• Song:

    Black Mambo

  • Artist:

    Madrugada

  • Album:

    The Nightly Disease

Author/Artist:  Madrugada 
Title:          Black Mambo
Album:          The Nightly Disease
Transcribed by: DMS & RH

Standard tuning (EADGBE)

This is the cool bassriff that is played in the begining of the 
song. (And also throughout the song)

"Arranged" for guitar. I think. I've never played a bass, but it's
pretty cool to play this on a normal guitar...

e||---------------------------|    e||---------------------------|
B||---------------------------|    B||---------------------------|
G||---------------------------|    G||---------------------------|
D||-----------0---0-2---------| or D||---------------------------|
A||-------0h2---2---------0---|    A||-----------5---5-7---------|
E||--0------------------3-----|    E||--0----5h7---7-------3-5---|

I sometimes use powercords on the first and the two last notes.  
Just for the fun of it..

Guitar riff at 0:30, 0:45 & 3.03:

e||---------------------------|
B||---------------------------|
G||---------------------------|
D||---------------------------|
A||--2-2h3-2------------------|
E||-----------3--0------------|

Prechorus riff 1 and 2:

D||----0----|   D||-------|
A||-3-------|   A||----0--|
E||---------|   E||-3-----|


Rhytm figur for the outro:
    G       Em(Let ring)
e||---3--------0---------------------|
B||-----3------0---------------------|
G||------------0---------------------|
D||------------2---------------------| 
A||-2----------2---------------------|
E||---------0------------------------|




Intro:

Em     Em G A Em   x Many times


Verse:

Em       
When you're on your own
                                   G A
And you've got them twisting bones
Em                                      G
And a red hot poker burning in your ear
        A        Em
You think you've had it 

But you ain't nowhere near
                     G
You think you've had it
 A                   Em                       
But you're nowhere near


Prechorus:
                                          
 G                                        Riff 1
Ah black mambo gonna knock you down to the ground

 Em                                 Riff 2
Black mambo little chicken better run


Chorus:

Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you
Em                                       G A
Gonna lock you down with liquor and love
Em                                               G A
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run
Em
Don't let them catch you out here on the street
                         G A
Cause you've got no soul 
Em                                               G A
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run
Bm              G          A
  Don't let the children catch you
Bm              G          A
  Don't let the children catch you


Interlude:

Em     G A Em   x 4


Verse:

Gonna lock you down with liquor and love

I lock you down with liquor and love

Oh black mambo with a funeral horn

No no no black mambo

You better run, you better run, you better run...

Black mambo coming for you


Prechorus:

Ah black mambo comes knocking with a funeral horn

Black mambo little chicken better run, run, run


Chorus:

Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you

Em     G A Em x 5 (Distortion)

Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm              G          A
Don't let the children catch you

Outro:

G Em x Many times

Ends on Em
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