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YERTLE THE TURTLE - Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Tabbed by:Yaneey from the backwoods
Email:yaneey@freemail.hu
Tuning:standard
Played with wah-wah pedal.
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Intro |
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(before and at the start of the verses)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---00000-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---55555-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---55555-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------6-6/8-8----------------------------------------------------------|
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Main riff |
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(through the most of the verses)
G5 Bb5 C5
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---12-----12--xxx----------------------------------------------------------|
D|---12-----12--xxx--8--/---10---xxx-----------------------------------------|
A|---10-----10--xxx--8--/---10---xxx-----------------------------------------|
E|-------------------6--/---8----xxx-----------------------------------------|
Move that leg up&down on the wah-wah pedal!
Bb5 and C5 chords are not recorded on the CD (because of the trumpet),
but they're used at concerts.
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Bridge |
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"...He piled them high
Into a ten turtle stack
I'm Yertle the turtle The things I now rule
I'm king of a cow I'm king of a mule
(Look at that turtle go,bro!)..."
Here comes the bridge.
G5 Bb5 C5 *************
G5 Bb5 *G5 : 355xxx*
G5 Bb5 C5 *Bb5: x133xx*
G5 Bb5 *C5 : x355xx*
C5 Bb5 *C#5: x466xx*
G5 Bb5 C5 D5 *D5 : x577xx*
G5 C#5 C5 *************
And then some G5 B5 C5.
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Outro |
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G5 Bb5 C5
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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FUCK Rhythm Player |
#1 by FUCK OFF at Jun 17, 1979 at 8:58 AM EST |
| summat ive also only recently noticed is the burping sounds. during the song at times you hear a burp, and i guess thats linking to the original story version. For example theres one around 3.02 into the song. thats just the last one i heard cause its playing atm. | |
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Josh Lead Player |
#2 by Josh Ripley at Jan 19, 1981 at 6:20 PM EST |
| I couldnt resist posting something on this song. Im sitting here just laughing because someone truly understands what a great song this is. from the title to the turtle i love it all. Im working on a cover of a dr suess book myself, but i must bow to the masters of wicked lyrics involving abstract situations involving animals. Except possibly Jack Off Jill | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#3 by Justin Neafsey at Apr 1, 2001 at 8:19 AM EST |
| More seriously...RHCP have done a lot of songs about social change. And this is definitely about social change, albeit involving turtles in a pond, but still social change. | |
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Ultra Violet Average |
#4 by Ultra Violet at May 23, 2005 at 7:27 AM EST |
| what the song or about the drugs???? this is an amazing song but dont hurt me for saying this but george cliton is by way better than any other funk stuff. he probally helped make this song. | |
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Basstard Professional |
#5 by Basstard at Jun 3, 2006 at 8:23 PM EST |
| Heh... My English teacher had us doing a project on Midieval ballads, and at the end, she let us bring in a modern day ballad to play. Well, the qualifications she gave us for ballad were rhyme, chorus, and relation of a story. . . So I brought in Yertle the Turtle... I mean, Hell, it fits... Most people don't listen to anything the Peppers wrote before Blood Sugar, and aren't even aware that albums like Freaky Styley exist, or, if they are, are only aware of singles... so, needless to say, I was the only kid in class that had heard this song before, or was even aware that it existed. Once my teacher picked up on the lyrics, she screamed and hugged me and made me burn her a copy. :-D I've created another fan.... and this one's a 50 year old AP British Lit teacher :-D | |
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