Tablature blank generation - Richard Hell

          



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  Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 18:16:02 -0700

  From: Gabriel Legba Wintermute <pat1@mail.loop.com>

  Subject: TAB: Blank Generation by Richard Hell

  

  This song is very very similar to the Stray Cats' "Stray Cat Strut" in 

  pacing and feel, though this is played with a distortion guitar. The 

  lyric pacing is weird--if you have the album, you might want to listen 

  to it a few times before you attempt to sing it.

  

  There is an intro which is lead; I don't play lead, and I couldn't even 

  figure out the chords. If anybody knows them, let me know. The main part 

  of the song seems to be power strummed chords. Anyway, here it is...

  

  

  

  Richard Hell and the Voidoids--Blank Generation

  

  

  I was sayin' let me out of here

  Em    D             C      B

  

  Before I was even born

              Em    D

  

  It's such a gamble when you get a face

              C               B

  

  It's fascinatin' to observe what the mirror does

  Em        D           C              B

  

  But when I die it's to the wall that I set my face

      Em     D               C           B

  

  Chorus: I belong to the blank generation, and

  	Em  D           C     B

  

  I can take it or leave it each time, well

  Em    D          C             B

  

  I belong to the ----- generation

  Em  D                 C   B

  

  I can take it or leave it each time

  Em    B7         Em            Em

  

  Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)

  Em   D    C    B

  

  

  Triangles falling at the window as the doctor cursed

  Em        D              C             B

  

  He was a cartoon, long forsaken by the public eye

  Em       D                C            B

  

  The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first

  Em          D          C            B

  

  The doctor grabbed my throat and said, "God's consolation prize!"

  Em         D                     C                 B

  

  

  CHORUS

  

  Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)

  Em   D    C    B

  

  (repeat)

  

  To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash

  Em          D        C                B

  

  Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in your vacant--lot 

  Em                D                    C                       B

  

  Then lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks

  Em           D                    C                    B

  

  And hold beneath my eyelids every passing thought

  Em         D                C     B

  

  CHORUS

  

  CHORUS (quietly)

  

  Oooo oooo oooo oooo

  Em   D    C    B

  

  Oooo oooo oooo oooo

  Em   D    C    B

  

  Waah oooooooo

  B7   Em (pick strings)

  

  

   


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 Blank generation, de Richard hell 

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