Tablature heroin - The Velvet Underground

          



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  From: Paul Zimmerman <IFSXM@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>

  Subject: TAB: Heroin - Velvet Underground

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  VELVET UNDERGROUND

  Heroin

  riff 1:

    D             G             D             G

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

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

  |-2---2---------|-0---0---------|-2---2---------|-0---0---------|

  |-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|

  |---------------|-2-------------|---------------|-2-------------|

  |---------------|-3-------------|---------------|-3-------------|

   

  riff 2:

  |-2----7----9---7----|

  |-3----8----10--8----|        listen to the song to get the timing for

  |-2----7----9---7----|        this part - it isn't broken up into bars

  |-0------------------|        here.

  |--------------------|

  |--------------------|

   

  riff 1 2X

   

  D   G       D    G     D         G       D       G

     I  don't know  just where I'm going

      D        G         D           G            D<---- end of riff 1, strum

  But    I'm       gonna try for the kingdom if I can    this chord, and the

                  G               D                      rest of the chords

  Cos it makes me feel like I'm a man

               G             D

  When I put a spike into my vein

                G                       D

  And I tell ya things aren't quite the same          when you hit the word

           G             D                            "know" at the end of the

  When I'm rushing on my run                        verse, the D chord marks the

        G                     D                    beginning of riff 1 again,

  And I feel just like Jesus' son                 which contintues until the

        G                       D                 "nullify" in the next verse.

  And I guess that I just don't know              this pattern continues thru

        G                        D      G     D       G      the whole song.

  And I guess that I just don't know

   

   

  D     G        D   G         D         G     D

  I         have made a  big decision

  D     G        D    G          D

  I'm      gonna try     to nullify my life

               G               D

  Cos when the blood begins to flow

         G                       D

  And it shoots up the dropper's neck

           G             D

  When I'm closing in on death

   

   

  riff2 2X

   

            G               D

  You can't help me not you guys

                    G                         D

  Oh, all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk

          G             D

  You can all go take a walk

        G                       D

  And I guess that I just don't know

        G                       D      G      D      G

  And I guess that I just don't know

   

   

  D    G      D      G        D               G        D      G

  I       wish that    I was born a thousand years ago

  D    G      D      G                    D

  I       wish that    I'd sailed the darkened seas

       G                 D

  On a great big clipper ship

             G                 D

  Going from this land here to that

           G                 D

  Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap

   

  riff2 2X

   

       G            D

  Away from the big city

          G              D

  Where a man can not be free

             G             D

  Of all the evils of this town

            G               D

  And of himself and those around

            G                       D

  Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

            G                       D      G     D      G

  Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

   

   

  D   G   D   G            D           G       D      G

  Her_____oin,   it'll be the death of me

  D   G   D   G       D               G

  Her_____oin,   it's my wife, and it's my life

            G              D

  Because a mainline in my vein

             G            D

  Leads to a center in my head

               G             D

  And then I'm better off as dead

   

   

  riff2 4X

   

               G               D

  Cos when the smack begins to flow

        G                    D

  Oh, I really don't care anymore

                G                D

  'Bout all the jim-jims in this town

                  G                    D

  And all the politicians making crazy sounds

                G                      D

  And everybody puttin' everybody else down

                   G                  D

  And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam

   

  riff 2  4x

               G               D

  Cos when the smack begins to flow

        G                    D

  And I really don't care anymore

   

  riff 2  2x

                G           D

  When that heroin is in my blood

          G              D

  And the blood is in my head

               G                       D

  Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead

                 G                 D

  And thank your God that I'm not aware

            G                     D

  And thank God that I just don't care

        G                       D

  And I guess that I just don't know

        G                       D      G       D        G

  And I guess that I just don't know

   

  riff1 2X

   

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