Your Dad Did

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  • |A |D/A | x4
     
    A D/A
  • Well the sun comes up and you stare your cup of coffee up
    A D/A
    Right through the kitchen floor
  • A
    And you feel like hell, so you might as well
    D/A A D/A
  • Get out and sell your smart ass door-to-door
    D D/C# D/B D/A A
    And the missus wears her robe slightly undone
  • D D/C# D/B D/A A
    As your daughter dumps her oatmeal on your son
    E A
  • And you keep it hid - just like your dad did
     
    So you go to work just to watch some jerk
  • Pick up the perks you were in line to get
    And the guy that hired you just got fired
    Your job's expired - they just ain't told you yet
  • So you go and buy a brand new set of wheels
    Just to show your family just how great you feel
    Acting like a kid - just like your dad did
  •  
    F#m E D A
    And you're a chip off the old block
  • F#m E D A
    Why does it come as such a shock
    F#m E D A
  • That every road up which you walk
    D E
    Your dad already did?
  • Yeah you've seen the old man's ghost
    Come back as green chip beef on toast
    Now if you don't get your slice of the roast
  • You're gonna flip your lid - just like your dad did
     
    Well the day was long, now supper's on
  • And the thrill is gone, but something's taking place
    Yeah the food is cold and your wife feels old
    But all hands folded as your two year old says grace
  • She says "Help the starving children to get well
    But let my brother's hamster burn in hell"
    You love your wife and kids - just like your dad did
  • Just like your dad did.
     
    I had to stop myself from doing a full tab of this - I think Ry Cooder
  • would find me and rip my arms and legs off just for missing the point
    if I did. Beyond the riff itself, this song is obviously completely
    improvised - the electric basically follows the chords at various
  • places along the neck, sometimes scooping into the root note and
    playing with the whammy bar - always good for a bit of childish fun.
    Note that the electric is dropped-D tuned (low to high DADGBE) to
  • get in some low Ds. I just love the attitude of this song - notice
    the way that between the verses the guitar will start playing the
    riff late, like he'd forgotten, but doesn't really care much! I'm
  • really jarred off that I'm not old enough to play this song
    convincingly.
     
  • Anyway, the riff goes something like
    + + + + + + + +
    |---------|---------|
  • |---------|---------|
    |---------|---------|
    |-7-6-4-2-|-0-------|
  • |---------|---4-2-0-|
    |---------|---------|
    In the introduction, this is built up each time by harmonising it -
  • listen to the album, cause I'm not going to tab it.
     
    Mostly, the verses are built up by messing with these 2 (vaguely
  • Free's All Right Now-ish) chords: A-x02225, D/A-x04235.
    Occasionally he fiddles about with chords way up the neck like:
    A/C#-x x 11 9 10 9, D-x x 12 11 10 10.
  •  
    The following is played at the end of each verse before '- just like
    your dad did'- (remember that the guitar is dropped-D tuned)
  • + + + + +
    |-----------------|-----------|
    |-----------------|-----------|
  • |-----------------|-----------|
    |-----------------|-----------|
    |-----------2-4---|-----------|
  • |---2-4-2/6-------|-2---------|
     
    The riff after the 2nd verse is changed so it leads to the bridge like
  • this:
    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    |---------|---------|---------|---------|---
  • |---------|---------|---------|---------|---
    |---------|---------|---------|---------|---
    |---7-6-4-|-2-0-----|---7-6-4-|-2-------|---
  • |---------|-----4-2-|-0-------|---4-0---|---
    |---------|---------|---------|-------2-|-4-
     
  • The acoustic guitar is standard tuned and plays mostly first position
    chords: A-x02220, D-xx0232, E-022100, F#m-244222
    On the live Budokan version, the acoustic guitar solo bit before the
  • third verse is just him messing about with these chords:
    A-xx765x, E-xx645x, D-xx423x.
    Note also that on the Budokan version, the acoustic sort of copies the
  • sitar riff after "Help the starving children to get well" with
    ---------4-5---
    -3-2-3-5------- (loose timing)
  • ---------------
    ---------------
    ---------------
  • ---------------
     
    Finally, the wee bass fill after "Something's taking place" is:
  • + + + + +
    --14-13----|-11----------11----|
    --------14-|-----11-14---------|
  • -----------|-----------------12|
    -----------|-------------------|
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