Nirvana – About a Girl
Tuning:Eb
Intro: Em G
Em G Em G
I need an easy friend
Em G Em G
I do with a hand to lend
Em G Em G
I do think you fit this shoe
Em G Em G
I do want you to have a clue
C# G# F#
Take advantage while
C# G# F#
You hang me out to dry
E A C
But I can’t see you every night
Em G Em G
Free
Em G Em G
I do
Em G Em G
I’m standing in your lane
Em G Em G
I do hope you have the time
Em G Em G
I do pick a number two
Em G Em G
I do keep a date with you
C# G# F#
Take advantage while
C# G# F#
You hang me out to dry
E A C
But I can’t see you every night
Em G Em G
Free
Em G Em G
I do
C# G# F#
C# G# F#
E A C
Em G Em G
Em G Em G
Em G Em G
I need an easy friend
Em G Em G
I do with a hand to lend
Em G Em G
I do think you fit this shoe
Em G Em G
I do want you to have a clue
C# G# F#
Take advantage while
C# G# F#
You hang me out to dry
E A C
But I can’t see you every night
E A C
But I can’t see you every night
Em G Em G
Free
Em G Em G
I do
Em G Em G
I do
Em G Em G
I do
Em G
I do
Nirvana – come as you are
Tuning:Eb
Intro: F#m E(4x)
F#5 A F#5
Come as you are, as you were
F#5 A
As I want you to be
F#5 A
As a friend, as a friend
F#5 A
There's an old enemy
F#5 A
Take your time, hurry up
F#5 A
The choice is yours don't be late
F#5 A
Take a rest, as a friend,
A F#5 A
As an old memoria, yeah
A#5 A
Memoria, yeah (3x)
F#5 A F#5
Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach
F#5 A
As I want you to be
A F#5
There's a trend, there's a friend
A F#5 A
There's an old memory, yeah
F#5 A
Memoria Yeah (3x)
Chorus:
B D B D
I swear that I don't have a gun
B D
No I don't have a gun (2x)
Ad lib: F#m E (10x)
F#5 A
Memoria yeah (4x)
(Repeat Chorus)
Title : JESUS DON'T WANT ME FOR A SUNBEAM
Tuning:Eb
Intro: E-D-A-; (2x)
E D A
Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
E D A
Sunbeams are never made like me
E D A
Don't expect me to cry, for all the reasons you had to die
E D A
Don't ever ask your love of me
Chorus:
E D
Don't expect me to cry,
E D
Don't expect me to lie,
E D
Don't expect me to die,
A
for thee
(Repeat 1st stanza)
(Repeat chorus)
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD
Tuning:Eb
INTRO: Riff
A
We passed upon the stair
Dm(D5)N
We spoke of was and when
A
Although I wasn’t there
F
He said I was his friend
C
Which came as some surprise
A
I spoke into his eyes
Dm
I thought you died alone
C C
A long long time ago
CHORUS 1:
C F
Oh no not me
Bb F
I never lost control
C F
You're face to face
Bb
With the man who sold the world
BREAK: Riff
A
I laughed and shook his hand
Dm
And made my way back home
A
I searched for form and land
F
For years and years I roamed
C
I gazed a gazely stare
A
At all the millions here
Dm
We must have died alone
C C
A long long time ago
CHORUS 2:
C F
Who knows, Not me
Bb F
We never lost control
C F
You're face to face
Bb
With the man who sold the world
BREAK: Riff
CHORUS 3:
C F
Who knows, Not me
Bb F
We never lost control
C F
You're face to face
Bb A
With the man who sold the world
Pennyroyal Tea
Tuning:Eb
Am G
Im on my time with everyone
Am G
I have very bad posture
C D A#
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
C D A#
Distil the life that’s inside of me
C D A#
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
C D A#
Im anaemic royalty
Am G
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
Am G
So I can sigh eternally
C D A#
Im so tired I cant sleep
C D A#
Im a liar and a thief
C D A#
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
C D A#
Im anaemic royalty
Am G
Im on warm milk and laxatives
Am G
Cherry-flavoured antacids
(End on Am)
Nirvana – Dumb
Tuning:Eb
E5 A5 G5 C5 E5
I'm not like thE5 But I can pretend
A5 G5 C5 E5
The sun is gone But I have a light
A5 G5 C5 E5
The day is done But I'm having fun
A5 G5 C5 E5 G5
I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 A5 G5 C5 E5
my heart is broke But I have some glue
A5 G5 C5 E5
help me inhale And mend it with you
A5 G5 C5 E5
We'll float around And hang out on clouds
A5 G5 C5 E5 G5
Then we'll come down And have a hangover...
E5 G5
Have a hangover
E5 G5
Have a hangover
E5 G5
Have a hangover
B5 C5
Skin the sun Fall asleep
B5 C5
Wish away soul is cheap
B5 C5
Lesson learned Wish me luck
B5 C5
Soothe the burn Wake me up
E5 A5 G5 C5 E5
I'm not like thE5 But I can pretend
A5 G5 C5 E5
The sun is gone But I have a light
A5 G5 C5 E5
The day is done But I'm having fun
A5 G5 C5 E5 G5
I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 G5
Think I'm just happy
E5 A5 G5 C5 E5
I think I'm dumb I think I'm dumb
A5 G5 C5 E5
I think I'm dumb I think I'm dumb
A5 G5 C5 E5
I think I'm dumb I think I'm dumb
A5 G5 C5 E5
I think I'm dumb I think I'm dumb
Nirvana – Polly
Tuning:Eb
Em-G D C
Polly wants a cracker
Em-G D C
Think I should get off of her first
Em-G D C
I think she wants some water
Em-G D C
To put out the blow torch
Chorus:
D C G
It isn't me
Bb D
We have some seed
C G
Let me clip
Bb D
Your dirty wings
D C G
Let me take a ride
Bb D
Don't hurt yourself
C G
I want some help
Bb D
To please myself
D C G
I've got some rope
Bb D
You have been told
C G
I promise you
Bb D
I have been true
D C G
Let me take a ride
Bb D
Don't hurt yourself
C G
I want some help
Bb D
To please myself
Em-G D C
Polly wants a cracker
Em G D C
Maybe she would like more food
Em G D C
She asks me to untie her
Em-G D C
A chase would be nice for a few
Em-G D C
Polly says her back hurts
Em G D C
And she's just as bored as me
Em G D C
She caught me off my guard
Em G D C
It amazes me, the will of instinct
(chorus)
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Nirvana – On a Plain
Tuning: Eb
D F
I'll start this off
Em D
Without any words
G F
I got so high that
Em D
I scratched 'til I bled
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em D
So what should I do?
G F
The finest day
Em D
That I ever had
G F
Was when I learned
Em D
To cry on command
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em D
So what should I do?
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D G F
My mother died
Em D
Every night
G F
It's safe to say
Em D
Don't quote me on that
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em D
So what should I do?
G F
The black sheep got
Em D
Blackmailed again
G F
Forgot to put
Em D
On the zip code
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em D
So what should I do?
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
F E A-G-F
Somewhere I have heard this before
E A-G-
In a dream my memory has stored
F E A-G
As defence I'm neutered and spayed
F E A-G
What the hell am I trying to say?
D F
It is now time
Em D
To make it unclear
D F
To write off lines
Em D
That don't make a sense
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em
So what should I do?
D F
One more special
Em D
Message to go
G F
And then I'm done
Em D
And I can go home
C Bm
Love myself
A D
Better than you
G F
I know it's wrong
Em
So what should I do?
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
D-G-F
I'm on a plain
D-G-F
I can't complain
Title : SOMETHING IN THE WAY
TUNING:Eb
Intro: F#5-D5---; (2x)
F#5 D5
Underneath the bridge
F#5 D5
The tarp has sprung a leak
F#5 D5
And the animals i´ve trapped
F#5 D5
Have All become my pets
F#5 D5
And Im living off grass
F#5 D5
And the drippings from the ceiling
F#5 D5
its O.K. eat fish
F#5 D5
Cause they don't have any feelings
Chorus:
F#5 D5
Something in the way
F#5 D5
Mmmm......
F#5 D5
Something in the way
F#5 D5
Mmmm......
F#5 D5
Underneath the bridge
F#5 D5
The tarp has sprung a leak
F#5 D5
And the animals i´ve trapped
F#5 D5
Have All become my pets
F#5 D5
And Im living off grass
F#5 D5
And the drippings from the ceiling
F#5 D5
its O.K. eat fish
F#5 D5
Cause they don't have any feelings
Chorus:
F#5 D5
Something in the way
F#5 D5
Mmmm......
F#5 D5
Something in the way
F#5 D5
Mmmm......
F#5 D5
Mmm ........
Nirvana – plateau
Tuning:Eb
Intro:riff
G Bb Fsus2
Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
G Bb Fsus2
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
G Bb Fsus2
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
G Bb Fsus2
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands
G#
G Bb Fsus2
The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
G Bb Fsus2
And an illustrated book about birds
G Bb Fsus2
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
G Bb Fsus2
Who needs action when you got words
riff
G Bb Fsus2
When you've finished with the mop then you can stop
G Bb Fsus2
And look at what you've done
G Bb Fsus2
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen
G Bb Fsus2
And the work it was fun
G Bb Fsus2
The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
G Bb Fsus2
And an illustrated book about birds
G Bb Fsus2
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
G Bb Fsus2
Who needs action when you got words
riff
G Bb Fsus2
Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
G Bb Fsus2
Some said it was in Greenland and some say Mexico
G Bb Fsus2
Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
G Bb Fsus2
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
Title : OH ME
Tuning:Eb
Intro : E-D-C-E-;
E
if i had to lose a mile
D
if i had to touch feelings
C
i would lose my soul
E
the way i do
E
i don't have to think
D
i only have to do it
C
the results are always perfect
E
and that's old news
Refrain :
E
would you like to hear my voice
C
sweetened with emotion
D E
invented at your birth?
Chorus:
G E G E
i can't see the end of me
G E G E
my whole expanse i cannot see
C
i formulate infinity
D E
and store it deep inside of me
Adlib: E-C-D-C-E-
E
if i had to lose a mile
D
if i had to touch feelings
C
i would lose my soul
E
the way i do
(Repeat 2nd stanza)
(Repeat Refrain)
(Repeat Chorus)
Coda:
C
i formulate infinity
D E
and store it deep inside of me
Nirvana – lake of fire
Tuning:Eb
[Intro]
Gm F5 Bb Gm C~ Bb G5 F5 Bb
C F5 G5 F5 Gm G5
G5 F5 Bb5
Where do bad folks go when they die
G5 C~ Bb5
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
G5 F5 Bb5
Go to a lake of fire and fry
C5 F5 G5
See 'em again till the Fourth of July
F5 Bb5 G5 F5 G5
Dm Bb/F
I knew a lady Came from Duluth
D5 Dm
Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
Dm Bb/F
She went to her grave just a little too soon
C5/G D5/A Dm
Flew and laid down on the yellow moon
G5 F5 Bb5
Where do bad folks go when they die
G5 C~ Bb5
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
G5 F5 Bb5
Go to a lake of fire and fry
C5 F5 G5
See 'em again till the Fourth of July
Dm Bb/F
I knew a lady Came from Duluth
D5 Dm
Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
Dm Bb/F
She went to her grave just a little too soon
C5/G D5/A Dm
Flew and laid down on the yellow moon
F5 Bb5 G5 F5 G5
Dm Bb/F
People cry People moan
D5 Dm
Look for a dry place to call their home
Dm Bb/F
Try to find some place to rest their bones
C5/G D5/A Dm
While the angels and the devils try to make their own
G5 F5 Bb5
Where do bad folks go when they die
G5 C~ Bb5
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
G5 F5 Bb5
Go to a lake of fire and fry
C5 F5 G5
See 'em again till the Fourth of July
F5 Bb5 G5 F5 G5
Nirvana – all apologies
Tuning:Eb – Drop D
[D] x4
[D]What else should I be all apologies
[D]What else should I say; everyone is gay
[D]What else could I write; I don't have the right
[D]What else should I be; all apologies
[G5]In the sun, in the sun I feel as one
[G5]In the sun, in the sun I'm [A]married
[A]Burried (yah, yah, yah, yeah)
[D]I wish I was like you; easily amused
[D]Find my nest of salt; everything’s my fault
[D]I'll take all the blame; aqua seafoam shame
[D]Sunburn with freezer burn
[D]Choking on the ashes of her enemies
[G5]In the sun, in the sun I feel as one
[G5]In the sun, in the sun I'm [A]married
[A]Burried (yah, yah, yah, yeah)
[A]Married, [A]Burried (yah, yah, yah, yeah)
[D]All in all is all we are
[D]All in all is all we are
[D]All in all is all we are
[D]All in all is all we are
where_did_you_sleep_last_night
tuning:Eb
Em Am G B7
Em Am G
My girl, my girl don't lie to me
B7 Em
Tell me where did you sleep last night?
Em Am G
In the palace, in the palace where the sun don't ever shine
B7 Em
I'll shiver the whole night through
Em Am G
My girl, my girl, where will you go
B7 Em
I'm going where the cold wind blows
Em
In the pines, in the pines
Am G
Where the sun don't ever shine
B7 Em
I would shiver the whole night through
Em Am G
Her husband, was a hard working man
B7 Em
Just about a mile from here
Em Am G
His head was found in a driving wheel
B7 Em
But his body never was found
Em Am G
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
B7 Em
Tell me where did you sleep last night
Em
In the pines, in the pines
Am G
Where the sun don't ever shine
B7 Em
I would shiver the whole night through
Em Am G
My girl, my girl, where will you go
B7 Em
I'm going where the cold wind blows
Em Am G
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
B7 Em
Tell me where did you sleep last night
Em
In the pines, in the pines
Am G
Where the sun don't ever shine
B7 Em
I would shiver the whole night through
