Motorhead
by Ian Kilmister Eddie Clarke Phil Taylor
performed by Motorhead
from the albums: No Remorse, Best Of Motorhead, No sleep Til Hammersmith
One of the definitive Motorhead tunes by Lemmy and the boiz- was shocked it wasn't already in the data base!
Tuning: Standard (on the album) (Eb if you want to play along with the live version)
(These are power chords so actually D5 Eb5 E5 F#5 and G5)
D X Eb X E X F# X G X
X X X X X
7 8 9 11 12
7 8 9 11 12
5 6 7 9 10
X X X X X
Note that Lemmy's bass follows the root note for all the chords but he does a
little riff on the F# (sorry but you bass players will have to suss that out- it's
based on the A string between the 10th and tweflth frets but I haven't quite gotten
it sufficently to put down what I definitively think it is)
Intro: E/////////D//Eb//
Verse:
E D/E
Sunrise, wrong side of another day
E D/E
Sky high, six thousand miles away
E D/E
Don't know how long I been awake
E
Wound up in an amazin' state
(prechorus):
G D
And I can't enough
G D
And you know it's righteous stuff
G F#
goes up like prices at Christmas
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/motorhead/motorhead_crd.html ]
Chorus:
G D
Motorhead, remember me
G F#
Motorhead, all right!
E////////D//Eb//
Verse:
E D/E
Brained out, total amnesia
E D/E
Get some mental anaesthesia
E D/E
Don't move I'll shut the door an kill the lights
E
If I can be wrong I must be right
(prechorus)
G D
All good clean fun
G D
Have another stick of gum
G F#
Man you look better already!
Chorus:
G D
Motorhead, remember me
G F#
I'm Motorhead, Alright!
Solo break (built around the verse/prechorus/chorus pattern)
E/////////D//Eb//
E D/E
fourth day five day marathon
E D/E
We're moving like a parallelogram
E D/E
Don't move the morning's not a pretty sight
E
I guess I'll see you all on the ice
(prechorus)
G D
I should be tired
G D
But you know I'm fucking wired
G F#
ain't felt this good for an hour
Chorus:
G D
Motorhead, remember me
G F#
I'm Motorhead, alright!
the band continues to echo the "Motorhead" chorus for an outro adlibbing "yeah
yeah yeahs" etc to the final chainsaw guitar F# chord with all the glorious feedback
and bomber take off sound effects . . .
