Towering Fool
                                        by Govt Mule


transcribed by Seth Brewster

      Am        C#5

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        B         G#m
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Fill 1
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   Am                         C#5
Yeah, somebody somewhere must have hurt you 

Am                        C#5
You must have been really abused

Am               C#5
A victim of your raising

C#5             B
Isn't that your excuse 

G#
Towering Fool 


Am                       C#5
In a dream I watched you inflict yourself 

   Am              C#5
On everyone within reach 

    Am               C#5
Now frozen in time I see it still 

       B
Like a movie 

Am                             C#5
How long has it been since you shook the hand 

Am                           C#5
Of those who fell under your feet 

Am                                 C#5
And how long has it been since you washed yours clean 

C#5                                B       G#
From the blood and the dirt of the street 

Am                                  C#5
Did you really think you could just fly away 

Am                     C#5
Fly right out of those blues 

C#5     C5    B5  Am **
Did you towering fool


Guitar Part in the Middle of Song
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               Am                 (Am)          C#5     
Don't you know greatness comes to those who can hold it 

       Am                      C#5
Did it slip right through your hands

       Am                      C#5 
Did it brush your sleeve as it passed you by 

       C#5              B           G#
Do you compare yourself now to then 

       Am             (Fill 1)
All this pent up anger 

 Am
Don't you feel alone ranger 

 C#5      C5    B5    Am  **
Don't you towering fool 


(another guitar part about the same as the previous, but quieter and with leslie sound)


       Am                      C#5
So you use every ounce of your energy 

Am                       C#5
To keep those around you down

               Am                     C#5 
But there is a tear in the eye of the ring master 

 C#5                           B      G#
And a smile on the face of the clown 

 Am                                     C#5
Yeah, you couldn't see through your own arrogance 

            Am            C#5
To what the whole world already knew 

Am                         C#5
You had to keep pushing it past the point 

 C#5                         B    G#
'Til it all crumbled down on you 

 C#5       C5   B5  Am  **
Didn't you towering fool 



(Guitar part again, more like the first one, and then goes into a solo)


** not sure about this part.  I was getting tired of doing this song and 
couldnt figure it out.  So if someone could please figure that part out and send it to me. Thanks