13th Floor Elevators - Thru The Rhythm Chords
Thru The Rhythm The 13th Floor Elevators As heard from the 2005 CD Reissue of The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators by Charly). Lyrics are not completely accurate because of partial vocal In those spots, approximations were put in their place. F#m B repeat F#m B Thru the rhythm of darkened times F#m B Painted black by knowledge crimes F#m B And repetitions from this crime F#m B And steering valleys the sick define F#m B That keeps the fabric that keeps you bind F#m B and ties your hands and cloaks your mind F#m B But on my stilts, I'm above the slime F#m B F#m B Come on, well, if you can make the climb, but who am I? F#m B F#m Who am I? Who am I? F#m B My stilts are sticks from the fields that rise F#m B From the books that we had teach the same old lies F#m B I felt the panic that bathed the skies F#m B And the forms of laws of every size F#m B And you know the teachers whine and make me drop out like flies F#m B But you know they teach you nonsense, but they can't blind your eyes F#m B I feel the field is gold that torn off as the pride F#m B F#m B To the Everest standard that calms for pride, well where am I? F#m B F#m B Where am I? Where am I? Abm Db Abm Db You gobbled all the blessings that they caused you to digest Abm Db They may be hard to swallow, but they keep your tongue depressed Abm Db Your scattered wills were born to pressed Abm Db So when something slams your chest Abm Db You flutter about, you're sleek distressed Abm Db And when you stop to ease your breast Abm Db A scattered rim beast you're obsessed Abm Db Db Was fallin' thoughts of who's the best, but where are you? Abm Db Db OHHHHHHHHH Where are you? HEY! Where are you? Ad lib on "Where are you" same cord prog. This song was transcribed with a CD-BT1 mkII unit. The song was slowed down for accuracy transcribed by sean lemnah13th Floor Elevators - Thru The Rhythm Chords :: indexed at Ultimate Guitar.
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The band found only limited commercial success before dissolving amid legal troubles and drug use. However, as one of the first psychedelic bands, they have been cited as an influential protopunk group.[citation needed] Their biggest hit "You're Gonna Miss Me", a Billboard #55 hit in 1966, was featured on the 1972 compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, which was later to be considered a landmark in the history of garage rock and the development of punk rock.[citation needed]
The band's classic line-up was singer/guitarist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, guitarist Stacy Sutherland, drummer John Ike Walton and bass player Ronnie Leatherman, with several other irregular contributors and sessions musicians. Erickson and Hall were the band's primary songwriters, but most band members submitted material from time to time. The "electric jug" sound would become the band's signature and trademark.In July 1967, Walton and Leatherman left the band and were replaced by Danny Thomas (drums) and Dan Galindo (bass guitar). With this new line up, the Elevators recorded their second album Easter Everywhere (with the exception of two songs "She Lives" and "Levitation") which was considered to be the band's superlative effort by most critics. Ronnie Leatherman later returned for the fourth and final album, Bull of the Woods.
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