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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 09:57:08 -0600
From: Stephen Dranger
Subject: TAB
Artist: Green Day
Song: 2000 Light Years Away
Album: Kerplunk!
Correction by Stephen Dranger
sdranger@athena.valpo.edu
I decided to correct and format the existing TAB of this song.
Mucho thanks to miller6@aol.com. Follows is the corrected TAB,
plus some bass TAB.
From: miller6@aol.com
Subject: 2000_light_years_away.tab
Here is yet another awesome Green Day song from Kerplunk! that was
posted in an ftp, but it was missing key parts needed to play the
song, so I have added them so you can play the whole song. This is
NOT IN STANDARD TUNING!!! If you want to play it right you HAVE TO
tune down a half step, because the E is open. NOTE: You do tune down
one half-step, BUT you still play the chord names as if you were in
standard tuning:
B: x244xx
E: 022xxx
F#: 244xxx
etc...
(looks best in Courier)
Intro: B B F# G# F# Play that 4x for intro
Intro and Verse bass TAB looks like this:
-----------------------------|----------------------------|
-----------------------------|---------4------------------|
-2--2--2-----------------2-4-|-2--2--2----------------2-4-| repeat,etc.
---------2--4---2-2--2-4-----|------------4---2-2--2-4----|
Verse 1:
B F#
I sit alone in my bedroom
B F#
Staring at the walls
B F#
I've been up all damn night long
B F#
My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning
Chorus:
G# B
I hold my breath and close my eyes ----play-this-twice--------
G# F# ---------------------------
And dream about her... --3\4-4-4--3\4-4-4---------
E F# *===> --3\4-4-4--3\4-4-4---------
Cause she's 2000 light years away --1\2-2-2--1\2-2-2---------
G# B ---------------------------
She holds my malakite so tight so
A F#
Never let go...
E F# B B F# G# F# (4x)
Cause she's 2000 light years away
Verse 2:
B F#
I sit outside and watch the sunrise
B F#
Lookout as far as I can
B F#
I can't see her, but in the distance
B F#
I hear some laughter, we laugh together
Chorus
"Solo":
Bass plays alone w/ guitar feedback in background 4x
Last time guitar plays lick:
Eb: |------7-----------|
Bb: |---/7---7---------|
Gb: |----------9/11----|
Db: |---------------9/-|
enter lyrics w/bass only:
I sit alone in my bedroom
Staring at the walls
I've been up all damn night long *==> harmonics down: E: -21//////////-
My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning
Chorus
zach
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