Devo - Can You Take It Chords & Tabs

 

Can You Take It Chords & Tabs

Devo Chords & Tabs

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Can You Take It Tab

   
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...Oh, Devo guitar tabs, you say? Will do!
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CAN YOU TAKE IT - Devo
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Tabbed by: Maxwell1981
Email: maxwellmajor1981@yahoo.com
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
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“Can you take it?”*
e|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|8888-6666-|
A|8888-6666-|
E|6666-4444-|
Play that... eight times? I don't know.

Pre-verse:
e|------------|
B|------------|
G|------------|
D|4-2-----0---|
A|-5-1-3'1-1--|
E|----------3-|
Played once before each verse

Verse**:
e|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|------0---|
A|---3'1-1--|
E|--------3-|
This is played ten times in each verse.
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LYRICS:

Can you take it?
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Popeye's big punch knocks Pluto cold
Cartoon people don't go old
Yosemite Sam blows up his head
But you and me wind up dead
Dreamed I laid a toaster
Daddy caught me in the act

Can you take it?

Beauty queens get bigger all the time
Mamma's in a basket, crossed a double Yellow line
Magazines and T.V.s show us nice behinds
All the kind of stuff nobody ever finds
Headlines in the paper: "killed by rock n' roll"

Can you take it?
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HELPFUL TIPS:

After the last “Can you take it”, the first riff is played for the remainder of the 
song... endlessly.

The pre-verse and verse riff sound like there is a second guitar playing the same thing, 
but an octave higher.

*When this riff starts, It sounds like the 6th fret chord is played five times, and the 
4th fret chord is played eight times... It's just a really weird pattern.

**The three empty dashes symbolize the break before playing. This is where the lyrics 
would be.

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
| '  Symbolizes the separation of certain notes (i.e.--playing the 3rd, then 1st fret of 
the same string won't look like playing the 31st fret)