'HEADSTRONG'
SEVEN MARY THREE from the album "AMERICAN STANDARD"
Transcribed by Jason Leonard
Chords:
Em D* Cmaj7sus2 C5 G/B A9 G5 B5 A5 F5
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----- ----- --0-- ----- --0-- --0-- ----- ----- ----- -----
----- ----- --0-- --5-- --0-- --0-- --4-- --8-- --6-- --3--
--2-- --4-- --0-- --5-- --0-- --2-- --5-- --9-- --7-- --4--
--2-- --5-- --3-- --3-- --2-- --0-- --5-- --9-- --7-- --4--
--0-- --5-- ----- ----- ----- ----- --3-- --7-- --5-- --2--
Intro:
Drum & Bass intro: 0:00- 0:06
Bass plays:
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---7------|--5-------|-----7----|---5------|
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Guitar enters: 0:07- 0:20
Rhy. Fig. 1
Em D*
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----------|----------| * Play 4 times *
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---2-2----|--4-4-----|
---2-2---0|--5-5----0|
-0--------|0---------|
Rocking part: 0:21- 0:34
Rhy. Fig. 2
Em D*
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---------------|---------------| * Play 4 times *
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2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4|
2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
0:35- 0:41
Cmaj7sus2
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-0--------| * Hold, let it ring & feedback *
-0--------|
-0--------|
-3--------|
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0:42- 0:48
E5
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----------| * Hold, let ring & feedback *
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-2--------|
-2--------|
-0--------|
0:49- 1:23
Verse:
Play with Rhy. Fig. 1
Em D* Em D*
Headstrong is willing to live like a rat in a hole
Em D* Em D*
Headstrong... unwilling to listen to anyone at all keeps her
Em D* Em D*
head above the water, keeps her head upon her shoulders
Em D* Em D*
I know, I know, I know she has heard this all before
C5
she don't break, she don't sink, don't think, a thing of me
1:24- 1:37
Rhy. Fig. 2
Em D*
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---------------|---------------| * Play 4 times *
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2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4|
2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
1:38- 2:07
Chorus:
Guitar 1 Plays Rhy. Fig. 1 & Guitar 2 plays Rhy. Fig. 2
Em D Em D
Headstrong can fake an awkwardness, silenced by the price of love
Em D Em D
don't get too close in case, push comes to shove, won't
Cmaj7sus2 G/B
be your favorite girl, hear you play her song
A9 G5 (slide up to C5)
she's heard it all before
2:08- 2:35
Bridge:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/seven_mary_three/headstrong_crd.html ]
C5 B5 C5 B5
I don't mind she knows the number I'm writing
C5 B5 A5 G5
we all need some pain
C5 B5 C5 B5 C5 B5 A5 G5
and remember, what you told me, we all bleed the same
2:36- 2:58
Guitar solo:
Lead guitar solo:
C5 B5 C5 B5
15-14------------|-------17--17|15-14--------------|---------------|
-----15--15~17-15|~--------15--|-----15----17-15-17|17`-17`-17`-17`|
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C5 B5 A5 G5
15-14-------------|-------------------|-----------|---------|
-----15---15~17-15|-12-12-13---12-10-8|----8------|---------|
------------------|-------------------|-9`--`9-9-7|----7----|
------------------|-------------------|-----------|-9`--97-7|
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F5 E
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-----7----|---------------------------|
-7~9---9--|---------------------------|
---------7|-7-(hold till bass enters)-|
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2:59- 3:13
Bass Entrance:
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-----------------|-----------------| * Repeat 4 times *
7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|7-5---5-7-5---7--|
-----------------|----7-------7----|
3:14- 3:40
Verse:
Rhy. Fig. 1
Em D* Em D*
headstrong is making a list so long, of all the people she has done,
Em D* Em D*
and undone again, my name engraved
Em D* Em D*
she doesn't notice the things that I take for granted were my
Em D* Em D*
own to give, my own to give and take she don't
3:41- 3:54
Cmaj7sus2
break, she don't sink, don't think
don't want to give or take my love
don't break don't sink don't think, of me!
3:55- end
Guitar 1 plays Rhy. Fig. 1 & Guitar 2 plays Rhy. Fig 2. until end.
E D E D E D E D
E D E D E D E D
Headstrong Headstrong Headstrong Headstrong
E D E D E D E D E (let ring)
Headstrong Headstrong Headstrong Headstrong Ow!
(c)1998 Seven Mary Three Music, BMI. All rights reserved.
Administered by EMI Publishing. Lyrics reprinted by permission
