The Verve Pipe - freshmen guitar tab
"FRESHMEN" ---- Verve Pipe
The following riff opens the song and is used throughout the whole song.
MAIN RIFF:
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----------5------------------5-------5----------
-----4----------------------------4--------------
-2-----------2-----------------------------------
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-0----------------0----------------------------
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---------6--------------------------------------
---4-----------------4-----------------2------
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-0---------------0---------------------------
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-OR- you could play it like:
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------7-------------5--------2-----------------------------------
----9--------6----6--------2-------------------------------------
---9-------7-----6--------2--------------------------------------
--7--7----7-----4--4--2--0--0------------------------------------
---------5--5----------------------------------------------------
This comes in before the second verse:
Guitar2
1--------------------------------------------------------------
2-------------5--7--5------------------5-/sl.-4------------
3-----4--6-----------------------4--6------------------------
4---------------------------------------------------------------
5---------------------------------------------------------------
6---------------------------------------------------------------
The chords during this entire intro/verse/chorus part are E- A- C#m- A
PRE-CHORUS:
("Can't be held responsible. . ") part:
4x:
C# B A
E|--------------|--------------|-----------------|
B|--------------|--------------|--------------2--|
G|--------6-----|-------4------|--------2--------|
D|-----6----6---|----4-----4---|-----2----2------|
A|--4-----------|--2-----------|--0--------------|
E|--------------|--------------|-----------------|
In verse two and three, for that part, play the following riff 4 times. Bend the first note of each phrase
up a bit, and keep the string bent until the next little phrase.
Riff:
E|----------------|--------------|------------------------------|
B|----------------|--------------|------------------------------|
G|----9^--8--9----|--9^--8--9----|--9^--8--9--11--9--8--9-------|
D|----------------|--------------|------------------------------|
A|----------------|--------------|------------------------------|
E|----------------|--------------|------------------------------|
Chorus:
Emaj Amaj
For the life of me I can not remember
C#5 B5 Amaj
What made us think that we were wise
Amaj Emaj
And we'd never compromise
Emaj Amaj
For the life of me I can not believe we'd
e|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------6--------------4-------------------------------|
D|-------6-----------4-------------------7------7-let-ring-|
A|-----4---------2------------------7--------7-------------|
E|-------------------------------5-------------------------|
ever die for these sins we were merely freshmen
This next part comes in near the end of the song.It's sort of a spin off of
the main riff heard throught the whole song.
Guitar 1 or 2
1-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3------(9)----------(9)---(7)--------(7)--------------------6-----
4-------9-------9----------7------7----------6-----4-------7-------------7----
5-------7---7--------------7---7-------------4-----2-------7---------7--------
6---------------------------5----------------------------------5-----5--------
Outro:
E2 C#m E C#m E
E|--------------|--------------|-----------------|-------------|--7--|
B|-----------7--|---------5/4--|-----------10/9--|--------5/4--|--9--|
G|--------9-----|--------------|--------9--------|-------------|--9--|
D|-----9--------|-----6--------|-----9-----------|-----6-------|--9--|
A|--7-----------|--4-----------|--7--------------|--4----------|--7--|
E|--------------|--------------|-----------------|-------------|--x--|
THE FRESHMAN
LYRICS:
when i was young I knew everything
and she a punk who rarely ever took advice
now i'm guilt stricken,
soobing with my head on the floor
stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice
Chorus:
i can't be held responsible
cause she was touching her face
i won't be held responsible
she fell in love in the first place
for the life of me i cannot remember
what made us think that we were wise and
we'd never compromise
for the life of me i cannot believe
we'd ever die for these sins
we were merely freshmen
my best friend took a week's
vacation to forget her
his girl took a week's worth of
valium and slept
now he's guilt stricken sobbing with hi
head on the floor
thinks about her now and how he never really
wept he says
Chorus
we've tried to wash our hands of all of this
we never talk of our lacking relationships
and how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our
heads on the floor
we feel through the ice when we tried not to
slip, we'd say
Chorus
