Fan Transcriptions

Most of these tabs have been collected from the now defunct Unofficial Blue Nile Website. At some point I should make a link to a downloadable version.

Guitar Tablature for The First Day

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day

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There is no guitar part on the original and so
the chords are based on what I hear.
For a solo guitar version I find a combination
of picked and single chord strums works best.
Experiment and discover which works best for you.
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Chords

Cm      -8(10)(10)88x
Cmadd11 -8(10)(10)86x 
Bb      -688766
Gm7     -3x3333
Fm7     -131141
Db      -x68886

@ The First Day

Cm     Bb      Gm7     Cm

                    Cm
Bring out the stars
                    Cmadd11
And fade to silence
Bb
Let the heart decide
                 Gm7
and watch it grow

               Cm
Ring out the bells
               Cm
Trading in blindness
          Bb
Fooled by kisses
           Gm7
Touched by wings

Cm
   Shadow-fall

And the water fills the room
          Bb        Gm
Bathed in moon grey blue

Cm     
Baby came and spoke her name
     Bb          Gm7 
With promises to call again
Fm7                Gm7
Swimming gold in a shipwrecked sea
     Bb
She troubles me
                      
She troubles me

Eb    Gm7   Cm   Bb  Gm7   Cm

Counting the ways
To fall without landing
Stumbling into flight
Descent and slide

Compressing sound
From coal to diamond
Words are knotted tight
To chords that bind

Shadow-fall
And the water fills the room
Bathed in moon grey blue

Baby came and spoke her name
With promises to call again
Swimming gold in a shipwrecked sea
She troubles me
She troubles me

Eb    Bb     Cm

  Cm                   Bb
Received by the eye, believed by the word
   Gm7                          Fm7
Be seen to make haste, when the soundings are heard
                   Cm
Don't discourage me
  Cm                          
Whittling down the wood with the stone
Bb                            Gm7
If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone
                   Cm
Don't discourage me
                   Cm
Bring out the stars
                  Cmadd11
On the first day
          Bb
On the first day
                 Cmadd11 Cm
On the first day