View Guitar Chords for Heroin - chords ver. 2
The Velvet Underground - Heroin Modified By : Louis Cuthbert , Corrections / other questions : [email protected] Adapted From : http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/v/velvet_underground/heroin_crd.htm : Big Thanks To Spazomaniac for this version. Thanks for playing, please rate - and good luck learning. TUNING ( NOT STANDARD ) - ( LOWEST to HIGHEST : E A C# G B E ) This can be done without a tuner: Play the 4th Fret on the A String and then tune down the D String slowly until they make the same sound. ( It is not very far only 1 semitone / one fret down ) This is done so you can have a drone ( the C# string ringing ) all through the track . Tried to get it closer to the album version I have Ideally - 1 guitar to play the riff and the second to strum the chords. - But sounds good acoustic with one guitarist. Chords : | C# - xx0121 | | C#2 [Version 1]* - xx0322 | | C#2 [Version 2]* - xx5322 | | C#2 [Version 3]* - 2x0322 | *NOTE - The different versions of the chord can be used give the C#2 a building effect similar to the way they do it on the track ALSO NOTE - Neither the E String or the A String are played open in any chord. Riff : |: C# | C#2 :| e |-------------------2p1--------------------------------------------------| B |------------2----------2------------------2----2-h4p2-------------------| G |---------1-----1---------1-------------3-----3--------3-----------------| C#|-----0-----------0-0-----0----------0----------0-0----0---(let ring)----| A |------------------------------------------------------------------------| E |------------------------------------------------------------------------| Here the drone is created by a pattern of strikes on the open C# String like : dum... dum.dum... dum... dum.dum... etc. Same Chords all the way through*, See above ^^ . Just listen to the track to get the timing. Lyrics:C# I C#2 don't knoC#w C#2 just where I'm goiC#ng C#2 C# C#2 But C#I'm C#2 gonna trC#y for the kingdC#2om if I caC#nCuz it makes me fC#2eel like I'm a manC# When I put a sC#2pike into my veinC#Then, I tell ya', tC#2hings aren't quite the sameC# When I'm C#2rushin' on my runC#And I fC#2eel just like Jesus' sonC# And I gC#2uess that I just don't knoC#wAnd I gC#2uess that I just don't knowC#C#I C#2 have madeC# C#2 big decisioC#ns C#2 C# C#2 C#I'm C#2 gonna tryC# C#2 to nullify my lifeC#Cuz when the blC#2ood begins to flowC# When it sC#2hoots up the dropper's necC#kWhen I'm clC#2osing in on deathC#After this line, Morrison interjects with a riff B, which is to be repeated as necessary: e |-----7---7---9---7--------| B |-----8---8---10--8--------| G |-----7---7---9---7--------| C#|--------------------------| A |--------------------------| E |--------------------------|And you can't C#2help me, not you guysC# Or all you sweet gC#2irls with all your sweet talkC#You can aC#2ll go take a walkC# And I gC#2uess I just don't knowC#And I gC#2uess that I just don't knowC#C# I C#2 wish thatC# C#2I was born a thousand years agoC# C#2 C# C#2 C#I C#2 wish thatC# C#2 I'd sailed the darkened seas C#On a gC#2reat big clipper ship C# Going from tC#2his land here to thatC#Ah, in a sC#2ailor's suit and cap C# C#2 C# C#2 C# Away fC#2rom the big citC#yWhere a mC#2an cannot be freeC# Of all of the eC#2vils of this townC#And of himsC#2elf and those aroundC# Oh, and I gC#2uess that I just don't knowC#Oh, and I gC#2uess that I just don't knowC#C# HeeC#2eeeroiC#n C#2 Be the death of meC# C#2 C# C#2C# HeeC#2eeeroiC#n It's my wC#2ife and it's my lifC#eBecause a maiC#2nline to my veinC# Leads to a ceC#2nter in my headC#And then I'm bC#2etter off as deadC# Because when the smC#2ack begins to flowC#Ah, I rC#2eally don't care anC#ymore About all the C#2jim-jims in this townC#And all the politC#2icians makin' busy soundC#s And everybody pC#2uttin' everybody else downC#And all the dead C#2bodies piled up in NamC# Play riff B a few timesCuz when the C#2smack begins to flC#ow Then IC#2 really don't care anymorC#eAh, when that hC#2eroin is in my blooC#d And that bC#2lood is in my headC#Then thank C#2god that I'm good as deadC# And thank your C#2god that I'm not awarC#eAnd thank C#2god that I just don't carC#e And I gC#2uess I just don't knoC#wAh, and I gC#2uess I just don't knoC#w End on C#