Rush: Witch Hunt
From the album Moving Pictures (Mercury Records)
Copyright 1981 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart

Transcription by:
     Mauroavilez@aol.com (Mauro Avilez)

Last Updated: 2003-10-03

I'm a guitarist, and a novice keyboard player.
Chord name may be wrong, but notes played are in paretheses.
The keyboards don't enter until somewhere the middle.
Corrections and additions are welcomed.
Listen to song for exact rhythm.
I'll tab the song by track time.


Key:
w= whole note
w+.q= whole note plus dotted quarter note
w+.h= whole note plus dotted half note
q= quarter note
.q= dotted quarter note
e= eighth note

Intro:
Wind Chimes
Guitar enters (00:06)
glockenspiel, bells and chimes (00:10)
Clock tolls (00:21)
Mob noise enters (00:25)
Glock, bells, chimes continue

At (00:45 until 01:04)
Oberheim or second guitar, sweeping sound with heavy flange

(01:04)
Guitar

(01:12)
The night is bleak without a moon. The air is thick and still.

(01:49)
Features distorted in the flickering light...

(02:05)
Quiet in conscience calm in their right...

(02:13)
|------------|-----C------|-----Gm------Gm--|----Bb---------Bb---|
|------------|--(C,E,G,C)-|-(G,Bb,D,G)------|-(Bb,D,F,Bb)--------|
|------------|-----w+.q---|------e-------q--|-----e---------w+.q-|
|--Oh________|--Oh_______________________________________________|


|----Dm------Dm--|-----C-------C---|---Gm-------Gm--|
|-(D,F,A,D)------|-(C,D,G,C)-------|-(G,B,D,G)------|
|-----e------q---|-----e------w+.q-|----e--------q--|


|----Bb--------Bb---|----Dm------Dm-|-----C--------C--|
|-(Bb,D,F,Bb)-------|-(D,F,A,D)-----|-(C,E,G,C)-------|
|-----e--------w+.q-|----e-------q--|-----e------w+.q-|


|-----F-------F-|-----Gm------Gm---------------|
|-(F,A,C,F)-----|-(G,Bb,D,G)-------------------|
|-----e-------q-|-----e-------w+.q-------------|
|---------------|-----The righteous rise_______|


|----Dm------Dm-|-----C------C------------|
|-(D,F,A,D)-----|-(C,E,G,C)---------------|
|-----e------q--|-----e------w+.h---------|
|---------------------With burning eyes___|



|-------------------------|-----F------F--|----Gm------Gm-------|
|-------------------------|-(F,A,C,F)-----|-(G,B,D,G)-----------|
|-of hatred and ill will--|-----e------.q-|----e-------q--------|


|----Bb-------Bb--------------|--D5----D5-|--C5----C5--|
|-(Bb,D,F,B)------------------|-(A,D)-----|-(G,C)------|
|----e--------w+.q------------|---e----q--|---e----w---|
|-------------Madmen fed on fear and lies--------------|


to beat and burn and kill.

[Guitar continues]

They say they are strangers who threaten us
Our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too

|--------|-----------------B------|------------|------------|
|--------|---------------(B,B)----|------------|------------|
|--------|--------------Played on-|------------|------------|
|- danger| ous.---------the upbeat|-----------|------------|


In our theaters and back store shelves
Those who know what?s best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

(03:37)
(Play chords as above)
|@--Bb---Bb---|--Dm---Dm--|--C--C----|--F--F---|--Gm--Gm--@|
|@---e?-w+.q--|---e---.q--|--e?w+.q--|--e--.q--|---e--.q--@| 6x


Quick to Judge Quick to Anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and Prejudice
And Fear walk hand in hand.


(Last verse)
|------Bb---------Bb---|-----Dm-------Dm--|------Csus2----Csus2--|
|--(Bb,D,F,Bb)---------|--(D,A,D,F)-------|--(C,G,C,D,G)---------|
|------e---------w+.q--|------e-------.q--|-------e---------w----|