Year Of The Boomerang Guitar Tab

Evil Empire Tabs:

Year Of The Boomerang by Rage Against The Machine
This Songs pretty easy, easier if you have a whammy pedal
Tabbed by: Aird
Email: yermaw@msn.com
Tuning: Drop D, Order of song is at end of tab.
Intro
E|--12+--------------------------|
B|--12+--------------------------|
G|--12+--------------------------|
D|--12+--------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|--------12---0---2---0---5---0-|
With Digitech Whammy Pedal, Set To Harmonize one octave higher
Riff B
E|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|------------0h2-------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|--2---x--x---------0-----2---x---x----0-------|
No Whammy
Riff C
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------Let Ring----------Let Ring------Let Ring------------------------|
D|--------12+------12+-----7+-----7+-----3------5------3-------------------|
A|------12+------12+------7+-----7+-----3------5------3------10h12---10----|
E|---12+-------12+-------7+-----7+-----3------5------3-------10h12---10----|
Riff D
E|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------------------|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|--4----4-----x--2-----|
Riff E
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------0-------------------------------0--------------|
E|--4-----4----4-----2-----------4--4--4--2----4-----2-----------|
Play This 3 Times then
Fig. 1
E|--4--4--4--4-----4--4----4---------------------|
B|--5--5--5--5-----5--5----5---------------------|
G|--4--4--4--4-----4--4----4---------------------|
D|--6--6--6--6-----6--6----6---------------------|
A|--4--4--4--4-----4--4----4---------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
Fig. 2
E|--15--------------------------------|--15--------------------15-----|
B|-----------15-------------------15--|----------15-------------------|
G|------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
D|-------------------------12---------|------------------12-----------|
A|------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Depress Digitech Whammy pedal so it sounds on octave higher
Riff F
E|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------|
A|-------------------0-----------|
E|--4--4--4--2----4------2-------|
The End							With Delay
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--6---------7------------8-----------9------------9b11-------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
With Delay
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5------------6-----------7------------8-------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------4----------9b11---|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
Intro = 4 Times
Verse 1 = Riff B, 9 Times    Lyrics = Tha Sisters are in...
Interlude 1 = Riff C	       Lyrics = Ah, Power To The People
Verse 2 = Riff B, 3 Times    Lyrics = Bosses right ta live is mine ta die....
Chorus 1 = Riff A	        Lyrics = I got no property
Bridge = Riff D then Riff E then Fig.1
Interlude 2 = Riff C
Verse 3 = Riff B, 8 Times then Fig. 2    Lyrics = Tha Sisters are in...
Chorus 2 = Riff A		Lyrics = I got no property
Outro = Riff F, 2 Times then The End

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/r/rage_against_the_machine/356998.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture rikiscorner Average	#1 by rikiscorner at Jan 10, 1972 at 1:28 PM EST
	Actually, the song is based on a speech by Franz Fanton, an Algerian revolutionary who fought in the anti-imperialist war against France. He claimed that there will be a "Year of the Boomerang" in which all of the misery and inequality that imperialism created will come back and hit global capitalism on the face.

No Picture Obtuse Professional	#2 by Obtuse at Mar 1, 1974 at 7:52 PM EST
	Actually, it goes: "I got no PROPERTY but yo I'm a piece of it." not prosperity. This is talking about communism I believe.

No Picture the white hendr Badass	#3 by the white hendrix at Dec 22, 1974 at 4:10 PM EST
	Wrinkled is also right "Straight incarcerated, the curriculum a cell block" just proves his point. Rage has a couple songs explaining the fact that schools teach some propaganda. While i attended school i was never taught the complete atrosities "White America" did toward the indians. This just proves that everything a teacher teaches may not be completely accurate.

No Picture Kevin Average	#4 by Kevin turbyfill at Oct 6, 1977 at 7:24 AM EST
	rage

No Picture duncan_player Wanna Be	#5 by duncan_player at Mar 14, 1978 at 5:15 AM EST
	all the rage has it right

No Picture Rodney Wanna Be	#6 by Rodney at Mar 28, 1980 at 2:54 AM EST
	Well first of all i just want to say that this whole song is named after a speech Frantz Fanon wrote hence the "grip the cannon like fanon...". Year of the Boomerang is about how all the colonies of britian and france will one day rise up defeat these world powers. Fanon was also big into the France conflict in Algeria and wrote a book called Wretched of the Earth... tried reading it once but well it was kinda boring. INmytree i think the right hes refering to is the conservative/right wing group. also when i think of dogma i think of church and churches are usually rightwing. BUt in all what i see it as is the right wings attempts to destroy civil liberties (hence the patriot act).

No Picture tom Average	#7 by tom jenkins at May 8, 1983 at 1:41 AM EST
	"Actually, it goes: "I got no PROPERTY but yo I'm a piece of it." not prosperity. This is talking about communism I believe." you're wrong, donnie darko. It's about capitalism. you aren't a piece of property in communes -- but think about major corporations, employees are assets, as long as you start losing money because of them, you cut them. think about marx's writings.

No Picture Grunge Hamster Lead Player	#8 by Grunge Hamster at Dec 31, 1994 at 1:42 PM EST
	"'Cause I'm cell locked in tha doctrines of tha Right" more lyrics comparing the school system to the holocaust "Enslaved by dogma, ya talk about my birthrights Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hells gates" enslaved by dogma is relating to the jews being killed because of their religion, and how one of the more basic rights of an american citizen is to recieve an education.

No Picture Laurence Average	#9 by Laurence Alam at Jul 4, 1996 at 6:41 PM EST
	LookOfTerminalShock........Churches require submission and suplication to a master......what could possibly be more fascist in nature... Why no women preiests?

No Picture Chris Average	#10 by Chris Tucker at May 29, 2001 at 9:52 AM EST
	"The bossess right to live is mine to die" refers to the long held Leftist belief that a willing person can effect political change by assasination becasue they are willingto give up their life for a cause. IE you can't kill a revoulutionary and rage also refers to this idea in other songs such as the line "Its my life for their life so we'll call it an even trade". The above is correct that the title does refer to Franz Fanton and the Algerian revolution but not the basis of the lyrics

No Picture Kieran Average	#11 by Kieran Molloy at Apr 16, 2006 at 5:00 PM EST
	i think when he says "pass tha Shells to my classmates" he might be referring to the "conch" from the book Lord of the Flies. the shell in the book was symbolic for voicing one's opinion. the one who held the conch was the one who had the right to be heard.

No Picture Tim Professional	#12 by Tim Marchant at Oct 2, 2007 at 5:42 AM EST
	I'm wondering about the lines, "'Cause I'm cell locked in tha doctrines of tha Right Enslaved by dogma, ya talk about my birthrights Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hells gates" I'm thinking this could be something to do with the hypocrisies of the right-wing, "birthrights" could be referring to their views on abortion, which seem to conflict with their treatment and value of the people.

No Picture Secondhand Smok Wanna Be	#13 by Secondhand Smoka at Oct 4, 2007 at 7:37 AM EST
	jtgober, interesting theory but I always thought it was about putting bullets through the skulls of complacent students. Zach was known for his radical beliefs, which weren't exactly always non-violent

No Picture Zach Average	#14 by Zach at Oct 9, 2007 at 3:38 AM EST
	i think this song is about zack's years as a teenager

No Picture Devin Average	#15 by Devin Moreno at Oct 12, 2007 at 4:47 PM EST
	"This European opulence is literally scandolous, for it has been founded on slavery, it has been nourished with the blood of slaves and it comes directly from the soil and the subsoil of the under-developed world." -Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.