GIRL'S NOT GREY AFI

WORDS AND MUSIC BY AFI TRANSCRIBED BY Jeff Perrin

All guitars are tuned down one half step (tow to high: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb).
Bass tuning (low to high): Eb Ab Db Gb.
All notes and chards sound one half step lower than written (key ofAb minor).

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~ Intro (0:00)
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As heard on AFl's DreamWorks recording Sing the Sorrow

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 GIRL'S NOT GREY AFI
(0:16, 0:59)
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[!] Verses (0:24, 1:07)

1. I'll lay me
2.AII Insects
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down tonight much further

sing tonight the coldest
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down Swim In the calm tonight

sound I'd send God's grace tonight
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GIRL'S NOT GREY AFI
This art goes down
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ui] Bridge (1 :42)

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I'll · lay me down tonight much further
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out tonight on sinking ground

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GIRL'SNOT GREY AFI
[ID I.nterlude (1:58)

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I'll lay me down

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 GIRL'S NOT GREY AFI
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[!] 3rd Chorus (2:34)

Double-time Feel
me has the whitest love of light just begs to
follows) (Wiii swallow whole)
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Bass plays Bass Fig. 3 w/ad lib variation (see meas. 22)

be imbrued has led me to this place where I

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belong with all erased What

F/C C E . E/8 N.C.(85)

[ill Outro (2:52)

Original Feel
follows wlll swallow whole What
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Bass plays Bass Fig. 1 simile (see meas. 1}

follows will swallow whole

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