Hell Richard - Blank Generation guitar tab

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This song is very very similar to the Stray Cats' "Stray Cat Strut" in

pacing and feel, though this is played with a distortion guitar. The

lyric pacing is weird--if you have the album, you might want to listen

to it a few times before you attempt to sing it.

There is an intro which is lead; I don't play lead, and I couldn't even

figure out the chords. If anybody knows them, let me know. The main part

of the song seems to be power strummed chords. Anyway, here it is...

Richard Hell and the Voidoids--Blank Generation

I was sayin' let me out of here

Em D C B

Before I was even born

Em D

It's such a gamble when you get a face

C B

It's fascinatin' to observe what the mirror does

Em D C B

But when I die it's to the wall that I set my face

Em D C B

Chorus: I belong to the blank generation, and

Em D C B

I can take it or leave it each time, well

Em D C B

I belong to the ----- generation

Em D C B

I can take it or leave it each time

Em B7 Em Em

Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)

Em D C B

Triangles falling at the window as the doctor cursed

Em D C B

He was a cartoon, long forsaken by the public eye

Em D C B

The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first

Em D C B

The doctor grabbed my throat and said, "God's consolation prize!"

Em D C B

CHORUS

Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)

Em D C B

(repeat)

To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash

Em D C B

Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in your vacant--lot

Em D C B

Then lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks

Em D C B

And hold beneath my eyelids every passing thought

Em D C B

CHORUS

CHORUS (quietly)

Oooo oooo oooo oooo

Em D C B

Oooo oooo oooo oooo

Em D C B

Waah oooooooo

B7 Em (pick strings)