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From: gperez@netcom.com (Gustavo Perez)
Subject: TAB Don't Call Me White by NOFX UPDATED
NOFX --- Don't Call Me White
as performed on the Punk-O-Rama album (and I think Punk in Drublic)
Transcribed by Gus Perez (gperez@netcom.com)
Email me any comments or questions.
Anyone and everyone is allowed to add their 2 cents and correct whatever
I did wrong...correct the lyrics also, I'm sure I'm wrong there a couple
of times. I didn't get this off the Punk In Drublic album so I didn't
have access to the lyrics, I had to guess at them. I don't even know if
the PID album even has the lyrics...
REVISION: 5/12/95:
I thank the (three people who mailed me the lyrics to this song. I have now
updated the tab so the lyrics are correct (should be, at least).
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Played in standard E tuning. Lots of distortion, pretty high presence.
Riff 1 Riff 2
e--------------------------------------------0-0------------
b------------------------------------------------0----------
g----1---2-2-1----1-1---------------------1-----------------
d----2---2-2-2----2-2---------------------2-----------------
a----2---2-2-2----2-2---------------------2-----------------
e-----------------------------------------0-----------------
^^^ play with the riff a little,
it's on the right track
Chord Diagrams
F#5 E5 A5 C#5 E5ii D5
xxx xxx xxx x xx x xx x xx
1|||||2fr ||||||1fr 1|||||5fr |1||||4fr |1||||7fr |1||||5fr
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F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
F#5 A5 E5
Your connotations wearing my nuts thin
F#5 A5 E5
Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in
F#5 A5
I understand that language
F#5 E5
breeds stereotype
A5
But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?
F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
F#5 A5 E5
I wasn't brought here, I was born
F#5 A5 E5
Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn
F#5 A5
does this mean I have to take such shit
F#5 E5
for being fair skinned, no!
A5
I ain't part of no conspiracy, I'm just your average Joe
F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
F#5 A5 C#5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
C#5 [palm muted]
Represents everything I hate
A5 E5
The soap shoved in your mouth to cleanse the mind
C#5 C#5 [palm muted]
A vast majority I've sheep, a buttoned collar, starched and bleached
A5
constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows
E5
they're so fuckin ordinary
F#5 A5 E5
White, Don't call me white
INTERLUDE OF NOISE & FEEDBACK (cool...)
E5ii D5 A5
Oh, we're better off this way
E5ii D5 A5
Oh, say what you're gonna say
F#5 A5 F#5 E5
So go ahead and label me, an asshole cause I can
A5 F#5
Accept responsibility for what I've done, but not for who I am
A5 E5
Don't call me white
F#5 A5 E5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
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