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S1: Intro/Main Riff:
e--------------
B-12-----------
G--------------
D--------------
A--------------
E--------------
Use a whammy pedal, slowly push down until the pedal
is completely open. (Note : I don't own a whammy pedal,
but I tried it on one and I believe it's set to 8va)
OR
e--------------------
B-12////--21b24------
G--------------------
D--------------------
A--------------------
E--------------------
If you are like me and don't own a whammy pedal,
this sounds alright. Just gradually slide from the 12th
fret up to the 21st or 22nd, and bend up to 24th (1 or
1.5 steps up depending to which fret you slide to)
Pre-Chorus Riff:
e----------------
B----------------
G-4-4-4----------
D-x-x-x----------
A-2-2-2----------
E----------------
Play around 7 times
Chorus Part 1:
e-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------------------
A-0h2-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0h2-0h2-2-2-2-2-5---------
E-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------------------
Chorus Part 2:
e-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-----x-x-0--------x-x-0--------x-x-0--------0----
A-0h2-x-x---2--0h2-x-x---2--0h2-x-x---2--0--------
E-----x-x----------x-x----------x-x---------------
Solo Part 1:
e-------------------------------------------------
B-12-0-0-0--12-0-0-0-12-0-0-0---------------------
G------------------------------12-12-12-12--------
D-------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
Play it fast!
Solo Part 2:
e-------------------
B-12p0-12p0-12p0-12*
G-------------------
D-------------------
A-------------------
E-------------------
*=Push down whammy pedal or
slide & bend up here
Solo Part 2:
e--------------------------
B-19--10----10----10---
G------------11----11----11
D--------------------------
A--------------------------
E--------------------------
With delay so the slide echoes
throughout the little riff.
Lyrics (I don't have the lyric sheet
for this album, so these are wrong,
sorry, but they are just a guess):
I feel the funk blast
I feel the funk blast
I feel the funk blast
Yo yo yo yo yo
check it out
yo yo yo yo
I be walkin' far(?) like Hitar
minoragant, fearless
more and more retractable
like bomb went off of Paris
let's steal from the funds
I always poor madness
this is the native son
who pulled out Zapata's gun
stroll through the sand of
the city's remains
same bodies very hungry
but with different last name
you vultures robbin' everything
leave nothing but change
pick a point on the globe
there's some pictures of Che
there's a bank, there's a church
a vision that hurts
all fallen alone
all shocked and invert
there's a widow pink terrot
all reveled and tame
a white hunted charge
a serenge and face
I'll rhyme me a rhyme or be unheard
Chorus:
Whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say what? (5x)
I'm calm like a bomb
Ignite (10x)
This ain't subliminal
fear the critical mass
of culture rising
bulls from other countries
sell us America's devices
the man you bid leader
rides the shock of the fire
hopes lies in the smoke
of the rebels of the empire
yes the ulachantes in the city's remains
same bodies burried
but with different last names
the vultures robbin' everyone
leave nothing but change
pick a point here at home
there's some pictures of Che
there's a fear for the stage
so cold and so dead
there's a ditch full of bodies
except for the rich
there's a tap on the phone
the silence of stone
with another black screen
I'll be feeling like home
I'll rhyme me a rhyme or be unheard
Chorus:
Whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say what? (5x)
I'm calm like a bomb
Ignite (10x)
Solo
I'll rhyme me a rhyme or be unheard
Chorus:
Whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say whatcha say what? (5x)
I'm calm like a bomb
Ignite (10x)
There's a mass without roots
there's a prison to fill
there's a country's soul
that bleed potional bills
there's a strike and a line
of cops outside the mill
there's a right to obey
and there's a right to kill
(2x)
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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caleb Wanna Be |
#1 by caleb at Aug 8, 1971 at 2:07 PM EST |
| Just to add on to what VoiceofTheVoiceless said, the ku klux klan also used they're uniforms to make people think that they were the ghosts of civil war soldiers that died for the south.... Fuck Tha KKK | |
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Mike Average |
#2 by Mike Fraguglia at Jan 10, 1972 at 3:44 AM EST |
| Very funky song. Meaning is quite marxist which i completely support. Although it probably has nothing to do with it, the song relates to the chartist movement in England in the mid 19th century. | |
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aleXeXeX Rhythm Player |
#3 by aleXeXeX at Feb 7, 1979 at 5:35 AM EST |
| I like the line, "Tha pulse of the condemned/Sound off Americas demise." I think it means that those people who were convicted of crimes because they posed a threat to the goverenment will control the 'revolution'. When they are provoked and their pulse quickens America will fall. ANybody know what it means when he says Same bodies buried hungry/But with different last names. "Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires" I think is a very interesting line. After this revolution you can hope something better will form. But when America first formed the founding fathers wanted our federal government to be decentralized and relatively weak. But the American federal government has some how become as powerful and influential as it is today. If there was a revolution, I doubt a government system in existance would work. There would have to be something completely new. | |
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josh Average |
#4 by josh stagel at Jun 17, 1980 at 9:18 PM EST |
| What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? | |
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Brandon Average |
#5 by Brandon Weathers at Jan 20, 1984 at 4:08 AM EST |
| If the lyric "Widow pig parrot" really is about Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Officer Daniel Faulkner, then my respect for RATM just dropped several notches. To talk about a women whose husband was shot through the eyes and call her husband a pig is pretty bad. Her husband, Daniel Faulkner, was killed by Mumia. The evidence is very strong. Mumia was found at the crime scene with a gun registered in his name that contained bullets that matched the caliber found in Faulkner's brain. Plus, several eyewitnesses testified to their certainty that Mumia was the shooter. Stop insulting the officer's widow!!!!!! And screw the argument that "even if Mumia did it, he was justified." I know some cops and they are generally good people. No one has the right to cap one in the head. The more I think about it, the more Zach de la Rocha pisses me off because he supports BS causes like that (I support some of his non-BS causes, but he makes himself look stupid by signing on to every liberal cause in existence without critical thought). | |
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Dakota Average |
#6 by Dakota Keyes at Oct 27, 1987 at 11:49 PM EST |
| Shit I never saw the reference to the Zapatista movement...wow Lester 91, did you really think anyone needed an explanation of that? | |
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Angus Rhythm Player |
#7 by Angus Young at Sep 6, 1988 at 6:45 PM EST |
| I agree with pretty much all the comments on this page before mine. The only thing which i felt all the previous comments left out is the death penalty. Observe the line "a syringe and a vein". I think it refers to lethal injection, the death penalty of choice in the US. | |
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