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Honey Please

fIREHOSE
Bass Tab
4.8(4)

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Song

**BASS TAB for "Honey, please" from the 1987 fIREHOSE album IF'N**

**by Mike Watt, Ed Crawford.**************************************

******************************Published by SST Records************

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It's fantastic and easy to play! Mike Watt is without a doubt the

greatest bass player on the face of the earth so I've surely got

some of the following wrong. It's close enough anyway.

For the GLISS it sounds like the bass slides away from the note to

somewhere lower.

Fig.1 Fig.2

G:|----------|----------|----------|-----------|        |-----|
D:|-9--------|-7--------|-6--------|-7---------|        |--7--|
A:|---11-9-7-|----9-7-6-|----6-7-9-|----7-9-11-|        |-----|
E:|----------|----------|----------|-----------|        |-----|

Fig.3 Fig.4

G:|---------|---------|---------|------|        |----------|
D:|---------|---------|---------|------|        |----------|
A:|---------|---------|---------|------|        |----------|
E:|-7-7-7-7-|-5-5-5-5-|-4-4-4-4-|--5\--|        |-0--7-5-3-|

GLISS

Fig.5

G:|-----------------|
D:|-----------------|
A:|-----------------|
E:|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5\-|

GLISS

Fig.1 (play 3 3/4 times) then Fig.2 : verses 1, 2, 3.

Fig.3 (play twice) : chorus

Fig.4 (play 7 times) then Fig.5 : interlude

Fix a place inside a station

With a pace in time with spacing. Verse 1

Mix the makings, foot the fakings.

Shit forsaken! Lying in the sun baking!

Hey honey please! Honey please! Chorus

Hey honey please! Hey honey!

Meter reading, facts a-feeding.

Got a place on book o'mason. Verse 2

Pert near(?) hard core (koa?) almost nearly more.

I'm embarassed for showing you the other door.

Chorus

Interlude

Keep an eye on there in Washington

Watch the watchingmen there in Washington. Verse 3

Feel for you, feel for me,

feel for the light that liberates the day!

Chorus

Rest 4 measures

Play verse.

Chorus (twice)

That's it. I'll try 'Hellhole' next.

Dan Capper, Birmingham, UK.

DJC@liyorkrd.li.co.uk

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