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Toby Keith - The Taliban (Chord)
Album: Shock'n Y'All (2003)
Submitter: lmofle (1010) on 8/30/02 17 comments
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The Taliban
By Toby Keith
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com


This was tabbed off a version done on the Bob and Tom show. If you 
want to play along with the Shock 'N Yall version, Capo on 1!.


The chord names may not be correct but the shapes are right.
When you are playing the intro and the verses you should
Fingerpick with a bass note first then pluck the bottom
strings all at the same time (listen the the song and you will 
hear what I am referring to:


F  =   133211        Bb  = x13331
A6 =   545555        C   = x35553
G6 =   323333        Am  = 577555
C6 =   x32333        Dm  = x57765
F7 =   131241


Intro:


F   A6   G6   C6

               F                   A6           G6       C6
Well I’m just a middle aged middle eastern camel herdin’ man
       F          A6           G6           C6
I got a 2 bedroom cave here in north Afganistan
       F               A6             G6         C6
Things used to be real cool then they got out of hand
    F             A6 G6 C6      F   A6      G6      C6 
When they moved in, .......they call themselves the Taliban
F    A6   G6 C6        F      A6   G6   C6   
(ooo-ooo-ooo yea, )the Taliban

(Same chords as above verses)
Now, I ain’t seen my wife’s face since they came here
They make her wear a scarf over her head that covers her from ear to ear
She loves the desert and the hot white sand
But man she’s just like me, naw she can’t stand the Taliban
(ooo-Taliban baby)

Chorus:
         Bb                            C
You know someday soon we’re both gonna saddle up
             F     Am     Dm 
And it’ll be ride, camel, ride
       Bb                  C               F           F7
My old lady she’ll be here with me smilin’ right by my side
          Bb                   C                  F    Am   Dm
We should do just fine down in Palestine or maybe Turkministan
            Bb                      C             F
We’ll bid a fair adieu and flip the finger to the Taliban

(go back to verse chords here)
Oh oh yea the Taliban, baby

Now they attacked New York City cause they thought they could win
Said they would stand and fight until the very bloody end
Well, Mr Bush got on the phone with Iraq and Iran and said
Now you knuckleheads better not be doin’ business with the Taliban

So we prayed to Allah with all of our might
And then those big US jets came flyin’ in one night
They dropped little bombs all over our holy land
And man you should have seen em run like rabbits, they ran, the Taliban

Chorus

We’ll bid a fair adieu and flip a couple fingers to the Taliban
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
A nice and easily discernable tab. If anyone has an MP3 of it,
could you please email it to me? I heard Toby do it in concert
and used the tab to pull my version together. For a while it
was posted on a country site, but is gone now.
Thanks to the Tabber for his humor in doing this somewhat
off-the-wall "Bus Song" by Toby. - Eric
-eric_steinmetz | 11/26/2002
s**t thats gotta be the hardest song in the world but im just a beginner
Lumpy
-lumpyokc | 12/8/2002
Yes but you won't get the same exact sound like with this...
-lmofle | 10/26/2003
You are right! You have to play this with the bar chords,
or it loses alot in translation. This tab is perfect!
-WildCard76 | 11/5/2003

-lmofle | 11/5/2003
I think you have to capo one to match the Shock'n Ya'll version.
(unless the mp3 I have isn't the official one off the album) Great job!
-Shantel | 11/10/2003
Ah, hah!! Had not thought of that...when
I got this mp3, it is off the Bob & Tom show
that he performed on Live...
-lmofle | 11/10/2003
This one's a perfect 10...
-JoeWallace | 11/11/2003
great tab, thank you. Just finger pick it to get the mellow feel.
play the bass notes with your thumb and gently pluck the rest of the
chord.

-tbob | 11/23/2003
I think the capo people are right - It does take on a differnt tone
with the nylon string as well... but good ear !!

-Scoop52Tele | 11/26/2003
Ok, I've been wondering about this for a while since I can't find
these fingerings for the A6, C6, etc anywhere other than this
site...How do you bar one fret, but play one string a fret back? Am I
reading the fingering wrong? Or is this an "In time grasshopper, in
time..." kinda thing? Thanks in advance for any advice on how to
learn this.

-debeck | 12/2/2003
Debeck - I PM'd you but here is the info:

I know it looks sort of scary but notice the fingerings:

fingers - 213333
A6 = - 545555

I put the actual fingers you use above where I placed the tab
fingering. See if this helps...basically you are making a G chord
(using your pointer and index to put on the 5th and 6th strings and
use the ring finger to barre the rest. The bottom E does not have to
ring clearly (it can be muted)...the G6 is the exact shape as the A6
only 2 frets down. The C9 is just lowering everything down a string.

Does this make sense?
-lmofle | 12/2/2003
Not tryin' to be mean but, unless play you play the chords I put on
the tab, it won't sound as exact as what everyone else says..

-lmofle | 1/20/2004
You guys do know that there are Two guitars in this song right?
Scott is playing on the first fret and Toby is playing on the 4th
fret so everyone is really right. You can only hear Scott's guitar
more because he picks alot harder than Toby does. Hope this helps
everyone.

-Senshi | 3/20/2004
I don't know if I just simplify to much for my own good or not but I
have been playing this song D F#m Bm A7 and in the chorus using G
A F#m Bm G A D D7 G A F#m Bm G A and back to D I understand it
ain't just like Toby but I don't like him anyhow. I just play it
how I can sing it great job on your tab though its dead on

-geetarnsc | 4/27/2004
I always played it:

F Am7 Gm C

Sounds pretty good to me...but what do I know?
-mjsanford | 7/17/2004
you can also play A6 like this, it doesnt sound exactly like it does on the recording, but its still proper, and much easier.
e 2
B 2
G 2
D 2
A 4
E 5
-l3obbo | 11/28/2004
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