Velvet Underground
Heroin Live?
Tabbed by: Miles
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This tabs if for the live version, I think if not oh well. Guitar 1 comes in at
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I don't know just where I'm going
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but I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can
Strum cords, pattern that can be used: Down, Down, Up, Up, Down, Up
Cos it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I tell ya things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
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I have made a big
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decision
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I'm gonna try to
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Nullify my life
Cos when the blood begins to flow
And it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
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strummed (same pattern)
You can't help me not you guys
Oh, all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
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I wish that I was
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born a thousand years ago
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I wish that I'd sailed the
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darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap
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Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all the evils of this town
And of himself and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
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Her______________________________oin it'll be
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the death of me
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Her_____________________________oin it's
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my wife and it's my life
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Because a mainline in my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off as dead
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Cos when the smack begins to flow
Oh, I really don't care anymore
'Bout all the jim-jims in this town
And all the politicians making crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam
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Cos when the smack begins to flow
And I really don't care anymore
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Strummed
When that heroin is in my blood
And the blood is in my head
Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead
And thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't
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Know
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arpeggio if you want
that's it, easy song...