Biography:
Everything But the Girl (EBTG), was a Hull, Yorkshire, UK, folk-pop / trip-hop duo of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. They débuted with a single for a Cole Porter cover, Night And Day (Mar 1982, Cherry Red). Their final album was Temperamental (Sept 1999, Virgin).
Ben met Tracey when they were at Hull University and she was singing in pop girl-band Marine Girls. Ben contributed a photograph, for a forthcoming album cover, after which, the pair became partners (later getting married).
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Other songs:
- Missing
- 25Th Of December
- Dont Let The Teardrops Rust Your Shining Heart
- Downtown Train
- Each And Every One
- Frost And Fire
- Heart Remains A Child
- I Dont Want To Talk About It
- Mirrorball
- Night And Day
- Old Friends
- One Place
- Piece Of My Mind
- Rollercoaster
- Single
- Troubled Mind
- We Walk The Same Line
- When Alls Well
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Song: Frost and fire
Artist: Everything but the girl
Composers: Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt
Album: Eden
Em7 = 022030 G = 320033 Bm7 = x24232
A6 = x02222 G/F# = 2x0033 B7#9 = x2123x
A7 = x02020 Em = 022000
A7sus4 = x02030 Cmaj7 = x32000
N.B.
Not in the studio version, but in some live performances, between the
G and Em Ben Watt plays a transitional G/F# chord on keyboards
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
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[Intro]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Em7 A6 Em7
You take the name of a man you hardly know,
A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 A7
And then you grow up, and the name has to go, married, with kids,
A7 A7sus4 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
And they don't want to know about the dreams ...you had to let go,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
You're still waiting for a knight in shining ar - mour,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
To steal you against your will,
A7 A7sus4
And while you're waiting, and doing no harm,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
You know, there's plenty of time to kill!
[Chorus]
G
And when you claim you wouldn't change a day,
G/F# Em
It makes me wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire-------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 2]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
And now yourself ...you start to see in me,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
Pictures of things which you could've been,
A7 A7sus4
Torches I find I am bearing for you,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
When you know ...you could have carried them too,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We give up so easily ...what little they leave us to lose,
A7 A7sus4
And, if I didn't have the fire to struggle,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
I could freeze ...in your shoes!
[Chorus]
G
When I say, "I couldn't live that way!",
G/F# Em
You must wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire-------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Bridge]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
A7 A7sus4 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Chorus]
G
When I say, "I couldn't live that way!",
G/F# Em
You must wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire--------------------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Coda]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7
| / / / / | / / / / | / ||
Artist: Everything but the girl
Composers: Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt
Album: Eden
Em7 = 022030 G = 320033 Bm7 = x24232
A6 = x02222 G/F# = 2x0033 B7#9 = x2123x
A7 = x02020 Em = 022000
A7sus4 = x02030 Cmaj7 = x32000
N.B.
Not in the studio version, but in some live performances, between the
G and Em Ben Watt plays a transitional G/F# chord on keyboards
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
***********************************************************************
[Intro]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Em7 A6 Em7
You take the name of a man you hardly know,
A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 A7
And then you grow up, and the name has to go, married, with kids,
A7 A7sus4 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
And they don't want to know about the dreams ...you had to let go,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
You're still waiting for a knight in shining ar - mour,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
To steal you against your will,
A7 A7sus4
And while you're waiting, and doing no harm,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
You know, there's plenty of time to kill!
[Chorus]
G
And when you claim you wouldn't change a day,
G/F# Em
It makes me wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire-------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 2]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
And now yourself ...you start to see in me,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
Pictures of things which you could've been,
A7 A7sus4
Torches I find I am bearing for you,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
When you know ...you could have carried them too,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We give up so easily ...what little they leave us to lose,
A7 A7sus4
And, if I didn't have the fire to struggle,
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
I could freeze ...in your shoes!
[Chorus]
G
When I say, "I couldn't live that way!",
G/F# Em
You must wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire-------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Bridge]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
A7 A7sus4 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Chorus]
G
When I say, "I couldn't live that way!",
G/F# Em
You must wonder where I went astray,
Cmaj7
Happy with things that leave me tired,
Bm7 B7#9 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
We're as ...unalike as frost and fire--------------------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Coda]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7 A6
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat]
Em7 A6 Em7 A6 Em7
| / / / / | / / / / | / ||
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