• Song:

    Tribute

  • Artist:

    Tenacious D

  • Album:

    1998-05-03: Key Club, L...

Fig 1
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E | ----------------------------------------------- | 

A long time ago, me and my brother Kyle here, we were hitchhiking
Down a long and lonesome road, all of a sudden there shined a 
Shiny demon in the middle of the road. And he said

Play the best song in the world or I?ll eat your soul
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E | ------------------------------------------------------------- | 
 PM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

            Well me and Kyle       we looked at eachother
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E | ----------------------------------------------- | 

           And we each said         O.K.
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A | -0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0- | 
E | ----------------------------------------------- | 

       A5                          G5
And we played the first thing that came to our heads
   F5                           A5               G5
It just so happened to be  the best song in the world
           F5                         A5         G5        F5
It was the best song in the world ooohhhhyyaaaahhhhiiiiiioooo

And it saved our butts                  because the demon woulda killed us oh
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D | ---------------7-----7-6-----6-5-----5-4-----4-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3- | 
A | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | 
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                   But he was forced to 
                          Set us free by the
                                 Honor code that
                                        Demons                  have to 
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E | -1-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

   Live by       cause its satan?s surprise and its magic      and its a
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E | -1------------------------------------------------------------ | 

  Mystical disguise        butthegerero       the devel?s song
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   And its tragic       you are the mystical ide - ver - gin   and you?re
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   Rocking               down sweep  
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E | ------------------------------- | 

Fig 1
Well needless to say, the beast was stunned
Whip crack with your swampy tail, and the beast was done
He asks us (snort) be you angels
And we said nay, we are but men.     Rock

D5         F5         C5         G5          
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
A5 (1 strum )                                 A5 
Ohhwhoaowhoaoho   ohhwhoaowhoaoho  ohowhoahoaho   this is not
    G5                    F5      A5                G5  F5  A5
The greatest song in the world  no this is just a tribute
                      G5                    F5       A5 
Couldn?t remember the greatest song in the world no    no this is a 
G5      F5     A1      G1                 F#1   F#5   F#3  F5   
Tribute   ho            to the greatest song in the world   all-
A1          G1                 F#1   F#5   F#3  F5 
right          to the Greatest song in the world   all-
A1                 G1                             F#1          F#5    F#3        
right it is just a pissed mother **** its of the greatest song in the world 

           ow                  ow                   ow

Wer em ur pow chewga fukay fu fly chuga flabbablabba  a flabbablabba

Ow        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

A duuiuu ooioom fam chuga flaba bababa flagabubba abugga awoomamumma woose


  A1       G1        F#1   F#5  F#3   F1
Sefem                      
A1                          G1              F#1    F#5      F#3     F1
  And the peculiar thing is this my friends,         the song we played
        A1                 G1                            F#1  
On that fateful night        didn?t actually sound anything 
F#5       F#3    F1             A1           G1        F#1  F#5 
like this song.  This is just a tribute, you got to believe me,
F#3   F1            A1            G1         F#1    F1 
and I wish you were there, just a matter of opinion  aaahhh ****  
A1        G1          F#1                   F1
good God, God loving,  Your so surprised to find you can?t stop him ,  
A1       G1            F#1               F1
upfar    arrrullyupfar Rich mother****er give upa aahhh
E5      F5      E5     F5     E5     F5              A5


Abbreviated chords:
A1 - (X02400) (Asus2)
G1 - (3X2400) (Asus2/G)
F#1 - (2X0230) (Dsus2/F#)
F#2 - (2X0210) (Dm7sus2/F#) 
F#3 - (2X0200) 
F1 - (X03210)  (FM7)
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