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Police and Thieves Guitar Tablature
The Clash -Police and Thieves A          Key-x Muffled Strings
Album -The Clash                             ~ Let Ring
Track 12                                     / Slide
Tabbed by chris. Ive also put the bass up so check it out

Guitar 1 -Joe Strummer
Guitar 2 -Mick Jones

Intro-
Guitar 1 e|---3---0---2---||
         B|---0---1---3---||
         G|---0---2---2---|| x3 end on G
         D|---0---0---0---||
         A|---2---3-------||
         E|---3-----------||

Guitar 2 e|--------------------------------------------------||
         B|--------------------------------------------------||
         G|-----5--7--4~~~-----5--7--4~~~---5--7/-12~~~~-----|| x1
         D|---5----------------------------------------------||
         A|--------------------------------------------------||
         E|--------------------------------------------------||

         e|------------------------------------------------------------------||
         B|------------------------------------------------------------------||
         G|------------------------------------------------------------------|| x1
         D|--12-12-12-12--14-14-14-14--12-12-12-12--14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14--||
         A|--10-10-10-10--12-12-12-12--10-10-10-10--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--||
         E|------------------------------------------------------------------||

Verse-
Guitar 1 e|--3-3--------0-0----||
         B|--0-0--------1-1----||
         G|--0-0--------2-2----||
         D|--0-0--------2-2----||
         A|--2-2--------0-0----||
         E|--3-3---------------||
 
Guitar 2 e|--3-3-------5-5---------|-------------------|--------------||
         B|--3-3-------5-5---------|-------------------|--------------||
         G|--4-4-------5-5---------|---(x4)------(x4)--|--(x4)--(x4)--||
         D|--5-5--/12--7-7--/14----|--12-x-x---14-x-x--|--12-x--14-x--||
         A|--5-5--/10--7-7--/12----|--10-x-x---12-x-x--|--10-x--12-x--||
         E|--3-3-------5-5---------|-------------------|--------------||

Chorus-
Guitar 1 e|---2-2--0-0------0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2---||
         B|---4-4--2-2------1-1-1-1--3-3-3-3---||
         G|---4-4--2-2-(x3)-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2---||
         D|---4-4--2-2------0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0---||
         A|---2-2--0-0------3-3-3-3------------||
         E|------------------------------------||

Guitar 2 e|---7-7--5-5------3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5--||
         B|---7-7--5-5------5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7--||
         G|---8-8--6-6-(x3)-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7--||
         D|---9-9--7-7------5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7--||
         A|---9-9--7-7------3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5--||
         E|---7-7--5-5------------------------||
         
Solo -
Guitar 1 e|--3-3--------0-0----||
         B|--0-0--------1-1----||
         G|--0-0--------2-2----||
         D|--0-0--------2-2----||
         A|--2-2--------0-0----||
         E|--3-3---------------||

Guitar 2 e|------7-7--5--3----3--5------------7-7--5--3-------------------||
         B|---5------------5-------5-5-~~---5-----------5-3-5--3/5/3/5/3--||
         G|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         D|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         A|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         E|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         e|------7-7--5-3~~~------8-8--7--5~~~--3/5-7-7p5/3--5-7/10/7~~~--||
         B|---5----------------5------------------------------------------||
         G|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         D|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         A|---------------------------------------------------------------||
         E|---------------------------------------------------------------||

thats basically all you need to play the song.theres a smalllead part near the end.its pretty easy to work out!. play it after Mick plays the verse.(G and A)
play each power chord x16? and palm muted
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