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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 18:16:02 -0700
From: Gabriel Legba Wintermute
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Subject: TAB: Blank Generation by Richard Hell
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
Before I was even born
It's such a gamble when you get a face
It's fascinatin' to observe what the mirror does
But when I die it's to the wall that I set my face
Chorus: I belong to the blank generation, and
I can take it or leave it each time, well
I belong to the ----- generation
I can take it or leave it each time
Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)
Triangles falling at the window as the doctor cursed
He was a cartoon, long forsaken by the public eye
The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first
The doctor grabbed my throat and said, "God's consolation prize!"
CHORUS
Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords)
(repeat)
To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash
Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in your vacant--lot
Then lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks
And hold beneath my eyelids every passing thought
CHORUS
CHORUS (quietly)
Oooo oooo oooo oooo
Oooo oooo oooo oooo
Waah oooooooo
Em (pick strings)
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