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From: OpenFace@aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:03:52 -0400
Subject: TAB: Jawbreaker, "Chesterfield K
"Chesterfield King"
written and performed by Jawbreaker
(C) and (P) 1992 Punk: The Other White Meat music (BMI)
from the Tupelo/Communion release Bivouac (Comm 38-2, Tup 38-2)
transcribed by Mike Ripplinger (openface@aol.com)
[Notes]
* (p) = palm-muted
* I'm not the best at transcribing solos, so the solo may be inaccurate
* The F#/G chord is a G power chord with the root lowered a half-step:
D---5--|
A---5--|
E---2--|
***
["Chesterfield King"]
[ GC GC GC GC ]
[Verse]
G E B (p) C (p)
We stood in your room and laughed out loud
G E A C
Suddenly the laughter died, we were caught in an eye to eye
G E B (p) C (p)
We sat on the floor and did we sit close
G E
I could smell your thoughts and thought,
A C
"Do you want to touch a lot like me?"
G C G
Too scared to say a thing
[Pre-chorus]
B (p) C (p)
Left your house and kicked myself
E (p) D (p) C
Put those feelings on a shelf to die
B (p) C (p)
Guess I'm not the gambling type
E (p) D (p) C
Think of what the two of us had lost Had lost
[Verse]
I needed some time to think it out
7-Eleven parking lot, a toothless woman turned and stopped
Gave her a dime and a Chesterfield
She leaned down and kissed my cheek
I was scared but it felt sweet Felt so sweet
[Pre-chorus]
She asked me if I had a name
Told her I was glued up on some chick
We sat and smoked against the wall
Drank a beer, felt the chill of fall Of fall
[Chorus]
G F#/G E D C
I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house
B A
I drove so fast
G F#/G E D C
The wind it couldn't cool me down so I turned it around
B A
And came back up
G F#/G E D
You were waiting on your step, steam chilling off your
C B A
breath and water in your eyes
G F#/G E D
We pulled each other into one, parkas clinging on the
C B D
lawn, and kissed right there
[ GC GC GC GC ]
[Solo over verse]
h = hammer-on
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
E--------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------------------------
G---0-----0----0-----0-----------------------------------------------
D------0-----0---0-----0---------------------------------------------
A--------------------------9h10--9\7--7h9--7\5--5h7--5\3--3h5--3\2---
E--------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------|
G---0-----0----0-----0-------------------------------|
D------0-----0---0-----0-----------------------------|
A--------------------------10/12--12/14--14/15-------|
E----------------------------------------------------|
...and repeat
[Pre-chorus]
Said my chicks all smoke these things
Handed you a Chesterfield King
Held your hand and watched TV
Traced the little lines along your palm Your palm
[Repeat chorus]
[Play chorus progression once, palm muting all chords]
[End on G]
