Beautiful Son

Song

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Beautiful Son by Hole

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Classic b-side track purportedly about Kurt Cobain's childhood cross dressing habit.

Either that, or Courtney's anthem for gay guys and drag queens, or maybe it's both.

Regardless, this song is really easy to play, but the deal is that I think the tabs on

here have the main riff slightly off. I've seen this played live and it looks like Riff

B is

played most often, though you can sort of work your way around playing this several

different ways. This sounds more correct to me, though. There are two guitars, Courtney

would probably be playing Riff A clean, and Eric would come in with Riff B distorted.

Not sure if the bridge is entirely correct, but it sounds close.

Tabbed by: Scott H.

"/" = slide up

"\" = slide down

"h" = hammer-on

Tuning: Standard

Riff A (Guitar 1, clean):

e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|--44/5555555\2--------|
D|--44/5555555\2--------|
A|--22/3333333\0--------|
E|----------------------|

Riff A

You look good in my dress

Now get your friends to clean the mess

You look good in my clothes

I can feel you where the doctor goes

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

Riff B (Guitar 2, distorted):

e|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------|
D|--99/10-10-10-10-10-10-10\7----|
A|--99/10-10-10-10-10-10-10\7----|
E|--77/-8--8--8--8--8--8--8\5----|

Riff A/B x 2

Riff A/B

Yeah, no

Yeah, I know

Riff A

He had ribbons in his hair

And lipstick was everywhere

You look good in my dress

You look good in my dress

Riff A

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

Riff A/B x 2

Riff A/B

Yeah, I know

I know

Riff C (Bridge):

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------9-----------------------------------9--------------9999999---|
D|-------------------------------9-9-----------------------------------------|
A|-7h8-9-9-9-9-----7h8-9--9-9-9--------7h8-9-9-9-9-----7h8-9-9-9-9-----------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

You're barren like me

You're barren

Riff A/B

Yeah, I know

Yeah, I know

Riff A/B

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son

My beautiful son