****************************************************************** | Newsboys - WooHoo | | Album - Step up to the Microphone | | Written by Furler, Joel | | c1998 Dawn Treader Music / SESAC / Shephard's Fold Music / BMI | | Transcribed by Matt Blakely (matt.blakely@ottawa.com) | ****************************************************************** This is a long ways from a professional job (my very first tab....ooohhhh....a momentous occasion...), but it sounds not too bad. Mail me with new ideas, corrections, whatever....at matt.blakely@ottawa.com. **[ intro - heavy distortion ]** C# G# Amin Aii C# G# Amin Aii C# G# Amin Aii C# G# Amin **[ verse I ]** no chord C# G# Amin Aii request the honor of your presence C# G# Amin Aii the tear gas has blown away C# G# Amin Aii put down your crumpets and your coffee now C# G# Amin Aii so unfashionably late **[ pre-chorus ]** F# (lift index finger on and off) little brother, little sister underwater we go out of our ordinary selves stepping out to where the people sing **[ chorus ]** D A E woohoooooooooo D A E and the people sing D A E and the times are good D A E and the people sing and the times are good **[ verse II ]** C# G# Amin (Fill A) you say i'm acting like a beggar C# G# Amin (Fill A) i call it killing the fool C# G# Amin (Fill A) you carry more baggage than a momma's boy C# G# Amin (Fill A) on your first day of school ( pre-chorus ) ( chorus ) **[ musical interlude ]** C# (I'm not sure what else...) **[ bridge ]** C# E F#ii let go the light of the t.v. B D E drop the hands the chains that bind me F# E F# turn it all around, stop, lift you up 'n die to self C# E F#ii in a time when the left and the right's the same B D E when it's all blurred vision in a crazy haze F#min send out the invitations! D A E x4 ( chorus x 2 ) Chords and Fills used: Fill A C# G# Amin Aii F# D A E F#ii B E----------------|--x-|--x-|--x--|---x---|-2--|-5--|-5--|-7--|--x---|-x-| B------5---------|--x-|--9-|--x--|---5---|-2--|-7--|-5--|-9--|--x---|-x-| G--4-6---6v-6-4--|--6-|--8-|--x--|---6---|-3--|-7--|-6--|-9--|--11--|-x-| D----------------|--6-|--6-|--7--|---7---|-4--|-7--|-7--|-9--|--11--|-9-| A----------------|--4-|--x-|--7--|---x---|-4--|-5--|-7--|-7--|--9---|-9-| E----------------|--x-|--x-|--5--|---x---|-2--|-x--|-5--|-0--|--x---|-7-| By the way, if you don't have the new Newsboys cd, you'd better get it because it's awesome!