[Saferintheflowers]

Has anyone ever tried tabbing out a version of "Always You" or "Polly" ?

[jfw7]

if it's not on actabs (http://actabs.pbworks.com/) then it's not been posted in any of the usual spots—yukbon is super vigilant about transferring things over.

[amber]

Also looking for polly chords.

[jetski]

Polly chords are

Verse: Gb Abm Bbm Abm
Chorus ("Isn't me..."): Ebm Db Abm Gb

That should be the whole song

In the original version the guitars are slightly out of tune (as is to be expected with Feels-era stuff) and also in some sort of alternate tuning, but those are the chords. Also if you don't want to play barre chords, then you can play with a capo on the first fret and just lower each chord by one half-step (i.e. G Am Bm Am / Em D Am G)

[yaava]

I'm pretty sure Always You is basically F6 all the way through.

[Saferintheflowers]

How are you playing the F6? As in where on the guitar are you playing it

[Saferintheflowers]

and thank you too!!!

[jetski]

Ok, here's a bit more in-depth explanation for Always You:

It's one chord the whole time, but it's actually F#6 rather than F6 (pretty much the same thing, but just add a capo on 1st fret). Now note that technically the chord is the same for the whole song, and if you listen closely you'll notice that the lowest note, F#, stays the same the whole time. However, there are slight variations on the chord the whole time. Also since it's from the 2003-04 era I assume there's more than one guitar and possibly up to three, so there are probably several variations of the same chord going on at the same time. Also, keep in mind that AC often play guitar in alternate or open tunings, although I don't really know what specific tunings they use.

So in other words, it's hard to sound *exactly* like AC does in this recording. The good news is, you can sort of fake it by occasionally playing variations on the F#6 chord.

What I would play is start out by playing something like this (with a capo on the 1st fret):

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That's an F#major 7 chord (again, with the capo—without the capo it's Fmajor7). You can also play the A string open instead of muting it, if you so desire.

Then once you're comfortable with that, here's a little variation you can throw in by playing the D and G strings as open strings:

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Just switch back and forth between those two chords, and that should get you in the ballpark for getting that ringing, droney style of guitar playing that AC used on Campfire Songs, Other Music boot, etc. Hope that helps!

[Saferintheflowers]

Oh man!! You fucking awesome, thank you

[yaava]

I actually looked through some of my old guitar notes and found the page where I wrote down the exact tuning for Always You. I was messing around with open tunings a few years ago and randomly found this, and I was so psyched I had to write it down. Always You is still one of my favorite AC acoustic jams.

So, anyway, I don't know if it's what the band used, but it sounds damn well spot-on.

As Victor_Borge said, the actual chord is indeed F#6. You tune your guitar to FACFCD (be careful not to break your strings), and capo the first fret. To play the song as they do, all you do is strum this open chord and fiddle with pressing some notes on the little E string. It's been a while since I played the song, but if you experiment along to the recording I think you'll quickly find which added notes they add in throughout.

They definitely have at least 2 guitars going for the song, so if you play it alone it won't have some of the beautiful intricacies, but it'll definitely sound accurate.