Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
First slowly strum out a G7#9 with this shape: EADGBE
This may look like an impossibility, like a cruel, unusual and
unplayable chord, but it can be done. You must use the power
of the force. First you use your ring (3rd) finger to cover
BOTH the 4th and 5th strings on the 5th fret (straight down on
the fingertip, not barred), and next you use the baby finger to
barr both the 1st and 2nd strings on the 6th fret. Of course your
index finger is on the 6th string, 3rd fret, and your middle
finger is on the 3rd string, 4th fret. Once you've let it ring
for a few seconds you quickly play Eb/Ab and F/G* (shapes shown
below) as the last two beats of a lead-in bar, and you're into
the intro, which is a guitar solo over:
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Vs. I
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Agents of the law
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Luckless pedestrians
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I know you're out there
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With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
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Saying all is forgiven
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Mad Dog surrender
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How can I answer?
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A man of my mind can do anything.
Chorus
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I'm a book keeper's son
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I don't want to shoot no one
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Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
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Alive
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Got a case of dynamite
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I could hold out here all night
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Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
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alive
Vs. II ( Chords same as for Vs. 1)
Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my insides,
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am
* CHORUS *
Bridge
There is some keyboard and guitar work here which
mostly is played over a 'C' bass note, and although it would
be messy to try to write it out note for note, I think you
Can get away with playing these chords
(formations shown below).
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* CHORUS *
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. . . don't take me alive
Chord formations: ( 1 to 9 represent fret numbers, but to avoid
confusion, a=10th fret, b=11th fret etc. )
XbdcbX XaaaaX 8Xa888 8Xaa88 3X321X 3X343X
X6876X X8a98X XacbaX 8XaabX 8XaaaX XccccX
"Always keep a bottle of whiskey in one pocket in case of
snake bite... Always keep a snake in the other pocket." -W.C. Fields