• Song:

    Mean Little Seed

  • Artist:

    Califone

  • Album:

    Quicksand/Cradlesnakes

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Open E tuning  (easiest to do open-D:  DAD#AD with capo on 2nd; tab relative to capo)
*As with most Califone songs, as you play this main riff/melody, you also do a light 
strumming of the open strings to affect that open tuning drone, which I won?t painstakingly 
tab out here.  Just play this riff and strum around until it sounds right.

Intro/Verse  (4x):
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---10----5///9\\----0h4------0h2--------------0----------------------------|
B------------------------------------0h2-------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------0--------------------------------|
?Texas looks like Galilee,
Cripple trees and mean little seed?

Chorus (4x):
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------3h5--3--------------------0-------------0---------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------5/6------3bp0----------3bp0------------------------------|

Verse riff (4x)
?Today hung clearly fake only for your eyes
Spit it out, James, take it all apart
Waiting for the yellow bleed mustard from a crow
Quiet quick violence

Chorus riff (4x)

Bridge:
E-----------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------------|
G#----------------------------------------------|
E----10--(b9)-10--(b9)-----///7-------4\p0-------|
B-----------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------|
Yeah, like shit on old money
E-----------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------------|
G#----------------------------------------------|
E----10--(b9)-10--(b9)-----///7-------4\p0-------|
B-----------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------|
    yeah,  can't wash it off

E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------------------|
G#------------------------------------------------------------|
E----10--(b9)-10--(b9)-----///7-------4\p0---4\p0-----------|
B-------------------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------0--------|(ring heavy)
Held like lice on a lion


Then this slight variation on the verse riff  (2x)
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E------10-----(b9)----5----7-----4\2p0---------------0------------------------|
B----------------------------------------0h2---------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------0----------------------------|

Chorus riff (4x)

Bridge riff (2x)
Well, stay quick and quiet now       mmm, my mean little seed
Held like lice on a lion

Chorus riff (4x)
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