Elephant [Bonus Tracks] Tabs:
- Seven Nation Army
- Black Math
- There's No Home For You Here
- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
- In The Cold, Cold Night
- I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart
- You've Got Her In Your Pocket
- Ball And Biscuit
- The Hardest Button To Button
- Little Acorns
- Hypnotize
- The Air Near My Fingers
- Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
- Well It's True That We Love One Another
- Who's To Say
- Good To Me
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White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
ok this is really easy.
same riff over and over again and though jack white does some fancy shit
occasionally in the riff here is the usual typical riff.
sounds good and is easy to learn.
just listen to the song and play the riff in rythm with jack.
E|-----------------------------||
B|-----------------------------||
G|-----------------------------||
D|-----------------------------||
A|-2-5-5-5-2-5-5-5-2-5-5-2-----||play this riff twice but ignore the first
E|-0-3-3-3-0-3-3-3-0-3-3-0-----||note the second time.
then onto...
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B|------------------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------------------||
D|------------------------------------------------------||
A|-2-7-7-7-2-7-7-7-2-7-7-2--5-5-5-2-5-5-5-2-5-5-2-------||
E|-0-5-5-5-0-5-5-5-0-5-5-0--3-3-3-0-3-3-3-0-3-3-0-------||
and then...
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B|------------------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------------------||
D|------------------------------------------------------||
A|-2-9-9-9-2-9-9-9-2-9-9-2--5-5-5-2-5-5-5-2-5-5-2-------||
E|-0-7-7-7-0-7-7-7-0-7-7-0--3-3-3-0-3-3-3-0-3-3-0-------||
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Nathan Average |
#1 by Nathan Delvecchio at Feb 2, 1978 at 7:11 AM EST |
| this song is so sarcastic, i love it | |
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Wacko Average |
#2 by Wacko Jacko at Apr 2, 1978 at 8:46 AM EST |
| I agree that it's the placebo affect, and I agree that it rocks. It's so cool how "Acetaminophen" sounds like "I-see-the-minophen"... and it's then followed by "You see the medicine". Brilliant. I thought it was "I see the benefit" when I first heard it. But "Acetaminophen" is so much better. | |
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Mike Average |
#3 by Mike Fraguglia at Jul 10, 1978 at 10:57 PM EST |
| I agree with lilybart. And the rest of you, this is songmeanings, not song-this-song-has-a-good-guitar-solo. | |
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taris Average |
#4 by taris leoncho at Nov 7, 1979 at 3:31 PM EST |
| Most underrated of all WS songs-verges on brilliance. | |
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The Random Rock Average |
#5 by The Random Rocker at Apr 19, 1981 at 11:21 AM EST |
| I love this song...yeah. | |
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Nikola Rhythm Player |
#6 by Nikola Supukovic at Dec 18, 1981 at 12:32 AM EST |
| drugs. lmao this song is perfect! | |
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nick Wanna Be |
#7 by nick at Jun 15, 1982 at 9:08 AM EST |
| its opening rift is soo sweet and the song is great | |
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Nathan Average |
#8 by Nathan Delvecchio at Jul 15, 1983 at 12:00 AM EST |
| i think this song is about the 'bad' kind of drugs, and how people have a ridiculous aversion to them yet readily take their acetaminophen [the most common analgesic in america]. 'Is the problem you're allergic / To a well familiar name? / Do you have a problem with this one / If the results are the same?' people are alright with something called acetaminophen, but not something like cocaine [a well familiar name]. | |
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The Random Rock Average |
#9 by The Random Rocker at Oct 22, 1984 at 3:53 AM EST |
| A friend of mine used to work in arehad center for teenagers. They knew EXCACTLY what drugs worked together, they were even choosing the shapes of the tablets and portion of this and that drug... they had it all mapped out. I don't know... it just reminds me of that, you can't fool everyone with placebos. | |
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More Cowbell Lead Player |
#10 by More Cowbell at Sep 7, 1985 at 5:43 PM EST |
| I agree with Lilybart...totally. | |
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Zach Rhythm Player |
#11 by Zach at May 14, 1991 at 1:36 AM EST |
| This was a jingle written to sell Alieve. Jack, the seller, is talking to girl, who is the consumer, about the benefits of acetaminophen. There is a disclaimer about a possible allergic reaction to actetaminphen in the song (this is very rare and was not found over the course of studies on several random groupings). The FDA needs to require that possible side effects of the medication, including headache, dry mouth, and sexual dysfunction, be included at the end of the song. | |
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Avinash Average |
#12 by Avinash Dutta at Feb 1, 1993 at 3:12 PM EST |
| i think jack is poking fun at this girl. every adolescent at some point has had this attitude, "no one can possibly understand me. no one has ever felt the way i do. no one or nothing can help me now." this girl is just going through that stage. she refuses to take her "medicine" because she's convinced herself that she's without hope but jack mocks that she's merely "allergic to a well familiar name." it's not that she can't be helped, its that she doesn't want to be helped because that will make her just like all of the other pill poppers out there. even though the subject of this song is the girl, jack also mocks modern medicine. there are drugs for everything and merely "the name upon the bottle" will determine what it can do for you. i agree with lillybart--the line "give me sugar pill and watch me just rattle" is definitely in reference to the placebo effect. so much sarcasm. gotta love it. | |
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Niks Average |
#13 by Niks at Aug 15, 1996 at 12:15 PM EST |
| 1st name- YES! that bit when you think he's going to say something but doesn't is total genius. | |
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Turd Fergeson Lead Player |
#14 by Turd Fergeson Fergeson at Apr 7, 1998 at 3:26 PM EST |
| This song to me is pretty obviously about the placebo effect. Sometimes the ability to get better, to be well, is in your mind, but you think you need something to help the process. It's all in this girl to be well, and while she's refusing to take her 'medicine' and being miserable, the answer's right there. | |
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Dr. Average |
#15 by Dr. Funkinstein at Oct 19, 2004 at 4:21 PM EST |
| On the part where it sounds like he is going to say another line but but doesn't, it used to be "I don't have the patience to watch you battle every miniscule disease" but Jack thought it was too harsh, so he took it out. He also said that the song is about how with girls, there is such a big fuss over everything and how they are so particular about things. Like a woman would say something like "Oh I won't take Tylenol, it doesn't work for me," but a guy would just take and swallow whatever's handed to him. (This is all from whitestripes.net just so you don't think i'm just pulling this out my ass.) | |
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jimmy Wanna Be |
#16 by jimmy henry at Oct 22, 2004 at 5:26 PM EST |
| I heard, this may not be true, that he wrote it because he finds girls are always popping pills when the smallest thing is wrong with them. Meg really hates this song. | |
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Bobby Wanna Be |
#17 by Bobby Warneke at Sep 15, 2005 at 6:11 AM EST |
| acetametaphin is the proper name for tylenol or advil. and the tak ethe bark of the tree is a reference to the beginning of aspirin which was derrived from tree bark. when people got headaches in the olden times, they ate tree bark from a certain tree that ive forgotten. just some fun facts | |
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Marks Average |
#18 by Marks at May 22, 2006 at 3:01 PM EST |
| I love the behind the nut strums on this song, they remind me of the first record. It looks like everyone already coverd this song, but two quick things...Caleby, I always thought he said "i'll see the benfit" too...and "Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street" is probabaly the coolest line ever | |
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