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Junkyman

Rancid
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From: SkunX42@aol.com

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:15:54 -0500

Subject: Junkyman by Rancid

Song: Junkyman

Band: Rancid

Album: ...And Out Come the Wolves

Tabbed by: SkunX42@aol.com =

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CHORDS USED

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A F# D E

|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|-----------------7-----9---|
|----7-----4------7-----9---|
|----7-----4------5-----7---|
|----5-----2----------------|

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Intro\Chorus: A, D on one gtr. while other plays lead riff

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|-------5-----5-----5-----5-------------5-----5-----5---5---|
|----------8-----8-----8-----8-------------7-----7----7---7-|
|---6------------------------------7------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|

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Verse: =

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A

the common man doesn't suffer pain like this

D

only the soul that has never been kissed

A

let us adore our beautiful son

D

he's ridin on the rivers of babylon

A

bootin up and shootin up bring on the brightness see the

D

son of god is comin up and i see a likeness

A

internalize the lunacy the misery is showin when you're

D

brought up you're caught up in a system that is goin

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PreChorus:

F# D =

no one answeres no one takes that call from you (repeat), then E

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chorus: (see Intro)

junkyman tell em what your story is

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Verse2: =

water water water water i desire

some parents house is on fire

slowly the house gonna burn to the ground

the neighborhood will watch without a sound

will someone be a witness please tell me that he's crazy

but he's not and they know that and they can't get him cause he's not cra=

zy

beat him lock him knock him take away his authority

hit em ship em club em, submitted conformity

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PreChorus

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CHORUS

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Poetry reading:

my hand went blind, clairvoyant, pure in the veins

i make love to my trance sister went on

and my trance parents see from the balcony

i looked out on the big field

it opens like the cover of an old bible

(play prechorus riff)

and out come the wolves! out come the wolves

their paws trampling in the snow the alphabet

i stand on my head and watch it all go away

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Verse3:

bootin up shootin up and bring on the brightness

see the sun of god is comin up and there is a likeness

internalize the lunacy the misery is showin

when you're brought up you're caught up in a system that is goin

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PreChorus

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CHORUS

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that's it, have fun. send all questions, comments, punk tabs, =

and\or requests (i'll do my best) to me at: SkunX42@aol.com

special thanks to Ryan Cannava for just about this whole song!

oi!

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