Get on the Snake

Song

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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:50:47 -0600

From: ponies2@computek.net (Keith Barron)

Subject: Get On The Snake - Soundgarden

Song: Get On The Snake

Band: Soundgarden

Album: Louder Than Love

Tuning: Standard

Here's a really cool song. Most of its in 9/4 time though...so you can't

dance to it.

Intro:

(1/4) (4/4) Hoo!

G------||-----------------|----------------|-------------------|

D-DRUM-||o----------------|----------------|-------------------|

A-FILL-||o----------------|----------------|-------------------|

E------||--3b--5-3-5-3-5--|-3b--5-3-5-3-5--|-3b--5-3-5-/8-7-5--|

Play 3 times

G-----------------||

D----------------o||

A----------------o||
E-3b--5-3-5-3-5---||

Don't play the last bar the third time and hold the last note for 2 more beats.

Guit. 2 comes in the second time playing this with harmonics:

Play 3 1/2 times

E||-------------------------|---------------------------||
B||-------------------------|-----7-7-7-----------------||
G||o----7-7-7---------------|------------7-7-7---------o||
D||o-----------7-7-7----7---|-------------------7---7--o||
A||-------------------7---7-|---------------------7-----||
E||-------------------------|---------------------------||

Hold the last note there as well.

Verse: (9/4) Play 4X

G||-----------------------------------------------------||
D||o---------------------------------------------------o||
A||o-7----5------------------5h7--5--------------------o||
E||------------7--5--3--0--------------7--5--3--0-------||

Chorus: (9/4)

G---------------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A-7----5------------------5h7--5--------------------|
D-----------7--5--3--0--------------7--5--3--5------|

(4/4)

G-------------------------|---------------------------|
D-------------------------|---------------------------|
A-5h7--5------------------|----------5-h-7------------|
E-----------7--5--3--6----|-(6)-------------5--0------|

Then play the 2 other verses like above but gtr. 2 plays these notes instead

of the 7 and 5 on the A string:

2nd Verse: 3rd Verse:

E------------|--------------|
B--9----7----|--5-----3-----|
G--9----7----|--7b----5b----|
D--9----7----|--------------|
A------------|--------------|
E------------|--------------|

Play this after the last chorus and during solo:

(4/4) Play alot

G||-----------------------|--------------------------------||
D||o----------------------|-------------------------------o||
A||o-5--------------------|------5h7--5-------------------o||
E||------0----7--5--3--0--|-(0)------------7--5--3--0------||

Then play:

(4/4)

G------------|------------|------------|------------|
D------------|------------|------------|------------|
A--7--5------|-(5)--------|------------|------------|
E------------|------------|--7--5------|-(5)--------|

(Bass starts playing the solo riff)

G------------|------------|------------|------------|
D------------|------------|------------|------------|
A------------|------------|------------|------------|
E--3--0------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|

FEEDBACK^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Outro is:

(4/4)

G||---9--------|-/13--------|-\9--------|-\7--------|
D||o-----------|------------|-----------|-----------|
A||o--7--------|-/11--------|-\7--------|-\5--------|
E||------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
G|-/9----------|-/14--------|-\13-------|-\9--------||
D|-------------|------------|-----------|----------o||
A|-/7----------|-/12--------|-\11-------|-\7-------o||
E|-------------|------------|-----------|-----------||
G||--99999999--|-/1313131313-|-\1111111111-|-/1414141414--||
D||o-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||
A||o-77777777--|-/1111111111-|-\-9-9-9-9-9-|-/1212121212-o||
E||------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||

End with this:

E--0-----------------||
B--------------------||
G--9-----------------||
D--------------------||
A--7-----------------||
E--0-----------------||

Lyrics:

Get on the snake

With a swarm of motor flies

Get on the snake

Under the Cola colored sky

Don't worry, everything's clean

Road worthy, hungry and mean

Get on the snake

Where the metal river bleeds

Get on the snake

Where you never will believe

Hey baby, what's your disease

My heart's bleeding, I'm dying to leave

Get on the snake

Where the water turns to steam

Get on the snake

With a suicide machine

Don't worry, everything's clean

Road worthy, hungry and mean

Hungry and mean...

Hungry and mean...

The song is about a road. Not a penis. I'm working on 'Full On Kev's Mom'

because I couldn't find the tab anywhere and I figured I owed it to society

to tab it out. Also coming soon:

'I Awake'

'Hands All Over'

I want the tab to 'No Wrong, No Right'