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Joyride

Built to Spill
Tab
4.8(12)

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

Song

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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 19:58:01 -0600 (MDT)

From: jennifer zwick <jenzwick@unm.edu>

Subject: b/built_to_spill/joyride.tab

this is the second song I learned to play on the guitar. It's off of the

Joyride/Sick and Wrong 7" released around '93? It's a joint International

Pop Underground/K records master.

It's done in bar chords, with that traditional "down-down-up up-down-up"

stroke method.

A D

Saturday I jotted down some words I thought

A E D

All about a girl that I thought I loved

A D

It told the story of what we did and what went wrong

A E D

You've heard it all before; it's the same old shit

solo:

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--------------4-----2---------------------2---1-------|
------0---4---------------4---0---4---0-----------4---|
---2--------------------------------------------------|
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-------------------------------1----------------------|
---------------2---0-------2-----------0--------------|
---0---4---0-----------4-----------2------------------|
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so I won't bore you with all the details

I'm sure that you can listen between the lines

I screwed her and she screwed me but we never once had sex

all we ever had was too much time

SOLO, then

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A \

\

love is just a joyride \

\

E \

\

drink a lot of beer and climb inside \

\

D \

} CHORUS

lay your foot down on the gas /

/

D /

/

leave it there until you crash /

/

A E D D /

/

love's just a joyride /

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A D

this part of the song is called the second verse

A E D

it sounds just like the first verse, but with different words

A D

it only has three chords, and they are A, E and D

A E D

they are A and E and D

SOLO ("there goes the dm...D...uh, A, E, and D...)

CHORUS twice, then

AA C#C# DD DD BB C#C# E!E! E!E!

this repeats, with Dug doing what he does best over top of it.

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