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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:39:20 -0500
From: Sugarkoma@aol.com
Subject: guitar tab: "retard girl" -hole

song: "retard girl"
artist: hole
source: "retard girl" single

verses:E5, C#5
          E5, G5
chorus:E5, A5, D5, D#5, E5,
           E5, B5,
           A5, D5,

retard girl make us sad
retard go girl we understand
well she walks funny
kinda like a pig
gotta hate the retard girl
see the retard girl walking in her school
in the same dress from fourth grade
see the retard girl cross-eyes in her schoolyard
lookin for the friend she made
retard girl, retard girl, retard girl, yeah
dont forget her face
now shines the moon
upon the lake of fire
sucking up the end in the yard
well she walks funny
kinda like a pig
retard girl
hear the retard girl
she walks funny
she dont think like the others do
see the retard girl
squirmin in the mud
throw her in the trash can
see what she does
retard girl, retard girl, retard girl, yeah
dont forget her face
yeah i ask her
whyd you implode?
well her heads so big
it just might explode
and she walks funny
kinda like a pig
gotta hate retard girl
hit her
see the retard girl starin at the sun
what does she see?
see the retard girl starin at everyone
i hope she doesnt see me
retard girl, retard girl, retard girl, yeah
dont forget her face
retard girl, retard girl, the retard girl
dont forget her facespanx.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Commie Badass	#1 by Commie Hunter!!! at Aug 9, 1973 at 5:24 AM EST
	i think the lyrics are interesting

No Picture Jesse Wanna Be	#2 by Jesse ritchie at Oct 18, 1975 at 8:46 AM EST
	himtopia go fuck yourself. Courtney wrote this song about herself as a child. She was shy and people would make fun of her. In an interview about this song she said something like it pisses me off that some people think I'm bashing mentally challenged people with this song when it's really about me. She was also called pee girl when she was younger.

No Picture CJ+182 Rhythm Player	#3 by CJ+182 at Mar 4, 1978 at 4:15 AM EST
	I think it's making fun of people who make fun of retarded people or anyone who's different. Courtney throws it back in their face mimicking them saying, See how cruel you are?

No Picture chOxY Rhythm Player	#4 by chOxY at Jan 8, 1980 at 1:38 AM EST
	wow...this song is just really stupid...it doesn't even have an edgy deeper meaning, i'm guess its trying to satirically imply ignorance but that is way over...no one treats retards like that anymore

No Picture Jonathan Wanna Be	#5 by Jonathan Takish at Sep 7, 1981 at 10:09 PM EST
	I've not heard this song...but the lyrics just caught my attention. I think it probably is about the girl everyone picked on at school. Maybe it is about Courtney, but i don't know. I don't think it's actually about actual retarded people.

No Picture Dark Lead Player	#6 by Dark Avenger at Dec 1, 1983 at 10:03 AM EST
	Itz about courntey!

No Picture Mike Average	#7 by Mike Perron at Sep 13, 1992 at 10:59 AM EST
	Yeah it's about Courtney herself simply 1

No Picture daniel Wanna Be	#8 by daniel seaward at Apr 15, 1993 at 2:54 PM EST
	its the kid that dresses different listens 2 different music etc and the other kids see her as weird

No Picture Steil Wanna Be	#9 by Steil Lionhart at Jul 3, 1995 at 5:40 PM EST
	poppins is so right. this song is about Courtney's childhood. and no one should say 'oh no, it's about retards' cos this song is from hole's first session back in the early 90's, back when being p.c. wasn't the foremost thought in peoples' minds

No Picture dalton Average	#10 by dalton hoffman at Nov 3, 1997 at 7:55 AM EST
	I don't think it's actually about real retarded people, but rather the odd kid at school that everybody picked on for being different. It's okay, but not the best Hole song (although I suppose it was one of the first...)

No Picture sharon Wanna Be	#11 by sharon howell at Jan 7, 2001 at 12:39 AM EST
	okay this is what courtney says in the sleeve of "the first session" CD ... "okay, like "Retard Girl," that's our single. It's about getting picked on in school, anyone who's ever been picked on in a big way, or a small way. I just got this vibe one day about how when I was in school I was really shy and sort of picked on, and I swore that I would never pick on people who were picked on. I pick on people that nobody else picks on. People think that song is making fun of some retarded girl but it's about me! About that feeling of alienation, I was so quiet. I was the quietest person and I got picked on but I changed my ways!" so there you go.

No Picture Squid Average	#12 by Squid at Mar 24, 2001 at 7:39 AM EST
	yeah i reckon this may be about courtney as a child, or at least how the other kids saw her. although im basing this on nothing factual, the lyrical style seems autobiographic.

No Picture Dan Lead Player	#13 by Dan archy at Mar 8, 2006 at 9:29 AM EST
	I think Courtney Love is by far the dirtiest cunt in showbusiness. In her entire career, she can't even clean up and stay sober, not even for her own daughter. World's biggest failure and God's biggest disappointment.

No Picture Kevin Average	#14 by Kevin Barker at Mar 9, 2006 at 7:42 PM EST
	It's about how Courtney felt alienated growing up, through the eyes of a tormentor. It's not ignorant; just cathartic.