This Is Not Hell Chords & Tabs
"This is Not Hell" by Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Guitar tab by Astrocreep71
I'm fairly certain that this is on Pushing the Salmonella Envelope, but may also be on
earlier LP or EP. I am tabbing the album version, but was inspired by this video on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRQVjqahI0&feature=related.
Easy song. Three parts. Slight variations for dynamics.
Part A: Part A fill:
e|-------------------------|------------------|
b|-3---------------------5-|-3----------------|
g|---4---3---------5---4---|---4---3----------|
d|-----5---4-----4---3-----|-----5---4---*----|
a|-----------5-3-----------|-----------5-3----|
e|-------------------------|------------------|
Part B:
e|--------------------------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------------------------|
g|--------------------------------------------------|
d|-------------------------------------7-7-7-7-7-7--|
a|-5-5-5-8-8-8-5-5-5-8-8-8-5-5-5-8-8-8--------------|
e|-3-3-3-6-6-6-3-3-3-6-6-6-3-3-3-6-6-6--------------|
Part C:1
e|-----------------------------------|
b|-----------------------------------|
g|-4-4-4-4---------------------------|
d|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2---|
a|-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2---|
e|---------2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0---|
Part C:2
e|-----------------------------------------------|
b|-----------------------------------------------|
g|-----------------------------------------------|
d|-------*-----------*-----------*-----------*---|
a|-5-5-5-5-----2-2-2-2-----5-5-5-5-----2-2-2-2---|
e|-3-3-3-3-----0-0-0-0-----3-3-3-3-----0-0-0-0---|
* indicates stop
That's it, hope you like it. I will put the lyrics below, and after that, I will explain
variations on the youtube video. All comments and corrections welcome.
If this is hell well that's fine with me
All the wonder presumable happily
Eager to follow the fool that's got into
The head of me we don't have any doubt
We're out there making friends
Unconsciously rolling through
Meanings from pollings
The answers are meaner sometimes
Than the means to our ends
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jimmies_chicken_shack/this_is_not_hell_tab_ver_2.html ]
so this is hell
what else could it be
bask of glories of glorified stories
of a basket case who just
broken himself from the weave
we are just not making sense
who really cares just how we feel
infantile ramblings of penniess gamblings
a fist full of hands swinging clubs
at our new baby zeal
yeah right
you think this is hell
would you care to bet
capture the beauty of domestic duty
the hampers are full and our
laundry's perpetually wet
think about traveling south
find the right something
you must have left
endless the road
wish your past to explode
actions remain base
but intentions in the treble clef
yeah right
this is not hell
this is purgatory
caught here in limbo
I.Q. of a dim bulb
how many gods does it take
to screw in the likes of me
you'd think one day I might learn
stare in the light and you cannot see
I've opened my doors of perception
and can't get them shut
now i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah now we're all fucked
this is not hell
this is purgatory
caught here in limbo
I.Q. of a dim bulb
how many gods does it take
to screw in the likes of me
you'd think one day I might learn
stare in the light and you cannot see
I've opened my doors of perception
and can't get them shut
now i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah now we're all fucked
this is not hell
this is purgatory
caught here in limbo
I.Q. of a dim bulb
how many gods does it take
to screw in the likes of me
you'd think one day I might learn
stare in the light and you cannot see
I've opened my doors of perception
and can't get them shut
now i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah i feel fucked for free
everyday yeah now we're all fucked
I left my brain inside my other head
you can't impress me don't depress me
don't supress just undressed
i left my brain inside my other head
the teachers test me my father blessed me
the pigs arrest me i get upset
I left my brain inside my other head
you can't impress me don't depress me
don't supress just undressed
the teachers test me my father blessed me
the pigs arrest me i get upset
There were two main differences I noticed in the live acoustic version on youtube from
album version. First is the Bb in part b. instead of this,
a|-8-| play this g|-3-|
e|-6-| d|-3-|
it's an inverted Bb5(the 5th is lower than the root).
The next variation I noticed was at the end of part B. Instead of playing the G on the
fret of the D string, He was playing it on the 15th fret of the low E.
That's it.
