Bone to Bone Coney Island White Fish Boy

Song

Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)

(Steven Tyler/Joe Perry)

Performed by Aerosmith on "Night In The Ruts"(1979)

The riff from this song and the orgiastic solos make this one of my

all-time favorite Aerosmith songs. Unfortunately I can't help anyone with

the solos but here's what I came up with for the riff:

e|-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|---5---------------------------------------------------|
D|-------7p6p0---5---------------------------5---6---7---|
A|-------------------5p4p0---3------0--------5---6---7---|
E|-------------------------------------0-----3---4---5---|

That riff is repeated throughout the song (you'll have to listen to

the song to figure out exactly where). During the "runnin' with the pack"

part, one of the guitars plays something like this:

...runnin' with the pack...

e|-----------------------------------|
B|----11b(full and release)---9h11p9b|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

...and never lookin' back...

e|-----------------------------------|
B|----14b(hold)r-------12h14p12b-----|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

...knows just where he's been...

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----15b(full)r--------------------|
G|-----14b(full)r------12h14p12b-----|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

That's it for the guitar parts that I came up with. If anyone knows

any more, please don't hesitate to post them. The lyrics are as follows:

Flatbush boy cruisin' Sheepshead Bay

His boardwalk mama just a sniff away

Underground DMT ridin' thunder train

The Coney Island White Fish Boy is on the run again!

Ooh, runnin' with the pack

Ooh, never lookin' back

Ooh, knows just where he's been

That Coney Island White Fish Boy's been there and back again!

She'd be screamin' "Coney!"

She'd be dreamin' "Coney!"

Go get em' Coney

Sixteen years with his boardwalk queen

Steeplechase she used to wet his dream

She combs her hair, that flaming jewel, streaked with Clorox Bleach

Coney's gettin down and dirty, snortin' up the beach

(etc.)

"A Coney Island White Fish is a scumbag. When you lived by the

Hudson River like I did, you always saw these things floating by on their

way to sea. They were rubbers - guys would tie 'em up and they'd just keep

floating. And that, boys and girls, is a Coney Island White Fish."

-Steven Tyler