Screeching Weasel › I Wanna Be A Homosexual Guitar Tab

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Send "I Wanna Be A Homosexual" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

[Notes]
* (chord)^ = chord is arpeggiated
* All E chords are X 7 9 9 X X X and all F# chords are X 9 11 11 X X X.
* Lyrics are my best guess, as a sheet is not included with the album.

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["I Wanna Be a Homosexual"]

Lead intro:
(rhythm chords):     B^    E^   C#^         E^    B^  E^
E----------12-11----------------12-11--------------------------11-
B--(bass)--------12--(bass)--12-------12----12----12--12-12-12----
G----------------------------------------11-----------------------

          C#^                E^          B^                E^
E----------------------------12-11-------------------------12-11--
B--12-----12----12----12-12--------12----12----12----12-12--------
G-----11-----11----11-----------------11----11----11--------------

         C#^               E^            B                    E
E----------------------------------------14--14-14--14-14-14--14--
B--12----12----12----12----12----12-------------------------------
G-----11----11----11----11----11----11----------------------------

                    C#                   E                    B
E--14-14--14-14-14--14--14-14--14-14-14--14--14-14--14-14-14--14--
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------

                   E                   C#                  E
E--14-14--14-14-14-15-14-14--14-14-14--14--14-14--14-14-14-12-11-----
B----------------------------------------------------------------12--
G--------------------------------------------------------------------

   B                       E                       C#
E-----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11--
B--12----------12----------12----------12----------12-----------
G---------------------------------------------------------------

               E                       B
E-----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11--
B--12----------12----------12----------12----------12-----------
G---------------------------------------------------------------

   E                       C#                      E           B         
E-----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11----11-12-11-12-11-12-11----|
B--12----------12----------12----------12----------------------12-|
G-----------------------------------------------------------------|

[B / C# / E] x2

[Verse]:
B                                                  C#      E
  I got a little list and I've been working out my limp wrist
B                                                 C#        E
  See you in orange drag(?), I think I wanna be a faggot, man
B                                   C#    E        B
Mincing ninny(?), prince and fairy, merry little queen
                                                  C#      E
A fruit-splitter's(?) wet dream, a dance boy with wing(?)

[Chorus]:
B         F#    G#         E      B
  I wanna be, I wanna be a homosexual
        F#  G#         E      B
I wanna be, wanna be a homosexual
        F#  G#         E      B
I wanna be, wanna be a homosexual
        F#  G#  E
I wanna be

[Verse]:
Shock the middle class, take it up your punk rock ass
You rub your little thing when you see phony dykes in Penthouse magazine
So what's the difference, Mister Greenwrench (?), you just need a man
A beefy little fag to take you out in drag, oh yeah

[Repeat chorus]

[Bridge]:
E           F#                D#                         G#
  Call me a faggot, call me a butt-lovin', fudge packin' queer
        E                               F#
I don't care cause it's the straight in straight edge
              D#               G#            E               F#
That makes me wanna drink your beer and be a pansy, and be a homo

[Verse]:
Shock the middle class, take it up your punk rock ass
You rub your puny thing when you see studs with tight jeans pass you on the
street
Who wears short shorts, you wear short shorts, you're so full of ***
Why don't you admit you don't have the balls to be a queer

[Repeat chorus and end on B]

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Mr. Always Mezm Average	#1 by Mr. Always Mezmerized (o)(o) at Jul 21, 1974 at 11:52 AM EST
	I belive much of this song is against those in the punk scene who don't accept Homosexuals. Select groups of Straightedge and Hardcore crowds due tend to be anti-gay, which is where the line "it's the straight in straight edge that makes me wanna drink a beer " comes from.

No Picture caleb Wanna Be	#2 by caleb at Apr 26, 1976 at 8:54 PM EST
	Friggin queers... Just Kidding, this song is great. I think it's very important for everyone in the world to hear the message (being gay is totally cool) this song puts across. I have several gay friends and am definately not a homophobe.

No Picture Trey Average	#3 by Trey Davis at Mar 7, 1994 at 4:11 PM EST
	as told by Ben Foster in the liner notes of Kill the Musicians While in Berkeley, we recorded three songs at Sergay's Recording Emporium: "I Wanna Be Homosexual" and "Kamala's Too Nice" (later re-recorded for "My Brain Hurts" with slightly different lyrics) for Very Small Records' What Are You Pointing At? 10" compilation and "Slogans" for an all-Chicago bands 7" compliation entitled There's A Fungus Amongus. "Homosexual" was written at the suggestion of Homocore pioneer/fanzine editor/filmmaker Bruce LaBruce who had heard about Sloppy Seconds' "I Don't Want to Be Homosexual" and thought we should respong (and for thre record-we never felt that the Sloppys' tune was homophobic, nor did we ever have any animosity toward the band-we just thought it would be funny). Bruce wrote a few lines and I made up the rest as I sang in the studio. "Kamala's Too Nice" was written at our friend Kamala's house in Emeryville, CA (where we were staying) about twenty minutes before we left for the studio. The records on which these songs appear are long out of print, and we've put our second version (which actually has lyrics instead of babbling) of "Homosexual" on this collection ("Slogans" was re-recorded for My Brain Hurts with different lyrics, as was "Kamala" and, from the Punkhouse sessions, "Fathead"). The first version of "Kamala" is included here.

No Picture Daron Average	#4 by Daron Malakian at May 2, 1999 at 10:39 PM EST
	when i first heard this song, i was pissed. while i'm not gay myself, i am tired of the way the media portays them. but, this song really tells that you can be gay and cool. some people just are brave enough to get that.

No Picture D.J Wanna Be	#5 by D.J Mortensen at Mar 31, 2006 at 7:44 PM EST
	Very good song..i like the message behind it..i agree partially with Flex, but i also think it's saying that being homophobic isn't cool, because it takes a lot of guts to be openly gay, and being homophobic doesn't take anything at all, because homophobes are the "majority"....this song can be read in so many different ways to mean so many different things.