Velvet Underground – Heroin chords
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************************************************************************************************ The Velvet Underground - Heroin ************************************************************************************************ Modified By : Louis Cuthbert , Corrections / other questions : louis_cuthbert@hotmail.co.uk Adapted From : http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/v/velvet_underground/heroin_crd.htm : Big Thanks To Spazomaniac for this version. Thanks for playing, please rate - and good luck learning. ************************************************************************************************ TUNING ( NOT STANDARD ) - ( LOWEST to HIGHEST : E A C# G B E ) This can be done without a tuner: Play the 4th Fret on the A String and then tune down the D String slowly until they make the same sound. ( It is not very far only 1 semitone / one fret down ) This is done so you can have a drone ( the C# string ringing ) all through the track . ************************************************************************************************ Tried to get it closer to the album version I have Ideally - 1 guitar to play the riff and the second to strum the chords. - But sounds good acoustic with one guitarist. Chords : | C# - xx0121 | | C#2 [Version 1]* - xx0322 | | C#2 [Version 2]* - xx5322 | | C#2 [Version 3]* - 2x0322 | *NOTE - The different versions of the chord can be used give the C#2 a building effect similar to the way they do it on the track ALSO NOTE - Neither the E String or the A String are played open in any chord. Riff : |: C# | C#2 :|e |-------------------3p2--------------------------------------------------|B |------------2----------2------------------2----2-h4p2-------------------|G |---------1-----1---------1-------------3-----3--------3-----------------|C#|-----0-----------0-0-----0----------0----------0-0----0---(let ring)----|A |------------------------------------------------------------------------|E |------------------------------------------------------------------------|Here the drone is created by a pattern of strikes on the open C# String like : dum... dum.dum... dum... dum.dum... etc. Same Chords all the way through*, See above ^^ . Just listen to the track to get the timing. Lyrics:C# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 I don't know just where I'm goingC# C#2 C# C#2 C#But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I canC#2 C#Cuz it makes me feel like I'm a manC#2 C#When I put a spike into my veinC#2 C#Then, I tell ya', things aren't quite the sameC#2 C#When I'm rushin' on my runC#2 C#And I feel just like Jesus' sonC#2 C#And I guess that I just don't knowC#2 C#And I guess that I just don't knowC# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2I have made big decisionsC# C#2 C# C#2 C#I'm gonna try to nullify my lifeC#2 C#Cuz when the blood begins to flowC#2 C#When it shoots up the dropper's neckC#2 C#When I'm closing in on deathAfter this line, Morrison interjects with a riff B, which is to be repeated as necessary:e |-----7---7---9---7--------|B |-----8---8---10--8--------|G |-----7---7---9---7--------|C#|--------------------------|A |--------------------------|E |--------------------------|C#2 C#And you can't help me, not you guysC#2 C#Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talkC#2 C#You can all go take a walkC#2 C#And I guess I just don't knowC#2 C#And I guess that I just don't knowC# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 I wish that I was born a thousand years agoC# C#2 C# C#2 C#I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seasC#2 C#On a great big clipper shipC#2 C#Going from this land here to thatC#2 C# C#2 C# C#2Ah, in a sailor's suit and capC# C#2 C# Away from the big cityC#2 C#Where a man cannot be freeC#2 C#Of all of the evils of this townC#2 C#And of himself and those aroundC#2 C#Oh, and I guess that I just don't knowC#2 C#Oh, and I guess that I just don't knowC# C#2 C# HeeeeeroinC#2 C# C#2 C# C#2 Be the death of meC# C#2 C# HeeeeeroinC#2 C#It's my wife and it's my lifeC#2 C#Because a mainline to my veinC#2 C#Leads to a center in my headC#2 C#And then I'm better off as deadC#2 C#Because when the smack begins to flowC#2 C#Ah, I really don't care anymoreC#2 C#About all the jim-jims in this townC#2 C#And all the politicians makin' busy soundsC#2 C#And everybody puttin' everybody else downC#2 C#And all the dead bodies piled up in NamPlay riff B a few timesC#2 C#Cuz when the smack begins to flowC#2 C#Then I really don't care anymoreC#2 C#Ah, when that heroin is in my bloodC#2 C#And that blood is in my headC#2 C#Then thank god that I'm good as deadC#2 C#And thank your god that I'm not awareC#2 C#And thank god that I just don't careC#2 C#And I guess I just don't knowC#2 C#Ah, and I guess I just don't knowEnd on C#