• Song:

    What Ever Happened

  • Artist:

    The Strokes

Tabbed By; Daniel James Frampton (it's all me)

INTRO: palm mute the open b string and play 16th notes (tremelo picking)

VERSE:
 B5
I want to be forgotten, 
 E5
and I don't want to be reminded. 
  C#5
You say "please don't make this harder." 
  E5
No, I won't yet. 

Repeat chords... 

I wanna be beside her. 
She wanna be admired. 
You say "please don't make this harder." 
No, I won't yet. 

Break: Abm F#  (The Lead is tabbed very well by someone else on this page)
       C#5 B5        

 Ab5   F#5       C#5         B5
Oh dear, is it really all true?
 Ab5   F#5                      C#5         B5  
Did they offend us and they want it to sound new? 
    Ab5   F#5        C#5         B5
Top ten ideas for countdown shows... 
 Ab5             F#5            C#5         B5
Whose culture is this and does anybody know? 
 Ab5         F#5         C#5         B5
I wait and tell myself "life ain't chess," 
Ab5              F#5      F#5         B5 - B5 - B5 - Ab5 - Ab5 - Ab5  
But no one comes in and yes, you're alone... 
 B5 - B5 - B5 - Ab5 - Ab5 - Ab5  C#5       B5
You don't miss me, I know.  
 
 Ab5      F#5      C#5        B5
Oh Tennessee, what did you write? 
 Ab5      F#5      C#5        B5
I come together in the middle of the night.
 Ab5       F#5              C#5        B5 
Oh that's an ending that I can't write, 'cause 
 Ab5      F#5    C#m________       B5
I've got you to le_______t me down. 
  
Intro again...

Verse:
I want to be forgotten, 
and I don't want to be reminded. 
You say "please don't make this harder." 
No, I won't yet. 
 
I want to be beside her. 
She wanna be admired. 
You say "please don't make this harder." 
No, I won't yet... 

Sounds good to me
-Dan
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