• Song:

    Expressway To Your Skull

  • Artist:

    Sonic Youth

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

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EXPRESSWAY TO YR SKULL – Sonic Youth
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AKA Madonna, Sean and Me or The Crucifixion of Sean Penn
From the album Evol
Tabbed by: Jay Rangdale
Email: jayrangdale@hotmail.co.uk

Tuning: Standard

I know SY use any combination of bizarre tunings but this is how I play it in 
standard and it still sounds suitably discordant. Let the open strings ring for 
extra disturbing spacey feel.
One of my favourite Sonic Youth songs.Forgive me if I murder it. Its my first 
attempt at tabbing so cut me a bit of slack. 

Intro:

e|-0--00-00-00-0000-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-0--00-00-00-0000-------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9--99-99-99-9999—x4----------------------------------------------------|
D|-9--99-99-99-9999-------------------------------------------------------|
A|-7--77-77-77-7777-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0--00-00-00-0000-------------------------------------------------------|


e|-0--0----0--00------0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--00---------------|
B|-0--0----0--00------0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--00---------------|
G|-2--1----2—-11---x2-8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--1----2--11---------------|
D|-2--2----2--22------8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--2----2--22---------------|
A|-2--2----2--22------6--66-66-66-66-66-66-66-2--2----2--22---------------|
E|-0--0-0--0--00-0----0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0-0--0--00-0-------------|
  Hold previous chord but just play open E string where shown


e|-0--0----0--0----0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0----0--0-------------------------|
B|-0--0----0--0----0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0----0--0-------------------------|
G|-2--1----2--1----2--2-222-6--6-666-2--1----2--1-------------------------|
D|-2--2----2--2----2--2-222-6--6-666-2--2----2--2-------------------------|
A|-2--2----2--2----0--0-000-4—-4-444-2--2----2--2-------------------------|
E|-0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0-0--0--0-0-----------------------|
   We’re gonna killllllllllllll   The California girls


e|-0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--0-----------------------------------|
B|-0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--0-----------------------------------|
G|-8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--1----2--1-----------------------------------|
D|-8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--2----2--2-----------------------------------|
A|-6--66-66-66-66-66-66-66-2--2----2--2-----------------------------------|
E|-0—-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0-0--0--0-0---------------------------------|
   We’re gonna fire the    Milkmaid maidenhead
   Exploding load in the

e|-0--0----0--0----0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0----0--0-------------------------|
B|-0--0----0--0----0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0----0--0-------------------------|
G|-2--1----2--1----2--2-222-6--6-666-2--1----2--1-------------------------|
D|-2--2----2--2----2--2-222-6--6-666-2--2----2--2-------------------------|
A|-2--2----2--2----0--0-000-4—-4-444-2--2----2--2-------------------------|
E|-0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-000-0--0-000-0--0-0--0--0-0-----------------------|
   We’re gonna find the meaningggg  Of feeling good and


e|-0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--0-----------------------------------|
B|-0--00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0----0--0-----------------------------------|
G|-8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--1----2--1-----------------------------------|
D|-8--88-88-88-88-88-88-88-2--2----2--2-----------------------------------|
A|-6--66-66-66-66-66-66-66-2--2----2--2-----------------------------------|
E|-0—-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-0--0-0--0--0-0---------------------------------|
   We’re gonna stay there just as long as we think we should 


e|-0---0---0—--0---0---0--0-0-0----------0-00--0----0--0------------------|
B|-0---0---0—--0---0---0--0-0-0----------0-00--0----0--0------------------|
G|-4-/-6-\-4—--4-/-6-\-4--2-2-9-\\\\\\\\\2-22--1----2--1-x3-Long pause
D|-4-/-6-\-4—--4-/-6-\-4--2-2-9-\\\\\\\\\2-22--2----2--2---before To your
A|-2-/-4-\-2—--2-/-4-\-2--2-2-9-\\\\\\\\\2-22--2----2--2---skull 3rd time
E|-0---0---0—--0---0---0--0-0-0----------0-00--0-0--0--0-0-around
  Mystery      Three-way  Expresswayyyyyy To your skull
  Train        plane 

And the last bit? Yr guess is as good as mine, although it is tied to Kim’s 
descending bass line……Good luck with that!

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