• Song:

    Heroin

  • Artist:

    Velvet Underground

riff 1:
  D             G             D             G
 | -2-------2---2- | -3-------3----- | -2-----3-2---2- | -3-------3---0- | 
 | -3-----3---3--- | -0-----0---0--- | -3---------3--- | -0-----0---0--- | 
 | -2---2--------- | -0---0--------- | -2---2--------- | -0---0--------- | 
 | -0------------- | -0------------- | -0------------- | -0------------- | 
 | --------------- | -2------------- | --------------- | -2------------- | 
 | --------------- | -3------------- | --------------- | -3------------- | 
 
riff 2:
 | -2----7----9---7---- | 
 | -3----8----10--8---- |         listen to the song to get the timing for
 | -2----7----9---7---- |         this part - it isn't broken up into bars
 | -0------------------ |         here.
 | -------------------- | 
 | -------------------- | 
 
riff 1 2X
 
D5   G5       D5    G5     D5         G5       D5       G5
   I  don't know  just where I'm going
    D5        G5         D5           G5            D<---- end of riff 1, strum
But    I'm       gonna try for the kingdom if I can    this chord, and the
                G5               D5                      rest of the chords
Cos it makes me feel like I'm a man
             G5             D5
When I put a spike into my vein
              G5                       D5
And I tell ya things aren't quite the same          when you hit the word
         G5             D5                            know at the end of the
When I'm rushing on my run                        verse, the D chord marks the
      G5                     D5                    beginning of riff 1 again,
And I feel just like Jesus' son                 which contintues until the
      G5                       D5                 nullify in the next verse/
And I guess that I just don't know              this pattern continues thru
      G5                        D5      G5     D5       G5      the whole song/
And I guess that I just don't know
 
 
D5     G5        D5   G5         D5         G5     D5
I         have made a  big decision
D5     G5        D5    G5          D5
I'm      gonna try     to nullify my life
             G5               D5
Cos when the blood begins to flow
       G5                       D5
And it shoots up the dropper's neck
         G5             D5
When I'm closing in on death
 
riff2 2X
 

          G5               D5
You can't help me not you guys
                  G5                         D5
Oh, all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
        G5             D5
You can all go take a walk
      G5                       D5
And I guess that I just don't know
      G5                       D5      G5      D5      G5
And I guess that I just don't know
 
 
D5    G5      D5      G5        D5               G5        D5      G5
I       wish that    I was born a thousand years ago
D5    G5      D5      G5                    D5
I       wish that    I'd sailed the darkened seas
     G5                 D5
On a great big clipper ship
           G5                 D5
Going from this land here to that
         G5                 D5
Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap
 
riff2 2X
 

     G5            D5
Away from the big city
        G5              D5
Where a man can not be free
           G5             D5
Of all the evils of this town
          G5               D5
And of himself and those around
          G5                       D5
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
          G5                       D5      G5     D5      G5
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
 
 
D5   G5   D5   G5            D5           G5       D5      G5
Her_____oin,   it'll be the death of me
D5   G5   D5   G5       D5               G5
Her_____oin,   it's my wife, and it's my life
          G5              D5
Because a mainline in my vein
           G5            D5
Leads to a center in my head
             G5             D5
And then I'm better off as dead
 
riff2 4X
 

             G5               D5
Cos when the smack begins to flow
      G5                    D5
Oh, I really don't care anymore
              G5                D5
'Bout all the jim-jims in this town
                G5                    D5
And all the politicians making crazy sounds
              G5                      D5
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
                 G5                  D5
And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam
 
riff 2  4x
             G5               D5
Cos when the smack begins to flow
      G5                    D5
And I really don't care anymore
 
riff 2  2x
              G5           D5
When that heroin is in my blood
        G5              D5
And the blood is in my head
             G5                       D5
Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead
               G5                 D5
And thank your God that I'm not aware
          G5                     D5
And thank God that I just don't care
      G5                       D5
And I guess that I just don't know
      G5                       D5      G5       D5        G5
And I guess that I just don't know
 
riff1 2X
 

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