| Author: | Leonard | Latest revision: | May 22, 2022 |
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| Author’s Notes: | This is one of Cat’s favorite songs from his Roadsinger album. “It kinda wrote itself,” he later said about the song. The intro, with its nested hammering-ons and pulling-offs, is very melodic and lends itself to some awesome finger-picking. Cat plays the entire piece in his usual fingerstyle, with his thumb and index alone. This song also sounds great on a nylon-string guitar. Our guitar tablature follows Cat’s sittee version of the song in the video below. | ||
| Each guitar tab is the author’s own work and represents his or her own interpretation of the song. Visitors may use the guitar tabs offered here only for private study, scholarship, or research. |
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"All Kinds of Roses"
by Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
from the original album
ROADSINGER (2009)
as played by Cat in a sittee version
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7iTrectDY)
Standard tuning
(low to high) E-A-D-G-B-E
in 4/4 time
INTRO
G C G D/F# G
/ . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / .
E|-------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
B|--0-1--|1h3-----3-----3p1-1p0--|0h1-----1-----1h3-3p1--|1p0-----0-----0h1-1p0--|0h3-----------0-1--|
G|-------|----0-------0----------|----0-------0----------|----0-------0----------|----2---0----------|
D|-------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|----------0--------|
A|-------|-----------------------|0h3---3---3---3---3----|-----------------------|-------------------|
E|--3-3--|--3---3---3---3---3----|-----------------------|--3---3---3---3---3----|0h2---2-3---3-3-3--|
(G) C G D/F# G C/G
/ . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / .
E|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|------------------3----|
B|1h3-----3-----3p1-1p0--|0h1-----1-----1h3-3p1--|1p0-----0-----0h1-1p0--|0h3-----------0h1-1----|
G|----0-------0----------|----0-------0----------|----0-------0----------|----2---0---------0----|
D|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|----------0---0h2------|
A|-----------------------|0h3---3---3---3---3----|-----------------------|-----------------------|
E|--3---3---3---3---3----|-----------------------|--3---3---3---3---3----|0h2---2-3---3----------|
VERSE 1
G C
All kinds of roses, all kinds of roses
G D/F# G C/G
All kinds of roses grow in my gar-den
G C
All kinds of creatures, all kinds of creatures
G D/F# G G/F#
All kinds of creatures run on my land
Em Am
All kinds of children, all kinds of children
Em B7 Em
All kinds of children play in my yard
C G G/F# Em
So many feelings, so many feel-ings
D D/F# G
Flow through my blood
REPEAT INTRO.
VERSE 2
G C
All kinds of people, all kinds of people
G D/F# G C/G
All kinds of people make up my life
G C
All kinds of faces, all kinds of faces
G D/F# G G/F#
All kinds of faces show me their love
Em Am
All kinds of lanterns, all kinds of lanterns
Em B7 Em
All kinds of lanterns light up the dark
C G G/F# Em
But there's only one God, on-ly one God
D D/F# G
Has a place in my heart
REPEAT INTRO.
OUTRO
G C
All kinds of roses, all kinds of roses
G D/F# G
All kinds of roses grow in my gar-den
CHORDS
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Note #1: Cat's fingerpicking style is on full display here
(fingerpicking) in the intro. He simply uses the thumb for the
bass and the index for the treble strings often
hitting the G and B treble strings all at once.
This is reminiscent of his fingerpicking we are
used to from the 1970s.
Note #2: In the verses Cat continues the hammering onto,
(hammering) and pulling off from, the full C major chord
very similiar to the intro.
G C D/F# C/G G/F#
3x0003 x32013 200232 3x2013 2x0003
R----L -RM-IL T--IRM R-M-IR T----L
Em Am B7 D
022000 x02210 x21202 xx0232
-MR--- --MRI- -MIR-L ---IRM
Chord fingering: T = thumb
I = index finger
M = middle finger
R = ring finger
L = little finger
Tablature notation: h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
Playing Cat Stevens 