Police And Thieves

The Clash

Police and Thieves Bass Tablature

Transcribed by Gilles Velay (*)

Notation :
	w : whole	||: repeat
  	h : half	R : rest		
	q : quarter	\ : slide down		
	e : 8th		/ : slide up
	s : 16th	^ : triplet
	

Intro
===== 
     q ^e e^e^e q   q [x3] w                 w                w             [x4]
G-||-------------------||----------------||-----------------|----------------||
D-||*-------4-2-------*||----------------||*----------------|---------------*||
A-||*-----------3---5-*||----------------||*-R--------------|-R-------------*||
E-||-3--3-3------------||--3-------------||-----------------|----------------||
     slow                                   faster (drums then guitars enter)

 
Verses, Guitar Solo and Outro 
=============================              
    e e e e q   q      q+e   e q   q      e  e e e q  q     q+e   e q   q     
G-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
D-|-5-------5--------|-------5----------|-7---------------|-------5-----------|
A-|---7-5-7-----R----|-R-------5---7----|---10-9-7-5--R---|-R-------5---7-----|
E-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
                                                                               

Chorus
======
[x3] h      e   q+e    h+e       e e e    h      e q+e      w
G-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
D-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
A-||-2------2-R------|-R---------2-3-5--|-0------0-R------|-R----------------||
E-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||

    h       h          h       h          h      h          h        h
G-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
D-|---------2--------|-3-------5--------|--------4--------|-5--------7--------|
A-|-3----------------|------------------|-5---------------|-------------------|
E-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|