The Last Great Punk Rock Song Guitar Tab

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Band: Say Anything
Song: The Last Great Punk Rock Song


this is a great song. please rate my tab. thanks

~ let ring
/ slide up
 slide down


intro
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|--4~-------------------------|
|--4~---2~---6~-4~--22222222--|
|--2~---2~---6~-4~--22222222--|
|-------0~---4~-2~--00000000--|

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--44-4-66-6-88-8-66-6-99-9-66-6-88-8-66-6---xx-4/6-xx-64--6-16-15-13-11---|
|--xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x---xx-x/x-xx-xx--x--x--x--x--x---|
|--22-2-44-4-66-6-44-4-77-7-44-4-66-6-44-4---xx-2/4-xx-42--4-14-13-11--9---|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
			
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--44-4-66-6-88-8-66-6-99-9-66-6-88-8-1111-11-----4/6--84--16~---15-16~---|
|--xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x--x-x--x-----x/x--xx---x~----x--x~---|
|--22-2-44-4-66-6-44-4-77-7-44-4-66-6--9-9--9-----2/4--62--14~---13-14~---|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
					


verse
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|---4~---xx-4~-----9999-8888-----------------------|
|---4~---xx-4~-----xxxx-xxxx---6666-4444-22222224--|
|---2~---xx-2~-----7777-6666---6666-4444-22222224--|
|------------------------------4444-2222-00000002--|

|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---4-------4------4~-3~-9~-8~----------------------|
|---4~------4~-----x~-x~-x~-x~--6666-4444-22222224--|
|---2~------2~-----2~-1~-7~-6~--6666-4444-22222224--|
|-------------------------------4444-2222-00000002--|



chorus
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
|---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|

|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4~--|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4~--|
|---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2~--|


long bridge
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--44-4-66-6-88-8-66-6-99-9-66-6-88-8-66-6---xx-4/6-xx-64--6-16-15-13-11---|
|--xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x---xx-x/x-xx-xx--x--x--x--x--x---|
|--22-2-44-4-66-6-44-4-77-7-44-4-66-6-44-4---xx-2/4-xx-42--4-14-13-11--9---|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|--44-4-66-6-88-8-66-6-99-999-9-88-8-66-6----4/6--84--16~---|
|--xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-xxx-x-xx-x-xx-x----x/x--xx---x~---|
|--22-2-44-4-66-6-44-4-77-777-7-66-6-44-4----2/4--62--14~---|
|------------------------------------------------------------|


verse 2
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--4~-3~-9~-8~-4~-3~-4~--44-444-444-4444-44-99-999-999-9999-9----------------------|
|--x~-x~-x~-x~-x~-x~-x~--44-444-444-4444-44-99-999-999-9999-9-66666-44444-22222224-|
|--2~-1~-7~-6~-2~-1~-2~--22-222-222-2222-22-77-777-777-7777-7-66666-44444-22222224-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------44444-22222-00000002-|
	                .. ... ... .... .. .. ... ... .... .


reapeat chorus


interlude (2x)
|--------------14-----------------------14-----------------------14------------|
|--------12----------12-----------12----------12-----------12----------12------|
|--13-13----13----13----13--11-11----11----11----11----------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------14-14----14----14----14---|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|--------------14-----------|
|--------12----------12-----|
|---------------------------|
|--14-14----14----14----14--|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|



|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|--6--6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-44-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|--6--6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-44-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
|--4--4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-22-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|
 p.m. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|--66-------------44---------------222222224------xxxxxxxx---|
|--66-------------44---------------222222224------xxxxxxxx---|
|--44-------------22---------------000000002------xxxxxxxx---|
		                 ........

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|---6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
|---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|

|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|---66-xxxx--66-xxxx--44-xxxx--44-xxxx--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4~--|
|---66-xxxx--66-xxxx--44-xxxx--44-xxxx--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4~--|
|---44-xxxx--44-xxxx--22-xxxx--22-xxxx--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2~--|

|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--44-4-66-6-88-8-66-6-99-9-66-6-88-8-66-6---xx-4/6-xx-64---16~----|
|--xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xx-x---xx-x/x-xx-xx----x~----|
|--22-2-44-4-66-6-44-4-77-7-44-4-66-6-44-4---xx-2/4-xx-42---14~----|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15-16-15-11-15-16-18-16--1616161616-1515151515-1111111111111111-9999-8888-8~--|
|---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x---x-x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx-xxxx-x---|
|--13-14-13--9-13-14-16-14--1414141414-1313131313--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7777-6666-6~--|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|------------|
|------------|
|--4~--8~----|
|--x---x-----|
|--2~--6~----|
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Pablo Rhythm Player	#1 by Pablo Muñiz at Apr 6, 1971 at 9:29 PM EST
	You guys are all fucking retarded. This song is so sarcastic it's ridiculous. Listen to his voice, he's blatantly making fun of people who sing like Tom Delonge.

No Picture jga Average	#2 by jga qup at Sep 15, 1978 at 4:51 PM EST
	This song kicks ass.....i LOVE IT...it describes punk almost perfectly and its just the best

No Picture yomomma!! Wanna Be	#3 by yomomma!! at May 16, 1982 at 4:20 AM EST
	i think this song is medioker it was one of the first songs they wrote so its kinda weak they have much better songs.. plus im so sick of hearing the word Punk, its so overused

No Picture maximus Average	#4 by maximus hyrule at Jun 26, 1985 at 8:10 PM EST
	i think its kind of funny, because in a way, its a self-parody. i love how whiny max's voice is in this song

No Picture TonkpilS Average	#5 by TonkpilS at Oct 30, 1985 at 3:13 PM EST
	I agree with vandalgroupie...I'm sick of how people still have an idea of what "punk" should be and try and live up to that idea..be yourself you fuckin morons but yeah essentially I think this song is about how say anything don't "wail about anarchy" because "Anti establishment gets [them] nowhere fast", Max sticks to writing songs which he can relate to and which he feels strongly about, for example his "girl problems", cuz that's what he's good at. I could be wrong...I'm not particularly big on Say Anything so feel free to correct me

No Picture Tyler Average	#6 by Tyler at Oct 19, 1989 at 7:13 PM EST
	sounds like he's making fun of emo music to me, not punk.....he says its going to be the last great punk rock song before he unspikes his hair & starts singing about girls leaving him & girl problems. he says "give me a reason not to cry"....like he's turning emo lol. sounds like he's making fun of the whiny emo music about girls who have left the boys & stuff....so he's saying this is going to be the last great punk rock song before he turns emo.... idk, thats just what i got from the song...

No Picture hey u by the th Average	#7 by hey u by the that thing. SHUTUP!! at Feb 9, 1999 at 1:54 PM EST
	Do any of you have brains??? It's making fun of punks. Get over yourselves. Stop reading into the lyrics. It is literal, all in front of your face. Go overanalyze a different song.

No Picture Justin Rhythm Player	#8 by Justin Lepera at Mar 11, 2003 at 7:15 PM EST
	I lost all respect for Say Anything after hearing this song. tsk, tsk. Whining about girls isnt dumb, but having a cause... thats deffinately dumb.

No Picture Pasquale Average	#9 by Pasquale at Nov 22, 2004 at 6:30 PM EST
	I'm not sure how old any of the above posters are, but in the world I live in, you don't grow out of activism and grow into a world of girl problems. There is a lot of generalizations in this thread, and it especially irks me to hear someone say that "foolish and overly-simple ideals ...mark a lot of punk music". Clearly you have strayed from punk music and into some sort of wanna-be realm like..I don't even know what bands those are, I've never heard them. Say Anything are not punk; post punk maybe, but not punk. That doesnt mean that a lot of Max's influences weren't punkand I think this song is his way of recognizing that his message is relatively shallow when put in the context of his influences. This song may be about growing up, and getting over a phase, but I don't think it's meant to disparage that phase, e.g. : his reference to "acting dumb", I think that is just him being self depricating and moving away from trying to be a die-hard punk. I don't think he's calling die-hard punks dumb.

No Picture † james † Average	#10 by † james † at Jul 8, 2006 at 9:51 PM EST
	Sounds like he's finally giving up on fooling himself that Anti-Flag's a good band. He gives up on the foolish and overly-simple ideals that mark a lot of punk music. He's growing up, finally admitting that the values and morals and whatnot that he tried to believe in just aren't true. At the same time, he's got an appreciation for these ideals.