This song is comprised of the following chords; these are not progressions. It has a
feel for eigth notes and the strum is a varied mixture of chops.
The three divisions below are patterns the song follows.
A5 A6 D5 D6 E5 E6 F (RIFF 1)
||-*-------|-*-------|------------|--8---|---------------||
||---------|---------|------------|--10--|---------------||
||---------|---------|------------|--10--|---------------||
||---------|--7---9--|---9---11---|--10--|------------7--||
A||--7---9--|--5---5--|---7----7---|--8---|-----7s--9-----||
||--5---5--|---------|--(0)--(0)--|------|--5------------||
||---5---|--5--|--7--|--8---|
||---5---|--6--|--9--|--10--|
||--(5)--|--7--|--9--|--10--|
||---7---|--7--|--9--|--10--|
||---7---|--5--|--7--|--8---|
||---5---|-----|-----|------|
||---5---|--3--|-----|--2--|--5--||
||---5---|--5--|--5--|--4--|--4--||
||--(5)--|--5--|--5--|--4--|--4--||
||---7---|--5--|--3--|--4--|--4--||
||---7---|--3--|--3--|--2--|--2--||
||---5---|-----|-----|-----|-----||
Here it is completely broken down...
A5 A6 (RIFF 1)
Stolen from an africa land
Chased out with a knife
With a face like Bob Marley and a mouth like a motor bike
Oh well the bars are always open and the time is always right
And if God s good word goes unspoken the music goes all night
And it goes...
If I was Bob Marley I said could you be loved
If I m half pint I m a lord up above
If I was Mike Tyson I d look for a fight
If I was a Boomtown Rat I would be stayin up all night
If I was the king I d rock I would get stupid dumb
If rhymes were valium I d be comfortably numb
If rhymes were valium I d be comfortably numb
Giberish
If I had a shotgun, you know what I d do
I d point that shit straight at the sky
and shoot heaven on down for you
Because the bars are always open and the time is always right
And if God s good word goes unspoken the music goes all night
And it goes...
I want a lover but I can t find the time
I want a reason but I can t find the rhyme
And I want to start static but I can t afford
To get slammed to the ground I fall off my skateborad
Now a days as clear as you please
Get strap with protection or strap with disease
strap with protection or strap with disease
I m strap with protection strap with disea(se)
uh ooh uh uh uh uh
daooh brah bump buh brump buh bump buh buh
ooooh ooh ooh oooh
ooh ooh ooooh
bah dah dah dah ba dah ba dah-pa da ba dah
oh I know I know I know
I know I.... know
Ina wanna wanna aauh uooh
bop bop bop bop bop-da da bah
B7 (5 times)
*NOTE: When playing the choppy parts in the verses, the A5/A6 and D5/D6 can be played
the fifth and fourth strings open respectively.
Tabbed by ADAgosta
