JOYTOWN
                    Kevin Gilbert

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I based this around the chords played on THUD, a live radio show and from watching the video on the official website - www.kevingilbert.com - 
where heīs promoting THUD outside a record store together with Nick DīVirgillio:

This is the riff for the `verse` - it is impossible to write out the amazing bass`groove`that flows throught this song, but itīs all variations on this. 

Tuning : D A D G A D 
h= hammer on 
p= pull off
s0 slide

|-----------------|
|--3--------------|
|--2--------------|
|0----------------|
|0----------------|
|0---4h5--5p4-5p4-| rpt 3x.

Then slide up to this chord:  7x7570 or 7x7500.
It varies.- on the video heīs doubling the bass notes thus:

|-----------------|
|--3--------------|
|--2--------------|
|0---4s5--5s4s5s4-|
|0----------------|
|0---4s5--5s4s5s4-| rpt 3x



Fathers they have big hands and they pat gently on your head
Mothers always make sure everyone is happy and well fed
And everything is instant, no one has to wait to long
And Lennon never has to sing a Paul McCartney song

The chords used in the `chorusī: 
1:004574
2:005555
3:007790
4:0089(10)
5:002352
6:7x5770
7:5x3550

As I have no idea of these chord names I just used numbers to indicate where theyīre more or less played. 
He plays different inversions of these chords throughout - but once you have the chords itīs easy to see
whats being played when and where.  



                             1  2        3           4 ( or 5 )                             
We're living here in Joytown,        the City of the Sun

6  7


    1             2
And everyone loves everyone 

1 2

      1            5
loves every single one

No one sells his roommate's stuff so he can get a fix
And no one fears the darkness, no one fears the number six
Everyone talks openly of great things they have read
And no one ever says the things that are better left unsaid
And everyone has someone they can share their sadness with
No one leaves the slightest doubt, no one takes the fifth

Jesus and Muhammed and Buddha live in town
Zoraster and Ba'h'aula and Moses hangs around
And when they get together they are quite a noisy crew
They laugh about their legacies over cigarettes and brew

Senator McCarthy enjoys a book by Marx
And people tear down parking lots
So they can build more parks
And Jimi plays the perfect note that never seems to end
and Martin Luther King has got a blond white girlfriend

We're singing here in Joytown
Won't you come and sing along?
We'll never tell you that you ain't singing the right notes,
Never criticize your song.

 
Tuning : D A D G A D 


|----------------|
|--3-------------|
|--2-------------|
|----------------|
|0---------------|
|0---4h5-5-4h5-4-|