INTRO:
First slowly strum out a G7#9 with this shape: EADGBE
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This may look like an impossibility, like a cruel, unusual and
unplayable chord, but it can be done. You must use the power
of the force. First you use your ring (3rd) finger to cover
BOTH the 4th and 5th strings on the 5th fret (straight down on
the fingertip, not barred), and next you use the baby finger to
barr both the 1st and 2nd strings on the 6th fret. Of course your
index finger is on the 6th string, 3rd fret, and your middle
finger is on the 3rd string, 4th fret. Once you've let it ring
for a few seconds you quickly play Eb/Ab and F/G* (shapes shown
below) as the last two beats of a lead-in bar, and you're into
the intro, which is a guitar solo over:
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C5 C5 C5 F5 ** G5
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F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5 C5 C5 Eb5 F5 *
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C5 C5 C5 F5 ** G5
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F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5 C5 C5 C5 G5
Vs. I
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C5 C5 C5
Agents of the law
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C5 G5 G5
Luckless pedestrians
G5 F5
I know you're out there
Bb5 C5 D5
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
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Eb5 F5 C5 C5
Saying all is forgiven
C5 G5 G5
Mad Dog surrender
G5 F5
How can I answer?
Bb5 C5 D5
A man of my mind can do anything.
Chorus: | | | |
Eb5 F5 * C5
I'm a book keeper's son
C5 F5 ** G5
I don't want to shoot no one
F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
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C5 C5 Eb5 F5 *
Alive
C5 C5
Got a case of dynamite
F5 ** G5
I could hold out here all night
F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
C5 C5 C5 C5
alive
Vs. II ( Chords same as for Vs. 1)
Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my insides,
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am
* CHORUS *
BRIDGE: There is some keyboard and guitar work here which
mostly is played over a 'C' bass note, and although it would
be messy to try to write it out note for note, I think you
can get away with playing these chords: (formations shown below).
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C5 F5 F5 C5 C5 F5 F5 G5 F*
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C5 F5 F5 G5 F5 * C5 D5 Eb5
Eb5 F5 *
* CHORUS *
F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5 F5 G5 Ab5 Bb5 C5 (hold)
. . . don't take me alive
* End *
Chord formations: ( 1 to 9 represent fret numbers, but to avoid
confusion, a=10th fret, b=11th fret etc. )
