Tablature rats - Pearl Jam

          



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  From: "Andrew Thwing" <n9745610@cc.wwu.edu>

  Subject: ADD:  Rats by Pearl Jam

  Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:09:57 -0800

  

  

  "RATS" by Pearl Jam

  transcribed by Andrew Thwing (andrewthwing@juno.com)

  (h=hammer, /=slide up)

  

  

  

  INTRO (bass arr. for guitar)

      E5

  e|--------------------------------------|

  B|--------------------------------------|

  G|--------------------------------------|

  D|--------------------------------------|

  A|--2--2---0-h2-2-----------------------|

  E|--0--0-----------3-3--3-0-------------|

  

  

  

  variation INTRO riff (use your ears)

      E5

  e|--------------------------------------------|

  B|--------------------------------------------|

  G|--------------------------------------------|

  D|--------------------------------------------|

  A|--2--2---0-h2-2-----------------------------|

  E|--0--0-----------3-3--3-0---2/7--7---2/7----|

  

  

  

  CHORUS:

      A5        B5         C5

  e|------------------------------------------------|

  B|------------------------------------------------|

  G|--2--2------4--4--------5-----------------------|

  D|--2--2------4--4--------5-----------------------|

  A|--0--0------2--2--------3-----------------------|

  E|------------------------------------------------|

    they don't scurry when something bigger comes their way...

  

  

  

  OUTRO:

     Bb5           C5               G5

  e|--------------------------------------------|

  B|--------------------------------------------|

  G|--3-------------5---------------------------|

  D|--3-------------5----------------5----------|

  A|--1-------------3----------------5----------|

  E|---------------------------------3----------|

    then the two of us need look no more...

  

  

  

  There is a little walk down from the A5 B5 C5 thing to the last

  pattern.  Just move the chord down the neck from C5 to Bb5.

  

  USE THE INTRO FOR THE VERSES AND SOLO

   a guitar plays E5

  

  

  

  THE LYRICS:

  

  They don't eat, don't sleep

  They don't feed, they don't seethe,

  bare their gums when they moan and squeak,

  lick the dirt off a larger one's feet

  They don't push, don't crowd,

  congregate until they're much too loud,

  fuck to procreate 'til they are dead,

  drink the blood of their so called best friend

  

  They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way

  don't pack themselves together and run as one

  don't shit where they're not supposed to

  don't take what's not theirs

  They don't compare

  

  They don't scab, don't fight

  don't oppress an equal's given rights,

  starve the poor so they can be well fed,

  line their holes with the dead ones' bread

  

  They don't scurry...etc

  

  (SOLO with verse chords)

  

  They don't scurry...etc

  

  They don't compare

  Rats, they don't compare    (this using A5 B5 C5 still)

  

  Then the two of us need look no more (fading)

  

   


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 Rats, de Pearl jam 

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