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"Hell"
by The Squirrel Nut Zippers
>From their second album "Hot"
Track 7
Transcribed by
Ben Brown
This really easy to play-it consists of only two chords:
Dm A
e ---5--- e ---5---|
B ---6--- B ---5---| Rhythm = Straight up and down
G ---7--- G ---6---| strum, emphasizing
D ---7--- D ---7---| first of every four
A ---5--- A ---7---| downstrokes
E ---5--- E ---5---| 3 measures Dm
3 measures A
1 measure Dm
[Dm]In the afterlife
You could be headed for the [A]serious strife
Now you make the scene all day < Chorus
But tomorrow there'll be [Dm]Hell to pay
Intro Dm A
Chorus x 2
People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity[A]
I used to think the idea was obsolete
Until I heard the old man stamping his [Dm]feet
Chorus |-------------|
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Instrumental | Hi |
| Mom |
This is a [Dm]place where eternally | |
Fire is applied to the body[A] |-------------|
Teeth are extruded and bones are ground
Then baked into cakes which are passed around[Dm]
Chorus
Instrumental
[Dm]Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement
Top skill and [A]brain
But all the things you try to hide
Will be revealed on the [Dm]other side.
Chorus
Instrumental
[Dm]Now the D and the A and the M and the N
and the A and the T and the [A]I-O-N X2
Lose your face, lose your name
Then get fitted for a [Dm]suit of flame
Outro
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Gladis Wanna Be |
#1 by Gladis McHumphry at Nov 20, 1973 at 10:28 AM EST |
| Maybe he means to that idea in general, that pancakes are the devil's food. | |
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Josh Average |
#2 by Josh Braun at Feb 20, 1974 at 5:25 AM EST |
| one of my favourites. | |
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Derek Lead Player |
#3 by Derek O'Kanos at Dec 14, 1974 at 3:54 AM EST |
| Ugh, these lyrics are atrociously wrong ... | |
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Lex Average |
#4 by Lex Nafrodosze at Aug 28, 1982 at 10:46 PM EST |
| Uhh.. Evil as pancakes may be, I don't think that's what the song is about. It's about how you can't cover any thing up in blazes. | |
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Sara Average |
#5 by Sara Sunshine at Nov 21, 1986 at 11:07 PM EST |
| The lyrics are intentionally, playfully bad. Some of that, you can see from the text, but they also deviate, intentionally, from a natural flow in the song. Sticking adverbs at the end of the first and fifth lines when you'd expect an indirect object, poor rhymes, numerous passive voice verbs when active would make more sense, lines that fail to build on what came before ("cakes which are..." What scary thing is coming next? "passed around"... Ooooh, spooky.)... you can't write that awkwardly without trying to do so. I find these lyrics hilarious for their intentional flaws. | |
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Perfect Pervers Rhythm Player |
#6 by Perfect Perversion™ at Aug 11, 1992 at 3:44 PM EST |
| This song is obviously about pancakes-the food of the devil. This is proven by the line "Teeth are extruded and bones are ground And baked into cakes which are passed around" The cakes refered to there are the pancakes. What is being said is that pancakes are all that will be served in 'hell', they will be made of peoples teeth and bones and there will be NO syrup. NONE. ZERO. ZIP. And also that the dress code will be formal. | |
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albert Rhythm Player |
#7 by albert casualtie at Nov 13, 1996 at 4:22 AM EST |
| I definetly was just saying that maybe it was further proof of another connection between hell & pancakes - I did know that this movie came out waaaayyyy after the song was written. However; Hellboy was created in 1994 (as a comic book) This song was released in 1997. (I'm not saying the song & the movie have anything to do with each other ) | |
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taris Average |
#8 by taris leoncho at Mar 3, 1999 at 11:31 PM EST |
| Well, I think the lyrics are pretty damn straitforward. In any case, the I partially agree with ABC in that you are totally overanalyzing the grammar of the lyrics. Even if they are so "horribly" written, it could just be that the lyricist speaks/writes this way. Also, I wanted to add that I discovered this song while reading Dante's Inferno. Made it that much better. | |
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drw Average |
#9 by drw drw at Oct 19, 1999 at 12:11 PM EST |
| oh my god, that would be hell!! | |
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Anthony Wanna Be |
#10 by Anthony Amell at Nov 18, 2000 at 11:26 AM EST |
| Streetlight Manifesto ( ex Catch 22) played this when i saw them in london, it was absolutely amazing! | |
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Marcus19 Rhythm Player |
#11 by Marcus19 Doug at Jul 2, 2004 at 11:14 AM EST |
| ....WHAT? what the hell do passive verbs and adverbs have to do with this song? i think your linguistic analysis is inherently flawed in that there's no REASON for it whatsoever. ... ... i don't even know what to say. are you correcting the lyrics for the original writer? because that's a different story... but just saying that they 'deviate, intentionally, from a natural flow in the song,' and that adverbs exist where objects should is like saying that "i look funny" should be "i look at a horse," and that one 'deviates' from and should be the other. also, your apparent need to show off your linguistic vocab seems a bit unnecessary, wouldn't you say? | |
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Drennan Professional Badass |
#12 by Drennan Bragg at Aug 12, 2004 at 9:39 PM EST |
| In the movie 'HELLBOY' pancakes were 'HELLBOYS' favorite food. I wonder if theres a connection there? | |
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health risk Average |
#13 by health risk at May 20, 2005 at 10:13 AM EST |
| I hate pancakes. I don't wanna go to hell. | |
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Kubota35 Professional |
#14 by Kubota35 at Sep 18, 2006 at 4:09 PM EST |
| No, this song is much older than the movie. | |
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jo_silverhawk Average |
#15 by jo_silverhawk at Sep 18, 2007 at 7:36 PM EST |
| yeah that is what I meant | |
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