Big Dumb Rocket Guitar Tab

Clumsy Tabs:

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David Harrison 
"Big Dumb Rocket" by "Our Lady Peace"
Album: "Clumsy"(1997)

This is a pretty easy song and I'm pretty sure I tabbed
it right so you shouldn't have any complaints or anything
but if you do feel free to e-mail me.

P.S.-TUNE YOUR GUITAR DOWN HALF A STEP
                *********************
                *You can play either*
Intro:          *or both of these.  *
                *********************
E|---------------1110-1110-1110-1110-||
B|-----------------------------------||
G|----45--5~557---8-7--8-7--8-7--8-7-||
D|-2~245--5~557----------------------||
A|-2~223--3~335----------------------||
E|-0~0-------------------------------||


Fill 1:

E|-13-|-15-||
B|-18-|-20-||
G|----|----||
D|----|----||
A|----|----||
E|----|----||


Verse 1:

E|-11~~--------|-11~~--------|-12~~--------|-12~~~-|
B|-----10b~~~r-|-----10b~~~r-|-----10b~~~r-|-------|
G|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------|
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------|


Chorus:              End 1:       End 2:

E|-----|-----|-----| E|---------| E|--6-65~|
B|-----|--6--|-----| B|-3-------| B|-8-----|
G|-----|--5--|--5--| G|-5b~~~~~-| G|-------|
D|--5--|--3--|--5--| D|---------|
A|--5--|-----|--3--|
E|--3--|-----|-----|


Verse 2:

E|-12~~~~-|-12~~------------|-------------|-12~~~-|
B|--------|-----10b~~11~~~~-|-10b~~11~~~~-|-------|
G|--------|-----------------|-------------|-------|
D|--------|-----------------|-------------|-------|
A|--------|-----------------|-------------|-------|
E|--------|-----------------|-------------|-------|


Interlude:

E|-----|-----|-----|-----|
B|-----|-----|-----|-----|
G|-----|-----|--5--|--7--|
D|--7--|--5--|--5--|--7--|
A|--7--|--5--|--3--|--5--|
E|--5--|--3--|-----|-----|


Fill 2:     Fill 3:

E|-------|
B|-------|  B|------|
G|--9~--|  G|-8~7~-|
D|--9~--|  D|------|
A|--7~--|
E|-------|

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture FrEAk!!! Wanna Be	#1 by FrEAk!!! Matis at Jul 3, 1976 at 3:14 PM EST
	best song ever written.

No Picture evan Average	#2 by evan at May 10, 1977 at 2:51 PM EST
	I read somewhere that this song was written about Raine having homicidal urges to kill his friend but I guess they just got the story mixed up. anyways I think it's an awesome song.

No Picture Snap! Crackle! Average	#3 by Snap! Crackle! Josh!! waldenmaier at Aug 22, 1987 at 8:57 PM EST
	I thought this song was about Raine holding a gun for the first time and seeing his friend and wondering what it would be like to fire the gun. Then he talks about how disgusted he is with himself and how he's never felt like this before. He hates knowing that he is holding something that could kill someone and feeling like he could use it. He wants his friend to believe that he has never had these thoughts before and that he has never held a gun, ready to shoot, before.

No Picture eric Rhythm Player	#4 by eric johnson at Aug 11, 1989 at 9:33 AM EST
	"This song is a true story about a friend of mine. We were down south staying at a friend's house and this one person had a really cool looking gun. He told me it was a Beretta. It's like a handgun, a real gun, right? So my friend is in the garage or is out in the back or something and I'm playing with this gun. I used to be this super huge Starsky and Hutch fan. So I'm holding the gun thinking I'm pretty cool I guess. I take the clip out because I don't want to hurt anyone obviously. So I put the clip back in the box thinking, I'm fine. So I go and sneak behind this corner and I can see him with my left eye and I'm gonna scare him when he comes by. So my left eye can see him, and my left eye sees him turning the corner, and I'm holding the gun like this, like Starsky would. And he comes around the corner and I say Bang! and he falls and he's almost in tears. He's laughing and crying, he's not sure what to do. I just pointed a gun at my best friend, alright? But everything's okay because I took the clip out. But I guess these Beretta's are famous for having 13 bullets and there's a bullet still in the chamber." Raine Maida

No Picture Turbo Grom Wanna Be	#5 by Turbo Grom at Jul 15, 1990 at 2:24 PM EST
	hey yeah, that makes sense. the big dumb rocket is the bullet. whoa, i've been wondering about that for a while. big dumb rocket never made sense. raine really has a different way of using words.

No Picture slapslappopslap Badass	#6 by slapslappopslap at Jun 19, 1993 at 1:56 PM EST
	Ya he never actually shot his friend, but he was damn close to it.

No Picture bob Average	#7 by bob bob at Jun 19, 1994 at 6:23 AM EST
	i read a quote from raine that it was about this time his best friend was in the shower, and raine snuck in w/ a baretta pistol, but he had taken the clip out, and when his friend stepped out of the shower, he yelled "BANG!" and it dropped his friend to the floor...then raine held the gun to his friend's head, and his friend yelled "don't you know a baretta has 13 bullets and one in the chamber?!", it never said if he pulled the trigger or not...the story just ended there...

No Picture Maggot Man Wanna Be	#8 by Maggot Man at May 5, 1999 at 8:47 PM EST
	that's the quote...thanks onceagain

No Picture chris Average	#9 by chris at Jan 2, 2003 at 12:22 AM EST
	This song is about the time Raine and his friend were kids playing with a gun. Raine didn't know it was loaded and it went off. The song is set in the moment right after the gun went off and Raine doesn't know if his friend is ok. Hes waited for his next breath to tell him that hes ok and hes praying to God for help, although he never has before.

No Picture tristan Rhythm Player	#10 by tristan drew at Jun 9, 2003 at 2:56 PM EST
	I completly understand the true meaning, the gun thing. But in my version, it's about someone that is too blinded by his surroundings that he can't see the obvious thing that is right in front of him. Oblivious. "the big dumb rocket on your mind" reprensents what the person's thinking about other than what is obvious. My opinion only! : )

No Picture Braxton Lead Player	#11 by Braxton Overby at Nov 13, 2006 at 7:57 AM EST
	I'm not trying to say the gun story is wrong. It's right. Just throwing out another interpretation I had. When I first heard this song when I was younger, I always thought it was about a guy getting together with the girl he wanted, but was afraid that all she wanted was sex. At the risk of sounding immature, the "Big Dumb Rocket" is a reference to his penis. Rocket is a common euphemism for a penis and so is a gun. It doesn't fit entirely, but like I said, it was just an initial interpretation you might find interesting. May sound immature but it does work.