Yes Guitar Tab

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YES by 

___Manic Street Preachers___



written by James Dean Bradfield/Richey James/Nicky Wire/Sean Moore
tabbed by someone, amended by Karim Adab



CHORDS :


Main riff (riff 1): 

D-----7-6-------4-6-4-6-(4)----     extra notes in brackets played where "riff 2" is shown
A-6-7-----6-4-6---------------(7)

This goes up an octave at the end of the third verse and can be played using the same
 pattern on the B and E strings :

E-----5-4-------2-4-2-4-(2)---
B-4-5-----4-2-4-------------(5)


E       =  022100
G#m     =  466444
F#m     =  244222
G#m7    =  464444
F#m7    =  242222
A       =  577655
A5      =  577xxx
B       =  799877
C#m     =  xx6654
C#      =  x4666x

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VERSE 1:

riff 1    riff 2
For sale? Dumb cunt's same dumb question
riff 1           riff 2
Virgins? Listen, all virgins are liars honey 
      riff 1                         riff 2
And I don't know what I'm scared of, or what I even enjoy 
riff 1                   riff 2
Dulling, get money back, nothing turns out like you want it to




BRIDGE :

A                               G#m            F#m   E      
In these plagued streets___of   pity   you can buy   anything, for 

C#                               G#m
200 anyone can conceive a god on video


A                     G#m         F#m        E        
He's a boy_______ you want a girl so    tear off his cock

C#                                                     G#m
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him call him Rita if you want___

       B
if you want



CHORUS :



  E                     F#m7                      G#m7 
I eat and I dress and I wash  and I still can say thank  

                      A                           B
 you puking, shaking, sinking,  I still stand for old ladies 

                    C#m                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       
 can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out


^^^^ = play riff below 


E----0000000000000        etc
A--------6h7p6h7p6h7



There you go. Suggestions/rants/love :

Karim Adab
karim@zaki.demon.co.uk

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Julian Average	#1 by Julian . at Oct 13, 1973 at 1:34 AM EST
	Prostitution, obviously.

No Picture GonnaKill Average	#2 by GonnaKill YOU at Jun 6, 1980 at 3:35 PM EST
	Em, I read somewhere (I believe it was the official MSP site) that this song is about 'prostitution of the self', i.e. selling yourself to consumerism.

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#3 by Alex Jurek at Feb 4, 1984 at 2:57 AM EST
	No, I'm sorry, I'm still laughing at this. Too funny.

No Picture metalis4ever Average	#4 by metalis4ever at Jun 23, 1985 at 12:23 PM EST
	Oh jesus. Putting "An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff" rather than a fence at the top is a euphemism. It means fixing the symptoms rather than the cause of a problem. It's a parable, not a true story you dumb fucks! Try not to take everything literally.

No Picture Darren Wanna Be	#5 by Darren Pilton at Mar 30, 2001 at 4:28 AM EST
	What does "I 'T' them" mean? Any thoughts? I love the line: 'And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy'. I've had that feeling before, in terms of not knowing what I enjoy. There are a million things I don't enjoy that I'm told I should, I know that much.

No Picture $~Andrew~$ Average	#6 by $~Andrew~$ at Oct 28, 2005 at 7:58 PM EST
	Just a little footnote from the start of the topic, the quotes at the start and end of the song are from an american documentary that was called "Pimps and their Ho's" if I remember correctly. They were spoken by the pimps, trying to make a sale to a bugged journalist.

No Picture Mike Average	#7 by Mike heidkamp at Oct 5, 2007 at 4:07 PM EST
	Tying in with the entire album this about 'emptiness' and attacking consumerism. Prostitution is used as an analogy, to ignore that leaves out the real songmeaning.

No Picture D-backs, 2006 w Rhythm Player	#8 by D-backs, 2006 world series champions! !! at Oct 5, 2007 at 5:31 PM EST
	The line "he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want " is, in my opinion, about consumerism and an attempt to show the absurdity of the capitlist mantra of "supply and demand." IE, just because somebody wants something doesn't necessarily mean they should get it.

No Picture Terence Average	#9 by Terence Taylor at Oct 11, 2007 at 2:28 AM EST
	matt675, you've got it completely right [in my opinion]. While the song is quite obviously about prostitution, I've read in a lot of places that this could also be about Richey's inability to say yes. "I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out " To me, that whole part is an example of that.

No Picture inaki Wanna Be	#10 by inaki laris at Oct 11, 2007 at 6:51 AM EST
	the intro is- "this one's here, this one's here and this one here. Everything's for sale."

No Picture Jimmy Rhythm Player	#11 by Jimmy at Oct 11, 2007 at 7:09 PM EST
	the intro isnt on here. but it goes something like "you can buy her. you can buy her, you can buy her" over and over. i love the chorus "he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock. tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him rita if you want". it amuses me.

No Picture Carly Average	#12 by Carly at Oct 12, 2007 at 12:33 PM EST
	richeye, www.manics.nl says that 'T' is slang among prostitutes for tossing off clients. matt675 the kitteness and paulothemanio all make great points about the double meanings. Love this song, one of my favorites!

No Picture Ryan Rhythm Player	#13 by Ryan Ruegemer at Oct 16, 2007 at 2:20 AM EST
	I've heard that story, and I also wondered if it was true. What I read was that kids kept playing near the cliff and falling off, and the town decided that putting up a fence would be too expensive, so instead they'd put an ambulance at the bottom. So it was like just waiting for people to get hurt, instead of doing something to prevent it. Pretty sick.