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Chords in this song2
Song
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Heroin
Tuning: EbAbDbGbBbEb
Riff 1:
Eb|-2-------2---2-|-3-------3-----|-2-----3-2---2-|-3-------3---0-| Bb|-3-----3---3---|-0-----0---0---|-3---------3---|-0-----0---0---| Gb|-2---2---------|-0---0---------|-2---2---------|-0---0---------| Db|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------| Ab|---------------|-2-------------|---------------|-2-------------| Eb|---------------|-3-------------|---------------|-3-------------|
Riff 2:
Eb|-2----7----9---7----|
Bb|-3----8----10--8----| Listen to the song to get the timing for
Gb|-2----7----9---7----| this part - it isn't broken up into bars
Db|-0------------------| here. Ab|--------------------| Eb|--------------------|
Riff 1 x2
Verse
I don't know just where I'm going
D G D G D ---- end of riff 1, strum
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can this chord, and the
G D rest of the chords
Cos it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I tell ya things aren't quite the same when you hit the word
G D "know" at the end of the
When I'm rushing on my run verse, the D chord marks the
G D beginning of riff 1 again,
And I feel just like Jesus' son which contintues until the
Chorus
G D "nullify" in the next verse.
And I guess that I just don't know this pattern continues thru
G D G D G the whole song.
And I guess that I just don't know
Verse
I have made a big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
Cos when the blood begins to flow
And it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
Riff 2 x2
You can't help me not you guys
Oh, all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
Chorus
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
Verse
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap
Riff 2 x2
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all the evils of this town
And of himself and those around
Chorus
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Verse
Her_____oin, it'll be the death of me
Her_____oin, it's my wife, and it's my life
Because a mainline in my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off as dead
Riff 2 x4
Cos when the smack begins to flow
Oh, I really don't care anymore
'Bout all the jim-jims in this town
And all the politicians making crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam
Riff 2 x4
Cos when the smack begins to flow
And I really don't care anymore
Riff 2 x2
When that heroin is in my blood
And the blood is in my head
Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead
And thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
Riff 1 x2
F arpeggio
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