Blank Generation by Richard Hell #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 18:16:02 -0700 From: Gabriel Legba Wintermute Subject: TAB: Blank Generation by Richard Hell This song is very very similar to the Stray Cats' "Stray Cat Strut" in pacing and feel, though this is played with a distortion guitar. The lyric pacing is weird--if you have the album, you might want to listen to it a few times before you attempt to sing it. There is an intro which is lead; I don't play lead, and I couldn't even figure out the chords. If anybody knows them, let me know. The main part of the song seems to be power strummed chords. Anyway, here it is... Richard Hell and the Voidoids--Blank Generation I was sayin' let me out of here Em D C B Before I was even born Em D It's such a gamble when you get a face C B It's fascinatin' to observe what the mirror does Em D C B But when I die it's to the wall that I set my face Em D C B Chorus: I belong to the blank generation, and Em D C B I can take it or leave it each time, well Em D C B I belong to the ----- generation Em D C B I can take it or leave it each time Em B7 Em Em Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords) Em D C B Triangles falling at the window as the doctor cursed Em D C B He was a cartoon, long forsaken by the public eye Em D C B The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first Em D C B The doctor grabbed my throat and said, "God's consolation prize!" Em D C B CHORUS Oooo oooo oooo oooo(same notes as chords) Em D C B (repeat) To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash Em D C B Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in your vacant--lot Em D C B Then lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks Em D C B And hold beneath my eyelids every passing thought Em D C B CHORUS CHORUS (quietly) Oooo oooo oooo oooo Em D C B Oooo oooo oooo oooo Em D C B Waah oooooooo B7 Em (pick strings) www.TAB6.com