Morissette Alanis

Morissette Alanis - Ironic bass tab

Song Title: Ironic

Artist: Alanis Morissette

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IRONIC - ALANIS MORISSETTE

Bass tablature

Transcribed by Louis Visscher

Notation legend: h = hammer on; \ = slide down; / = slide up

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INTRO: no bass

Hey-ey, hey,..." etc etc

VERSE 1: no bass

An old man turned ninety-eight.

He won the lottery, and died the next day.

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay.

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.

Isn't it ironic...don't you think?

CHORUS:

It's like rai-

Fig. 1

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-7\-|-2-----2-----------------------4-|-2-----2-----4-------4-----------|

-ai-ain on your wedding day It's a free

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|-2-----2-------------------------|-2-----2-----4-------4-----------|

ride that you've already paid. It's the good ad-

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|-------------2-----1-2-------1-1-|---------------------------------|

|-2-----2-------------------------|-2-----2-----4-----2h4-----------|

-vice that you just didn't take. And

End fig.1

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who would have thought.... it figures.

VERSE 2: repeat Fig.2, and sometimes play the notes between ()

Fig.2 End Fig.2

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|-1-----1-----2-----2----(2)------|-1-----1-------------------------|

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Mr. Play It Safe.................. was afraid to fly. He packed his

suitcase and kissed his........... kids goodbye. He waited his

whole damn life just to........... take that flight. And as the

plane crashed down he thought "Well isn't this nice..." And isn't it I-

ronic?..... don't you

last bar of verse 2:

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think? It's like rai-ai--

CHORUS: play Fig.1, but replace the last bar by:

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|-----------------4-----4---------|

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|-2-----2-----2h4-----------------|

it figures.

BRIDGE:

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

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's

okay and

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|-0-----0-----0-------2/4---------|-2-----2-----2-------2-----------|

everything's going right. And

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|-0-----0-----0-------0-----------|-2-----2-----2-------2/4---2-----|

life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's

gone wrong and

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|---------------------------------|-9-----8-------------------------|

|---------------------------------|-------------9-------------------|

|-0-----0-----0-------0-----------|---------------------7-----------|

everything blows up in your face.

VERSE 3: repeat Fig.3

Fig.3 End Fig.3

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|-1-----------2-------------------|-1-------------------------------|

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A traffic jam, when you're........already late............A no-

smoking sign on your..............cigarette break.........It's like

ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.........It's

meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.

And isn't it I-

ronic.................don't you think?............. A little too I-

ronic, .................and yeah I really do think it's like rai-ai-

CHORUS: play Fig.1, but replace last bar by:

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|-2-----2-----2-------2-----------|

figures

OUTRO

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|/7-----------------------9-/-11--|-9-----------------------------6-|

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And you-ou-ou

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|-7-----------------9/11----9/11--|-9---------------------------9h11-|

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Life has a funny way of you-ou-ou Ooh-ooh

sneaking up on

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|-7-----------------9/11----------|-9-------------------------------|

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life has a funny, funny way of helping you

| + . + . + . + . | Free time. Slow down

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

|---------------------------------|-----------7h9------7------------

out... helping you out

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Submitted by: Louis Visscher (Visscher@alg.frg.eur.nl)

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