's a stranger in my box of sand
D A Em G
I would gladly accept him, extending my hand
D A G D
But he looks at me and he doesn't understand
G F#m D A
I am moving away from the place I am from
G F#m D A
Because I don't like to squeeze where I don't fit in
G F#m D G
It's my birthright to stay but I'm leaving anyway
D A G D
North country take me in
D A G (hammer on A string) D
North country take me in !!
Tim playing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmYQiFF_SqQ
One of Tim’s lesser known solo project songs. California Soul at its best !
I've been waiting years for someone else to tab it... Then I found Tim playing
it on Youtube, easy after that. -Jack
(walk-up to) (through-out song)
D A Em G
I've been a transplant too
D A G D
Anyways I'm not mad at you
D A Em G
But I get compared with all of you making a thousand bucks a day
D A G D
My head's all wrong to live here any longer anyway
D A Em G
I should've been born in North California
D A G D
Northern California fifty wintertimes ago
D A Em G
Ohh ohooh Oooohoh oh oh
D A G D
Ohh ohooh Oooohoh oh oh
Note: When Tim plays it acoustic, he does a walk-down G to the F#m,
he doesn’t seem to play the full bar chord.
G F#m D A
I am moving away from the place I am from
G F#m D A
Because I don't like to squeeze where I don't fit in
G F#m D G
It's my birthright to stay but I'm leaving anyway
D A G D
North country take me in
Walk-up and down mini solo.
D A Em G
My mother's always telling me that I don't work enough
D A G D
She says, "You don't work enough" but it isn't true
D A Em G
It just burns me up to think she thinks that I don't work enough
D A G D
No one could see the kind of work I do
D A Em G
I am a native in a stranger land
D A G D
There's a stranger in my box of sand
D A Em G
I would gladly accept him, extending my hand
D A G D
But he looks at me and he doesn't understand
G F#m D A
I am moving away from the place I am from
G F#m D A
Because I don't like to squeeze where I don't fit in
G F#m D G
It's my birthright to stay but I'm leaving anyway
D A G D
North country take me in
D A G (hammer on A string) D
North country take me in !!
Tim playing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmYQiFF_SqQ
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