• Song:

    Basket Case

  • Artist:

    Sara Bareilles

  • Album:

    Kaleidoscope Heart

"Basket Case"- Sara Bareilles
Tabbed by Robin Young
(You can hear me play it at youtube.com/watch?v=pG44NEz9RTc)

Tuning: DADGAd

CHORDS:
A(add11): 770600
Gadd9:  550400
G-(add9): 550300
D5:       000200
B-7:      990700
E7sus4:   220200

INTRO: A(add11) - Gadd9 - D5 (2x)

VERSE 1:
  A(add11)      Gadd9 (135211@3)        D5I (xx023x@1)don't want to talk about it to you
           A(add11)               Gadd9 (135211@3)name="chord_xx023x@1">D5
I'm not an open book that you can rifle through
    A(add11)                    B-7       Gadd9 (135211@3)E7sus4The (020200@1)cold hard truth that you'll see right to
         D5 (xx023x@1)   A(add11)     Gadd9I'm (135211@3)just basket case without you

VERSE 2:
           A(add11)       Gadd9 (135211@3)name="chord_xx023x@1">D5
He's not a magic man or a perfect fit
         A(add11)              Gadd9 (135211@3) D5He (xx023x@1)had a steady hand, and I got used to it
      A(add11)                B-7       Gadd9 (135211@3)name="chord_020200@1">E7sus4
And a glass cage heart, and invited me in
                   D5 (xx023x@1)   A(add11)      Gadd9And (135211@3)now I'm just a basket case without him

CHORUS:
D5 (xx023x@1)                      Gadd9 (135211@3)  You're begging for the truth
G-(add9)           D5 (xx023x@1)  So I'm saying it to you
                         Gadd9 (135211@3)  I've been saving your place
        G-(add9) (hold)
   What good does it do?
                  D5 (xx023x@1)        A(add11) Gadd9 (135211@3)  Now I'm just a basket case
                  D5 (xx023x@1)        A(add11) Gadd9 (135211@3)  Now I'm just a basket case

VERSE 3:
  A(add11)                  Gadd9 (135211@3)   D5I (xx023x@1)don't say much, and it'll stay that way
         A(add11)                           Gadd9 (135211@3)     D5You (xx023x@1)got a steel train touch, and I'm just a track you lay
        A(add11)        B-7          Gadd9 (135211@3)name="chord_020200@1">E7sus4
So I'll stay right here underneath you
           D5 (xx023x@1)     A(add11)         Gadd9I'm (135211@3)just a basket case; it's what we do

(CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
               D5Won't (xx023x@1)somebody come on in and tug at my seams?
              A(add11)
Oh, send your armies in of robbers and thieves
             B-7       Gadd9 (135211@3) D5 (xx023x@1)         A(add11)
To steal the state I'm in, I don't want it anymore

(CHORUS)

D5 (xx023x@1)        A(add11) Gadd9Now (135211@3)I'm just a basket case
               D5 (xx023x@1)        A(add11) Gadd9Now (135211@3)I'm just a basket case

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