Across This Antheap
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Andy: “This song's been around for awhile. It started out bluesy and swampy but the music didn't fit the lyrics. It's a list song, listing what humans do. There's a relentlessness about it, of people swarming everywhere.”
Andy: “This Dark and swampy reading found no favour with Skylarking's man at the helm, Todd Rundgren. To be honest I couldn't see it fitting in with his pastoral vision either, and, well, it felt half born. The swamp/redskin chug didn't quite suit it and really its time wasn't right. So it went back on the shelf until. . .”
Andy: “. . . the ‘the’ became ‘this’ it was an album later. A more propulsive latinesque rhythm was found, an intro and middle section built and lyrics were stacked better. Please just don't ask me the chords, all I can remember is it's in open E tuning and yes doing the mouth trumpet was lots of fun, though more Dana Gillespie than Dizzy.”
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Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, nurses, queens and drones. Wish they'd leave my head tonight, let me rest my bones.
(Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em.) A billion feet sound just like a billion drums. A bed is creaking as the new messiah comes. The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked. The coffin's lowered and the lunches get packed. Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud. Doesn't matter what colour of cat you are there's no dogs allowed.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep. The stars are laughing at us, as we crawl on and on across this antheap.
War planes go over but no wages go 'round. A sign goes up to say hey we're twin towned. The dough is rising but no bread will be baked. The fur is genuine but the orgasm's faked. We're spending millions to learn to speak porpoise, when human loneliness is still a deafening noise.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep. The stars are laughing at us, as we crawl on and on across this antheap.
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, nurses, queens and drones. Wish they'd leave my head tonight, and let me rest my bones.
And all the world's babies are crying still. While all the police cars harmonize with power drills. As jets and kettles form a chord with screeching gulls. Accompanied by truncheons keeping time on human skulls.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep. The stars are laughing at us, as we crawl on and on past lovers who'll leap. On and on past widows who'll weep. On and on no more than skin deep. On and on across this antheap.
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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:04:33 -0400 From: "J. D. Mack" <jdmack01 (at) verizon dot net> Subject: Something for the Chalkhills website Message-id: <6a2b0d1f-9508-602f-eb91-c715a1d83220 (at) verizon dot net>
Attached is a labor of love I've been working on for the past few weeks. It is bass guitar transcriptions for all of the songs on "Oranges and Lemons" - both notation and tab.
Thanks!
J. D.
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:53:58 +0200
From: <christer.liljegren (at) bredband dot net>
Subject: Chords to Across this antheap
Message-ID: <BF358646.379%christer.liljegren (at) bredband dot net>
After listening to both the O&L version and the FW6 demo I've tried to make
a transcription with chords that feels suitable to play on the acoustic
guitar. But still sounds good and close to the original. That means that the
chords in the intro and bridge part are the same chords that is played on
O&L and FW6. However the chord inversions I use in the verse/chorus part are
lower than the original ones.
For those of you who find it too tricky to play Andy's "oriental" blues riff
that goes through the verse I believe that it works just fine to play a
simple (but "groovy") E7 all over that part.
And for the more practised guitar players then it goes basically like this:
E------0!----------0--0------------0!----------0--
B-----(2)>3--2--0--2--0-----------(2)>3--2--0--0--
G-------------------------3--4--------------------
D-------------------------2--2--------------------
A-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
E------0!----------0--0----------
B-----(2)>3--2--0--2--0----------
G------------------------3--4----
D------------------------2--2----
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
From the start of each phrase pick both the B and E strings and bend from C#
up to D and then release back to C# then pull off to B (let the open E!
ring).
ACROSS THIS ANTHEAP (Andy Partridge)
INTRO (AND BRIDGE)
Fmaj7b5 Bbmaj7b5 Fmaj7b5 Cmaj13/G bass
x*x*3*2*0*0 x*x*8*7*5*5 3*3*2*2*0*x
Fmaj7b5 Bbmaj7b5 Fmaj7b5 B #5 B
x*2*x*4*4*3 x*2*x*4*4*2
VERSE/CHORUS)
E7 (or riff) . . .
0*2*0*1*0*0
(and the screaming sky won't let me sleep)
G6 F#7 B7 E7 (or riff) . . .
3*x*0*0*2*0 2*4*2*3*2*2 x*2*4*2*4*2
(the stars are laughing at us, as we crawl
G6 B B/A bass B/G# bass B/F# bass
x*2*4*4*4*x x*0*4*4*4*x 4*x*4*4*4*x 2*x*4*4*4*x
on and on across this antheap.)
Cadd2b5 Gmaj7/B bass Cadd2b5 Am7 B7
x*3*0*0*3*2 x*2*0*0*3*2 x*0*2*0*1*0
E7 (or riff) . . . etc.
OUTRO ("on and on and on")
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