#------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# #This file is the author's work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Jerusalem * Yes, I've finally done it. I guess all the harassment finally payed off ...Now you can stop bothering me. " You don't have to but it sounds better to me if you add a capo to the 1st fret... :) transcribed by Tony Chords: G :320003 C :x32013 Gf:332010 @ :x54035 ( i don't know what to call this chord... so it's just "@" to me) g/f# :200233 (use your thumb for the 2 on the thick E string) Em/g :022033 D : 000232 Intro ( when you do the slide... keep the fingers on the strings and slide the whole hand to different frets.. you will notice that the chord patter is still the same...) G.... C.. G.....C...G.... C slide @ slideback C.. G.. C slide @ slideback C.. G... +1 more time.... Gf.... G g/f# When I tell you that I love you Em/g C Don't test my love G C G Accept my love don't test my love C D G C @ C G (always use the slide on C @ C) Cause maybe I don't love you all that much ***These should be all the chords that you need... play around... you should be able to figure out the rest...most of the song is just going back and forth from C to G... check out the audio wav file that I'm gonna upload in the audio files section of the website... for help...**** Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight Just stay awhile Hear for yourself awhile And if you must put me in a box Make sure it's a big box With lots of windows And a door to walk through And a nice high chimney So we can burn burn burn Everything that we don't like And watch the ashes Fly up to Heaven Maybe all the way to India I'd like that All the ancient kings came to my door They said, "Do you want to be an ancient king too?" I said, "Oh yes, very much But I think my timing's wrong" They said, "Time is relative Or did you misread Einstien?" I said, "Do you really mean it?" They said, "What do you think we come here for Our goddamn health or something?" Everybody's waiting for the messiah The Jews are waiting The Christians are waiting Also the Muslims It's like everybody's waiting They've been waiting a long time I know how I hate to wait Like even for a bus or something An important phone call So I can imagine How darned impatient Everybody must be getting So I think it's time now Time to reveal myself I am the Messiah I am the Messiah I am the Messiah Yes, I think you heard me right I am the Messiah I was gonna wait till next year Build up the suspense a little Make it a really big surprise But I could not resist It's like when you got a really big secret You're just bursting to tell someone It was kinda like that with this And now that I've told you I feel this great weight lifted Dr. Nusbaum was right He's my therapist He said get it out in the open I spent ten whole days in Jerusalem Mmmm Jerusalem Sweet Jerusalem And all I ate was olives Nothing but olives Mountains of olives It was a good ten days I like olives I like you too So when I tell you that I love you Don't test my love Accept my love Don't test my love 'Cause maybe I # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #________________________________________________________ # Kurt By Dan Bern Transcribed by Justin (capo 3) Intro: G G/F# Em G G/F# Em G Em C D G When Kurt Cobain blew out his brain C Em G G/F# Em All the little girls they cried like rain G Em C D G And as for me I felt the pain C Em G G/F# Em But I got no T-shirts left to stain G Em C D G For Kennedy and Jesse James C Em G G/F# G And Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain G Em C D G You can hear them crying down the lane C Em G G/F# Em From Portland to Maryland from Greece to Spain G Em C D G As my life drips like coffee down the drain C Em G G/F# Em My eyes dry up like a rusty chain G Em C D G So Kennedy and Jesse James C Em G G/F# G Will have to cry for Kurt Cobain G Em C D G It's a hard life and no one's to blame C Em G G/F# Em When God's not on the morning train G Em C D G If Cain don't kill Abel, Abel kills Cain C Em G G/F# Em And tears now shed are shed in vain G Em C D G For Kennedy and Jesse James C Em G G/F# G And Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain G Em C D G There's three new roses growin' in the lane C Em G G/F# Em It was a long hard winter, but now there's rain G Em C D G If you want my tears tell me your name C Em G G/F# Em Give me your hand let me feel your pain G Em C D G But for Kennedy and Jesse James C Em G G/F# G There's Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain Hannibal By Dan Bern Transcribed by Justin (drop D tuning, capo 2) D F D Let the niggers burn down nigger town F G A Step aside for burning and looting A G F D But if they set foot in Beverly Hills F G D Time brother, brother time to start shooting D F D Everything everybody has in their homes F G A Will be taken away next week Wednesday G F D And everything everybody ever believed F G D Will be disproved next week Friday G D A I'm going down to Hannibal F G D Gonna buy a new suit of clothes D F D Hitler never hurt a soul I read it in a book F G A That I finished up just this morning A G F D I was happy and I just couldn't wait to tell the good news F G D To all of my dead uncles D F D When they tore down the Berlin wall F G A Everybody danced G F D But between what I feel and what I say F G D There's a thirty foot barbed wire fence G D A Going down to Hannibal F G D Gonna buy a new suit of clothes A F G D F G D Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey A F G D F G D Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey D F D The world is one big cosmic joke F G A Played on me, I hear A G F D And as soon as I leave this room F G D All of you are going to disappear D F D Time begins to bend and shift F G A Maybe you haven't noticed A G F D Just the other day a man in Washington state F G D Admitted killing Jesus G D A Going down to Hannibal F G D Gonna buy a new suit of clothes D F D I'm six foot tall and 180 pounds F G A I can punch through a wall with my fist A G F D But I don't understand how with just one kiss F G D You can wrap me around your finger F G D You can wrap me around your wrist D F D Everybody who has ever ever been alive F G A Is alive today in Georgia A G F D As for the rest of us, I don't even know who we are F G D It's a mystery I guess G D A I'm going down to Hannibal F G D I'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes D F D You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad F G A He learned it all from his A G F D And his dad just happened to be F G D Wrong about everything D F D I'm going down to Hannibal F G A I'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes A G F D I'm going to wear three neckties F G D You're going to help with the bows F G D You're going to help with the bows F G D You're going to help with the bows F G You're going to help with the A F G D F G D Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey A F G D F G D Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey Live Another Day By Dan Bern Transcribed by Justin (capo 5) G Sometimes I walk and wish LA D Was some small town near Monteray C I close my eyes and ask the Gods D To make those Cadillacs dusty dogs C D G C I close my eyes and live C D G I close my eyes and live another day G Sometimes I think I'll melt away D And in the sidewalk cracks I'll stay C And who will notice, who will call D Whose life would change much, if at all C D G C I close my eyes and live C D G I close my eyes and live another day C D Another day so far G D Em From the farms where I grew up C D Another day, another day C D Another day so far G G/F# d From that single pair of eyes C That speak to me of home D Not another night alone harmonica solo (same chords as regular verse) C D Another day is done G G/F# Em I lay my eyes to rest C D There is food, I got a bed C D There's a roof over my head G Sometimes I think that everyone D Really speaks a foreign tongue C Like I say X and you hear Y D But I push these thoughts from my mind C D G C And close my eyes and live C D G I close my eyes and live another day C D G C I close my eyes and live C D G I close my eyes and live another day Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues By Dan Bern Transcribed by Justin G C I don't know what made me go out that night D At that hour I'd have normally been in bed G C But I found myself lookin' up at the sky D G At a very bright light straight overhead C It flashed green D Then Red G Santa Claus colors I stood there frozen in that light Then I started hearin' this kind of whir The lights got louder and the noise got brighter And I felt a sudden chill Brrrrrrrr It was cold I shouldn't have gone out without a coat My mom was right again Then this big old spaceship floated down And hovered 3 feet above the Earth Never been so scared in all my life Could've given spontaneous birth If I was a woman And pregnant Then these two little guys about 4 feet tallJumped off that space age Greyhound bus They grabbed me by the arms and said "Start walking, Dan. You're coming with us" Abduction They didn't actually speak, but I understood 'em Telepathy They strapped me down to this metal crate Took out the 35-foot long hose They said "Don't worry, this won't hurt" Then they shoved that sucker up my nose All the way up I knew my nose way long, but this was a suprise They examined me from head to toe Stuck prods in every orifice This cold gray box came and gave me a kiss Then extracted a coupld of quarts of piss I felt dehydrated Then they waved this wand around my head Said, "Now we're reading your thoughts, you see You got an awful lot of songs in there Though it seems they're all in the key of G" I said "What about Marilyn? That's in D" They said "D flat, actually" I said, "Yeah, because I tune it down a half step What about Hannibal?" They said "What about Hannibal?" I said "Well, technically, it's in G But it's really a dropped D tuning capo'd up" They said "How come you don't play the harmonica more?" I said "How come I'm in a space ship Talking to aliens about my act?" They said, "We'd rather talk physics But you're illiterate there" Couldn't argue They dropped me somewhere in Brazil Took a month to get back to the USA When I told my friends what I'd been through No one believe what I had to say That sucked It's to be expected, though Most people think Hannibal's in straight tuning Well, my life's back to normal now I do the things I always do 'Cept once a week I meet with 12 Other folks who've been abducted too I tell my story They tell theirs I don't believe them, though Oklahoma By Dan Bern and Chris Chandler Transcribed by Justin G D On the 19th day of April A D In 1995 D There was the worst car bombing A D Near 200 people died G D In Oklahoma City A D On Wednesday nine o'clock D They struck the federal building A D Took out near half the block G D They thought it was an earthquake A D Made trees and lightpoles bend D And folks thought they were seeing A D The world about to end G D It blew the building open A D It lay there like a wound D Twisted pipes and wires A D Silent like a tomb G D Yeah, they blew the building open A D And blew folks lives apart D Firefighters mumbling A D And wondering where to start G D They rushed out some survivors A D But soon could only cry D And place the dead in caskets A D And ask the dear lord why G D Prayer for the missing A D For daughters and for sons D Prayers for the souls of those A D Who'd never heard a one G D Kevin Small was lucky A D His clock needed repair D He overslept an hour A D His three-year old son was spared G D But for too many others A D The news was not so bright D One baby got her picture in the paper A D Then she died G D The President, he promised A D They'd pay dearly for the blast D and all across the country A D Flags were flying at half mast G D Shock soon turned to anger A D "Who would do this?" people said D And everyone suspicious A D Had a price upon their head G D They thought it was some Arabs A D And folks began to scream D "First tighten up the borders A D Then hang 'em from a tree" G D This proves what we've been saying A D 'Bout our fair and gentle land D Nobody who did this A D Could be an American" G D The FBI got busy A D Some drawings and some names D And everyone was looking A D For someone else to blame G D Some 50 hours later A D Early Friday day D They found the man they wanted A D In jail ten miles away G D A so-called right extremist A D A patriot government foe D An expert on explosions A D And white as drive snow G D When people heard the news they found it A D Hard to understand D How could such a murderer A D Come from our own land G D But when we build walls and borders A D From fear and hate and guns D The hatred turns around and A D Strikes at everyone G D Maybe now we'll understand A D Maybe now we'll see D Superpatriots are seldom A D Friends of you and me G D They're scared and weak and cowards A D And they think that with their guns D The ones they're most afraid of A D Will turn around and run G D But when we stand strong together A D And let love enjoy its will D Misfortune can't defeat us A D It makes us stronger still G D Like on the 19th day of April A D In 1995 D A day all Oklahomans will A D Remember all their lives