Beck

Beck - One Foot In The Grave Album guitar tab

Artist : BECK

Album : ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

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TRANSCRIPTION BY MAXXDADDY

1. He's A Mighty Good Leader

2. Sleeping Bag

3. I Get Lonesome

4. Burnt Orange Peel

5. Cyanide Breath Mint

6. See Water

7. Ziplock Bag

8. Hollow Log

9. Forcefield

10. Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods

11. Asshole

12. I've Seen The Land Beyond

13. Outcome

14. Girl Dreams

15. Painted Eyelids

16. Atmospheric Conditions

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1. HE'S A MIGHTY GOOD LEADER

open C# tuning

Intro follows this basic pattern:

C# ||-----0-------------||

G# ||----------0--------||

F ||---------------0---||

C# ||-----0------0------||

G# ||-------------------||

C# ||-0------0----------||

C# ------0--2/4---4----------4--2--0--------0--------

G# -0--2-------------0----------------0h2-----0------

F -------------0------0-----------------------------

C# ------0--2/4--------------4--2--0------0--------0-

G# -0--2------------------------------0h2------------

C# -----------------------0---------------------0----

------0--2/4---4---------4--5---4------------------

-0--2-------------0---------------------0------0---

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------0--2/4-------0-----4--5---4---------4------4-

-0--2----------------------------------------------

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-5-----4--------4-------4--2--0---------0---------

---------------------0--------0--0h2--------2-----

----0-----0----------------------0h1-----------1--

-5-----4------4----4----4--2--0------0------------

---------------------------------0h2------2-------

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------------2--------------------0-

-2-0------0---0--------2p0----0----

---0--0h1-------1----1-----1--0----

---0--0h2------------2-----------0-

-2----------------0----------------

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"solo"

-7--7--7--7------7---------

-------------7(9)--(9)7--5-

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outro:

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He's a mighty good leader,

He's a mighty good leader

He's a mighty good leader, all the way

All the way, he's a mighty good leader

He's a mighty good leader, all the way

He took my mother,

He took my mother,

He took my mother, all the way

All the way, way up to heaven

He took my mother, all the way

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2. SLEEPING BAG

guitar tuned down 1/2 step

A C# D A G# D A

guitar 2 follows the chords lazily on slide:

D#--------------------------------------------

A#----5---------9-----------10-----------5----

G ------5---------9------------10----------5-- etc.

D#--/5----5--/9-----9---/10-------10--/5------

A#--------------------------------------------

D#--------------------------------------------

A C#

open up the door

D A

lay the orange juice on the floor

G# D A

we're having a picnic on the ugly part of town

the sleeping bags on fire

and its getting down to the wire

so grab a sofa spot and settle down awhile

cause its getting hard to think

and my clothes are starting to shrink

and the moon is sagging down like a metal ball

and the world is a holiday

smoking in an old ashtray

they just blow it out their nose and say ok

so lets try to make this last

the past is still the past

and tomorrow is just another crazy scam

(repeat first verse)

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3. I GET LONESOME

Intro:

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Verse:

2x

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Chorus:

4x

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Lyrics:

Well there aint nobody left to impress

and everyone's kissing their own hands

its 666 on the kichen floor

aint no fire in the pan

I get lonesome (4x)

(repeat intro)

so glad to be a slab

stiff as a stick on a board

i get thoughts and dirty socks

piled in the corner

i get lonesome (4x)

D7 G D7 G

Getting fat on your own fears

bring that beer over here

i stomp on the floor

just to make a sound

i get lonesome (4x)

D7 G (6x)

ooooooh

D

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4. Burnt Orange Peel

B

I'm on the run with things to be (we're on the road/we're on the run)

I've got a garden hose and a color tv

A# F# B

I've got time on my hands

A# F# B

I've got time on my hands

E G# B

Nobody cares what I do

I'm on the run with things to do (we're on the road/long ago)

I've got a burnt orange peel and a potato stew

I've got work to get done

I've got work to get done

Nobody knows where to run

(up 1/2 step)

I've got a quart of milk and some sound advice

I've got

But they smell so nice

Don't give me the flu

Nobody knows I'm with you

(up 1/2 step)

Back and forth I dodge a fly

Like a feather in the sky

Write me out a check

Give me all your cash

Nobody knows, so let's just go home

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5. CYANIDE BREATH MINT

Tune guitar down one full step

A F D G

Definitely, this is the wrong place to be

F C

there's blood on the futon,

E A

there's a kid drinkin' fire.

F

Goin' down to the sea,

D G

they got people to meet,

F C

shakin' hands with themselves,

E F Gb

lookin' out for themselves.

C F G

When they ask you for credit,

F C

give them a branch.

C F G

When they want you to get it,

F C

chew on the grass.

E F

I know, I know

D G

'cause they told me to tell you

F C

there's nothing to tell you,

E A

there's nothing to sell you.

In the afternoon, riding the scapegoat,

burning equipment, decomposing.

Cool off your jets,

take off your sweats,

I got a funny feeling

they got plastic in the afterlife.

When they want you to cry,

leap into the sky.

When they suck your mind,

like a pigeon you fly.

I know, I know,

it's the positive people

running from their time

looking for some feeling.

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6. SEE WATER

tune guitar down 1/2 step

intro:

4x

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verse:

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---2h3-2--------

---2---2---2--4-

-2-------3-3--6-

-0-------0-0--0-

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chorus:

A D

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-6--7--

-7--7--

-0--0--

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Close your eyes and see water

sliding up the back of your head

folding into your clothing

covering everything you said

A D

Climb up into

A D

Who's going to miss you

Dry up on the shoreline

drinking everything you see

offering things to the ladies

bowing down in the mossen trees

A D

Climb up into

A D

Nobody's going to miss you

play open low E string at end

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7. ZIPLOCK BAG

open Eb tuning

guitar 2 plays above nut during intro

guitar 1

3x

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guitar2

3x

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chorus

-----17---------10---------9---9--9-

--------17---------10---/9---9---9--

-/17--------/10---------------------

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Open up

bare me my love

ain't no cat

laying flat on the road

It's so loud

seems I've been here

ziplock bag

oh my god

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8. HOLLOW LOG

tune down 1 1/2 steps

INTRO:

4x

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VERSE:

2x

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||-0---0---2-------0-----||-2---0---2--------0--2-------2---0---

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||-----------------------||-3-3---3---3--3--3--3--3--3-3--3---3-

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2x

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-2h3---3----3/5--3--0------------------------------0---------

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Lyrics:

go where you want to

do the things you feel

walk around with a broken leg

and a hundred dollar bill

get yourself a pistol

get yourself a dog

stay up all night gettin' drunk

sleepin' on a hollow log

walk till your restless

sleep till your tired

wake up without thinking

your the one that I desire

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9. FORCEFIELD

tune down 1/2 step

guitar 1

4x

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guitar 2

4x

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chorus

2x

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2x

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stand outside with a suitcase

(there's a forcefield round my neck)

walk around all the while

(and it stands just where I sat)

look at the people driving backwards

(and the stance I took on that)

no particular style

(leaves that forcefield round my back)

don't let it get near you

don't let it get too close

don't let it turn you into

(and the stance I took on that)

the things you hate the most

(leaves a forcefield round my neck)

roll out your silver-dollar coffins

pull out your buckskin gloves

tell them anything you want to

the sound comes from above

chorus

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10. FOURTEEN RIVERS FOURTEEN FLOODS

Beck plays variations on this throughout, but

this touches on each significant riff involved

open C# w/slide

C# ||--0--/4--5--7~------------/7p0--4~----------

G# ||--------------------0-----/7----------------

F ||-----------------x--0------------------x--0-

C# ||-----------------x--0------------------x--0-

G# ||-----------------x---------------------x--0-

C# ||-----------------------0--------------0-----

--/7--7-5~~----7p0------||

--/7-----------7---3-5~-||

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-0--3/4p0--5/7~~--0-5/7p0-4~~--x--0-3/43p0-/5-5-5-5-5-

-0--3/4p0----------------------x-----------------------

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-/7--3/4p0----0-----x---0-

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------/12-12~~----12--0--11-11~~--

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Fourteen rivers

fourteen floods

send your body to the heavens above.

Don't get drunk

don't get dry

just bring your money next Saturday night.

Forty miles on a cattle trail

with a happy mule

and nothing on my mind

all my life I've been talking fast

taking all the things

that I should have let pass.

Throw my hat on a coffee mill

put another brick

in the fire place.

Well I don't know about you or me

but some got loose

back on down.

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11. ASSHOLE

tune guitar down 1 1/2 steps

(C E A)4x

C E A

Your brains went black when she took back her love

C E A

and put it out into the sun

C E A

The birds did fly when the heavens all went dry

C E A

And the cigarettes are smokin by themselves

CHORUS

F

She'll do anything

E

She'll do anything

A C

She'll do anything to make you feel like an asshole

Call her name, she looks the same as you

question mark stretched across the skin

She dangles carrots, makes you feel embarrassed

to be the fool you know you are

(Chorus)

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13. I`VE SEEN THE LAND BEYOND

tune down 1/2 step

F

From these shores where we belong

C F

I have seen the land beyond

Where the lord is strange and strong

C F

I have seen the land beyond

Bb F

There's no telling who'll be dead

C F

When the pale horse is turning red

Bb F

And their tongues will burn in vain

C F

And everything will feel the same

There's no patience there's no peace

I have seen the land beyond

Where the gravestones never cease

I have seen the land beyond

Through the troubles of the years

A heavenly apparition appears

And we're haunted by our own minds

And the spirit calls in the skies

From these shores where we belong

I have seen the land beyond

I'll be there and I'll be gone

I have seen the land beyond

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13. OUTCOME

Intro + verse:

4x

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2x

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||-9--9---9/109----------------------9--9-9-8-8----9---9-9-9/11---||

||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----------------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-||

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Seventeen years in the city

static clinging to the ceiling

never did I think it would come to this

how come it's different than I expected

never did I think it would come to this

how come it's different than I expected

Riot cops cheerleaders

eyebrows painted on their heads

mouthful of rotting cavities

drinking coca cola in the street

(chorus)

Shot in the leg

shot in the leg

my name is a bone

nobody home

my hand is a wire

the sky is on fire

the drums aren't beating

pistols in jeans

laugh at the dead

laugh at the dead

love if you're dead

dead as a fly

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14. GIRLS DREAMS

tune guitar down 1 1/2 steps

A C

You're just the girl of my dreams

G F# C D G

But it seems my dreams never come true

(repeat)

A C G

I first met you down on Lover's Lane

F# C D G

The birds were insane flapping all about

A C G F#

Softly you would sing swinging in your swing

C D G

It wasn't night it wasn't day

(repeat chorus 2x)

(instrumental verse 2x)

(repeat chorus 1x)

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15. PAINTED EYELIDS

guitar tuned down 1/2 step

A E

I wake up and look upon your painted eyelids

F# E7

The world is your oyster and the trash bags are your kids

A E

The ceiling is invisible there's a bird sinkin thru the sky

F# E7

And every hour that passes is teachin me how to cry

D7 A

Cuz it's lonely here in the ugly part of town

B7 E7

The buildings are all vacant and the telephones are down

There's a police siren singing like a tiger with no skin

The sewer drain is glowing and I don't know what state I'm in

And the river is on fire there's chemicals and debris

And all the roads are blocked off they're just too hard to see

So cancel my appointments and set up a whole new show

Cuz I'm in need of a good hot meal and a life to call my own

(Harmonica solo over A-E-F#-E7)

So get me a plate of money get me a blanket and a chair

The limitations are limitless they're floating thru the air

Cuz it's real and it's true the things I see in you

And there's nothin I wouldn't talk about with the clearest dream

A

that ever drifted by

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16. ATMOSPHERIC CONDIDTIONS

guitar tuned down 1/2 step

guitar 2 follows chords on slide:

--------10--------------12--------------15-------

-----10----10--------12----12---------15---15----

-/10----------10-/12----------12--/15--------15--etc.

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D E G

There's nobody there's no mountain there's no tunnel

D

you can't get from there to here

E G

you can't get from here to there

(repeat)

There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere

(nothing twisted round, burning down, come around)

There hasn't been a change for over a year

(sliding through the water through hiding you)

There hasn't been a change in the atmosphere

(shut it up, roll it up, find a new)

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