Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Written by Francis Michael Rossi, 
Recorded by Status Quo, 1968.

I know, the sheet music's out, but (1) no one has put it on any of the archives
that I know of, and (2) the sheet music is out of order. The parts are all 
there, and are ordered correctly (and translated into TAB) here.
All notes are struck, unless in parentheses. #### denotes a half-rest,
(half) is a half-note, } is a quarter-rest,
|-- is an eighth note (above the TAB lines), and |== is a sixteenth note.

     RIFF A:
      (C)        (Eb)             (Bb)        (F)
      |--|--|--|  |--|--|--|      |--|--|--|  |--|--|--|
e:----|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|---|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|---|
B:---13-13-13-13-11-11-11-11--|--15-15-15-15-13-13-13-13---|
G:----------------------------|----------------------------|
D-----------------------------|----------------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|

      (C) 
      |==|--|----|----|    |----|----|----|
e:----|--|--|----|----|----|----|----|----|---|----------|
B:---11-12-13---13---13---13---13---13---13---|---O--/---|
G:--------------------------------------------|-----/----|
D:--------------------------------------------|----/-----|
A:--------------------------------------------|---/--O---|
E:--------------------------------------------|----------|

     FILL B:
    (half)  |----|    |==|--|        |    |      |----|    |==|--|
e:----------|----|----|--|--|----|---|----|------|----|----|--|--|----|
B:-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
G:--12----(12)--14---15-14-15----|--14---12----(12)--14---15-14-14----|
D:-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
A:-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
E:-------------------------------|------------------------------------|

     FILL C:
  (half)  |---|    |==|--|
e:--------|---|----|--|--|----|
B:----------------------------|
G:-----------14---15-14-15----|
D:--14--(14)------------------|
A:----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|

     RIFF D:
   (G)       |==|==|==|  |       (C)      |==|==|==|  |
e:-----------|--|--|--|--|----|----------12-13-12-10-12----|
B:----------12-13-12-10-12----|----------------------------|
G:----------------------------|----------------------------|
D:--####----------------------|--####----------------------|
A:----------------------------|----------------------------|
E:----------------------------|----------------------------|

     FILL E:
  (Bb)   (Ab)
e:--------------------------|----------------------------|
B:--------------------------|----------------------------|
G:----------12--13--12--13--|-10-----}--12--13--12--13---|
D:--####--}-----------------|----------------------------|
A:--------------------------|----------------------------|
E:--------------------------|----------------------------|

                          PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN

Slow beat (4/4).
INTRO: RIFF A (lead gtr only)
RIFF A (full band. The rhythm part goes:)

|  C      Eb      | Bb       F     |   C             |              |
| <r>     <r>     | <r>     <r>    |  <r>     <r>    | <r>     <r>  |
| <e>  |  <e>  |  | <e>  |  <e>  | |  <e>  |  <e>  | | <e>  |  <e>  | (Rhy
| <s>  |  <s>  |  | <s>  |  <s>  | |  <s>  |  <s>  | | <s>  |  <s>  |  Fig 1.)
| <t>     <t>     | <t>     <t>    |  <t>     <t>    | <t>     <t>  |


VERSES: (Rhythm guitar plays the first half of Rhy Fig 1, and then the
following rhythm, with the wah-wah pedal, over each line:)

|  C     Eb        |  Bb       F      |
|  |  |  _______   |  |  |  _______   |   (Rhy Fig 2.)
|  |  |  | | | |   |  |  |  | | | |   |
|                  |                  |

C              Eb            Bb              F             C      Eb Bb F
When I look up to the sky, I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow ...

       C              Eb              Bb            F             C     Eb Bb F
I rush home to bed, I soak my head, I see your face underneath my pillow ...

  C                  Eb                            Bb        F
I wake next morning, tired still yawning, see your face come peeking through

       C      Eb Bb F
    my window ...

(Now, comes the phasing/flanging, over a 2-bar 4/4 pattern, with FILL B.)
CHORUS: (with rhythm a la Rhy Fig 1.)

F           G                  C   (with FILL C)
Pictures of matchstick men and you,

F          G                  C    (with FILL C)
Mirages of matchstick men and you,

F          G               C       (then Rhy Fig 2, twice. Then, suddenly:)
All I ever see is them and you ... 

|  G     (RIFF D) |  C      (RIFF D, continued) |
|  >  >           |  >  >                       |
|  |  |           |  |  |                       |
|  |  |           |  |  |                       |
|                 |                             |

RE-INTRO: 
RIFF A, lead gtr only
RIFF A + Rhy Fig 1, full band

BRIDGE: (rhythm a la Fig 1, with changes:)
|  r  Ab  r  /  |  r  /  r  |  r  Eb  r  / |  r  Bb  r Ab  |  r  /  r  /  |
(where r means rest, a chord means strike that chord, / means strike the
previous chord.)

Ab                            Eb                              Bb Ab (w/ FILL E)
Windows echo your reflection, when I look in their direction, gone.

Ab                                 Eb                            
When will this haunting stop, your face, it just won't leave me a-

G (+RIFF D) C (+RIFF D, continued)
lone.

(CHORUS, Rhythm a la Rhy Fig 1:)
F           G                  C   (with FILL C)
Pictures of matchstick men and you,

F          G                  C    (with FILL C)
Mirages of matchstick men and you,

F          G               (C) (This C coincides with the next one.)
All I ever see is them and you -

(With Rhy Fig 2, 3 times:)
C          Eb              Bb                 F                 (C)
 (you) You in the sky, you with this guy, you make men cry, you lie,

C          Eb              Bb                 F                 (C)         
 (lie) You in the sky, you with this guy, you make men cry, you lie.

C  Eb Bb F (No lyrics. Then, on cue:)

RIFF A (lead gtr only)

OUTRO: (With RIFF A and Rhy Fig 1; repeat and fade.)
C           Eb              Bb          F
Pictures of matchstick men, pictures of matchstick men,

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