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Chesterfield Kind

Jawbreaker

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From: OpenFace@aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:03:52 -0400
Subject: TAB: Jawbreaker, "Chesterfield K

"Chesterfield King"
written and performed by Jawbreaker
(C) and (P) 1992 Punk: The Other White Meat music (BMI)
from the Tupelo/Communion release Bivouac (Comm 38-2, Tup 38-2)
transcribed by Mike Ripplinger (openface@aol.com)

[Notes]
* (p) = palm-muted
* I'm not the best at transcribing solos, so the solo may be inaccurate
* The F#/G chord is a G power chord with the root lowered a half-step:
   D---5--|
   A---5--|
   E---2--|

***
["Chesterfield King"]

[ GC GC GC GC ]

[Verse]
G                  E        B (p)       C (p)
  We stood in your room and laughed out loud
G            E              A                    C
Suddenly the laughter died, we were caught in an eye to eye
G               E             B (p)  C (p)
  We sat on the floor and did we sit close
G                  E
I could smell your thoughts and thought,
 A              C
"Do you want to touch a lot like me?"
G     C               G
  Too scared to say a thing

[Pre-chorus]
B (p)               C (p)
Left your house and kicked myself
E (p)              D (p)         C
Put those feelings on a shelf to die
B (p)             C (p)
Guess I'm not the gambling type
E (p)             D (p)         C
Think of what the two of us had lost   Had lost

[Verse]
I needed some time to think it out
7-Eleven parking lot, a toothless woman turned and stopped
Gave her a dime and a Chesterfield
She leaned down and kissed my cheek
I was scared but it felt sweet   Felt so sweet

[Pre-chorus]
She asked me if I had a name
Told her I was glued up on some chick
We sat and smoked against the wall
Drank a beer, felt the chill of fall   Of fall

[Chorus]
G           F#/G             E        D            C
  I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house
  B        A
I drove so fast
G             F#/G             E         D         C
  The wind it couldn't cool me down so I turned it around
    B         A
And came back up
G          F#/G            E           D
  You were waiting on your step, steam chilling off your
C          B             A
breath and water in your eyes
G                F#/G       E           D
  We pulled each other into one, parkas clinging on the
C         B            D
lawn, and kissed right there

[ GC GC GC GC ]

[Solo over verse]

h = hammer-on
/ = slide up
\ = slide down

E--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G---0-----0----0-----0-----------------------------------------------|
D------0-----0---0-----0---------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------9h10--9\7--7h9--7\5--5h7--5\3--3h5--3\2---|
E--------------------------------------------------------------------|

E----------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------|
G---0-----0----0-----0-------------------------------|
D------0-----0---0-----0-----------------------------|
A--------------------------10/12--12/14--14/15-------|
E----------------------------------------------------|

...and repeat

[Pre-chorus]
Said my chicks all smoke these things
Handed you a Chesterfield King
Held your hand and watched TV
Traced the little lines along your palm   Your palm

[Repeat chorus]

[Play chorus progression once, palm muting all chords]

[End on G]