Color Me Once

Song

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 23:50:52 -0800 (PST)

From: Jonadz <kiddie_grinder_@yahoo.com>

To: guitar@olga.net

Subject: TAB: "Color Me Once" (Violent Femmes)

`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'

; COLOR ME ONCE ;

; Violent Femmes ;

; ;

`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'

Here's what I can offer to get you started. Lyrics are

more or less from Int'l Lyrics Server (lyrics.ch).

Time is 4/4.

INTRO:

e||------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||
B||------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||
G||o-----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------o||
D||o--3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-o||
A||-------------\3---|-----------\3---|-1---------\3---|-----------\3----||
E||-[10]-------------|[5]-------------|[3]-------------|[0]--------------||

Bass follows with the notes tabbed on the E-string (so same tab for the

bass, but an octave higher)

Mute 7th fret Mute 5th fret Mute 7th fret

e||----|------------------||---|-----------------|---|------------------|
B||--R-|------------------||-R-|-----------------|-R-|------------------|
G||o-e-|-----------------o||-e-|-----------------|-e-|------------------|

D||o-s-|-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-o||-s-|-X-X-X-X-X-X-5p0-|-s-|-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--|

A||--t-|------------------||-t-|-----------------|-t-|-8888777766665432-|<-+
E||----|------------------||---|-----------------|---|------------------|

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2nd gtr, palm mute

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VERSE 1:

D5/A C5 D5/A There might be two gtrs here, but in

Color me once, color me twice any case, here's what I've got.

D5/A C5 D5/A

Everything gonna turn out nice

Gm

Everlasting love you gotta

F

Keep me from these false alarms

D5/A C5 D5/A

Sayin alarm, alarm, I seem so sad

D5/A C5 D5/A

Ring, ring, I see her I'm glad

Gm

Maybe, maybe

F

I'm the fire of her desire

D5/A C5 D5/A

Patience, patience said the man

D5/A C5 D5/A

Patience, patience, I can't understand

Gm

Patience like a man and a wife

F

I got patience on my neck like a coco that

D5/A C5 D5/A

I say Jack be nimble, Jack fall dead

D5/A C5 D5/A

Jack bend over and give Jilly head

Gm

Oh, you gotta help my body heal my soul

SOLO 1:

^ = bend

e|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------5---5-7-7^7-5-7---5-7-|
D|-0-2---3-2---0/5---5/7-7-7-7-7-5-7-7-8---8-------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|

2nd gtr plays

some chords here.

e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------77777--------------------|
D|-5-7---8^7---5\3-3-5---7^5-3---77777---7777555533332222-|
A|---------------------------------------5555333311110000-|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|

VERSE 2:

D5/A C5 D5/A

Dead men working, a sinner, a saint

D5/A C5 D5/A

Mixing up a pail of paint

Gm

Painted the house black as night

F

But when the sun came up the house was white

D5/A etc,

Gotta go on, gotta go on

We gotta go on, you gotta go on

We gotta go on

SOLO 2:

Wait til I get a wah-pedal...

OUTRO:

Same as the intro, except for a final A|-X-|.