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No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Beastie Boys
TabTuningDrop D
★4.4(82)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|(x4)
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

Foot on the pedal never ever false metal

Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle

E|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-1-1-|
A|-1-1-|
D|-1-1-|

My job's ain't a job it's a damn good time

City to city

I'm running my rhymes

E|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|
A|8r-4r-1-1-|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|

On location touring around the nation

Beastie Boys always on vacation

E|----|
B|----|
G|----|

D|1-1-|

A|1-1-|

D|1-1-|

Itchy trigger finger but a stable turntable

I do what I do best because

I'm illing and able

E|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|
A|8r-4r-1-1-|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|

Ain't no faking your money I'm taking

Going coast to coast watching all the girlies shaking

E|----|
B|----|
G|----|

D|1-1-|

A|1-1-|

D|1-1-|

While you're at the job working nine to five

The Beastie Boys at the Garden cold kickin' it live

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

No sleep 'til -

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

Another plane another train

Another bottle in the brain

Another girl another fight

Another drive all night

Our manager's crazy he always smokes dust

He's got his own room at the back of the bus

E|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-1-1-|
A|-1-1-|
D|-1-1-|

Tour around the world you rock around the clock

Plane to hotel girls on the jock

E|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|
A|8r-4r-1-1-|
D|8r-4r-1-1-|

We're thrashing hotels like it's going out of style

Getting paid along the way cause it's worth your while

E|----|
B|----|
G|----|

D|1-1-|

A|1-1-|

D|1-1-|

Four on the floor Adrock's out the door

M.C.A.'s in the back because he's skeezin' with a whore

E|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-1-1-|
A|-1-1-|
D|-1-1-|

We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack

With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

No sleep 'til -

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
A|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|

NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN! NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN!

                                                  e|-----|

Ain't seen the light since we started this band B|-----| if you have a

M.C.A. get on the mic my man G|-----| whammy bar,

-----| D|-1r--| push it down

-----| A|-1r--| on this part

-----| E|-1r--| =P

-1-1-|
-1-1-|
-1-1-|

Born and bred Brooklyn U.S.A.

They all me Adam Yauch but I'm M.C.A.

Like a lemon to a lime a lime to a lemon

I sip the def ale with all the fly women

E|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-1-1-|
A|-1-1-|
D|-1-1-|

Got limos, arena, TV shows

Autograph pictures and classy hos

E|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-1-1-|
A|-1-1-|
D|-1-1-|

Step off homes get out of my way

Taxing little girlies form here to L.A.

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-1-1-|
-1-1-|
-1-1-|

Waking up before I get to sleep

Cause I'll be rocking this party eight days a week

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

No sleep 'til -

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
A|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|

NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN! NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN!

E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
A|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|
D|---1-------4--------------6-8-4----1-----4---------------6-8-4-|

NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN! NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN!

E|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--| "no sleep till brooklyn" all the way to the end
A|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|
D|1-1-4-6r-8-4--|

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