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Straight Up and Down

Artist: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Title: Straight Up and Down

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Standard tuning, pretty straight forward and repeats itself often.

Intro/ Main Riff (repeat twice)

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Second Main Riff/ (repeat twice)

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Verse 1 (clean) repeat twice

options space=10 font-size=12 tabstave notes :q 5-5/5 7-7b9/2 | 5/2 7/3 | 5-5/5 4-4/3 | 5/4 tabstave notes :q 5-5/5 7-7/2 | 5-5/5 4-4/3 options space=15

Second Main Riff Again x 2

Chorus - x 2

(can be regular chords or power chords, doesn't matter)

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Then Outro Riff once (clean still)

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Intro Riff again x 1

Verse Riff again x 2

Chorus chords again x 2

Outro riff again (still clean)

Bridge

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Bridge Repeats while Lead plays over with this (slightly distorted)

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Solo

(clean with probably some wah, bridge position, lots of bends) Feel free to mess around on it, as it'll sound good anyway, just keep bending

Second Guitar plays chorus in the background

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Outro (heavily distorted, let feedback ring at the end)

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Lyrics

D G D G
i try to see well i guess that i'm blind
D G D G
it's fine with me cause i'm going to keep trying
D G D G
and i've made disapointment my very best friend
D G D G
i wait and see who your going to be and when

D C
we don't want you be yourself
G
you see
D
we want you to free yourself
D C G
it does no good to pretend that you are free
D
i can not see you
C
i love you but it drags me down

D G
cause i know it so well
D G
how i never could tell
D G
who's my very best friend?
D G
how i know you so well
D G
who's my very best friend?
D G
how i know you so well

i could make you be me.

D G A G G A G
I spent all the money i had just to treat you real fine
D G A G D G A G
you know i will get what i want, while im getting whats mine
D G A G G A G
i see you know no shame you wont give me the chance
D G A G D G
im begging your momma and your daddy just to give me the chance
A G
im getting nothing