Dont Call Me Whitev4

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From: gperez@netcom.com (Gustavo Perez)

Subject: TAB Don't Call Me White by NOFX UPDATED

NOFX --- Don't Call Me White

as performed on the Punk-O-Rama album (and I think Punk in Drublic)

Transcribed by Gus Perez (gperez@netcom.com)

Email me any comments or questions.

Anyone and everyone is allowed to add their 2 cents and correct whatever

I did wrong...correct the lyrics also, I'm sure I'm wrong there a couple

of times. I didn't get this off the Punk In Drublic album so I didn't

have access to the lyrics, I had to guess at them. I don't even know if

the PID album even has the lyrics...

REVISION: 5/12/95:

I thank the (three people who mailed me the lyrics to this song. I have now

updated the tab so the lyrics are correct (should be, at least).

Played in standard E tuning. Lots of distortion, pretty high presence.

Riff 1 Riff 2

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

d----2---2-2-2----2-2---------------------2-----------------|

a----2---2-2-2----2-2---------------------2-----------------|

^^^ play with the riff a little,

it's on the right track

Chord Diagrams

F#5 E5 A5 C#5 E5ii D5

xxx xxx xxx x xx x xx x xx

1|||||2fr ||||||1fr 1|||||5fr |1||||4fr |1||||7fr |1||||5fr

Don't call me white, don't call me white

Don't call me white, don't call me white

Your connotations wearing my nuts thin

Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in

I understand that language

breeds stereotype

But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?

Don't call me white, don't call me white

Don't call me white, don't call me white

I wasn't brought here, I was born

Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn

does this mean I have to take such shit

for being fair skinned, no!

I ain't part of no conspiracy, I'm just your average Joe

Don't call me white, don't call me white

Don't call me white, don't call me white

C#5 [palm muted]

Represents everything I hate

The soap shoved in your mouth to cleanse the mind

C#5 C#5 [palm muted]

A vast majority I've sheep, a buttoned collar, starched and bleached

constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows

they're so fuckin ordinary

White, Don't call me white

INTERLUDE OF NOISE & FEEDBACK (cool...)

E5ii D5 A5

Oh, we're better off this way

E5ii D5 A5

Oh, say what you're gonna say

So go ahead and label me, an asshole cause I can

Accept responsibility for what I've done, but not for who I am

Don't call me white

Don't call me white, don't call me white