• Song:

    Weird At My School

  • Artist:

    Pixies

  • Album:

    1988-1991 Comp B Sides

OK this is a great song, chords and stuff are a bit weird but not too hard.

First the chords -

Intro:

1,2,3,4..

C#m    pause
G#     twice as long as the C#m

C#m (strum the chord really quickly but reduce the number of strings you play till you 
just playing the bass C#, then go back up and get into this rhythm:

e|-------|---------------------------|
b|----5-5|-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5-|
g|----6-6|-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6-|
d|----6-6|-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6-|
a|-------|-4---------------4---------|
e|-------|---------4---------------4-|

Keep playing this rhythm for the verses.)

Verse:
C#mMy (x13321@4)father lives in Arabia

C#m (x13321@4)                    G (320003@1)     BAnd (x2444x@1)I live right here at my school

C#mI (x13321@4)took his plane to Columbia

C#m (x13321@4)              G (320003@1)     BSo (x2444x@1)I could sell at my school

CHORUS:
Em (022000@1)     GWeird (320003@1)at my school it's

Em (022000@1)     GWeird (320003@1)at my school it's

Em (022000@1)     GWeird (320003@1)at my school it's

F (133211@1)      AWeird (x02220@1)at my school

Pre-verse:
C#m (x13321@4)       G (320003@1)name="chord_x13321@4">C#m         G (320003@1)Verse:
My mother's glad that I am here
So she can visit my school
I can't believe she's so pretty
I'm a son of a bitch at my school

Chorus

Pre-Verse

Verse:
And my best friend, my cousin Eleanor
She lives far away from the doors of my school (wait longer before the G  B)
And oftentimes you know I fantasize
That I have sex with the nuns at my school

Chorus x 2

End on C#m

Now the lead parts -

Verses:

Come in on the 'my school' with:

e|--------s12--|
b|------8------|
g|----7--------|
d|-------------|
a|-------------|
e|-------------|

Chorus:

e|-3333-----------|           e|-3----8--------12--|
b|-----5-3-5-5----|           b|-4-s8----8-s12-----|
g|-------------3b-| x 3 then  g|-------------------|
d|----------------|           d|-------------------|
a|----------------|           a|-------------------|
e|----------------|           e|-------------------|

Pre-verse:

e|-------------------------------------------------------|
b|-------------------------------------------------------|
g|-------------------------------------------------------|
d|-10-101010-101010-101010-101010-101010-101010----------| x 2
a|----------------------------------------------10-10-10-|
e|-------------------------------------------------------|

then

e|--9---|
b|--9---|
g|--9---|
d|--11--|  upstroke and hold it
a|--11--|
e|--9---|

End with

e|-------|
b|-------|
g|--6p5~-|
d|-------|
a|-------|
e|-------|

There we go. Have fun.

Show more