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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:23:43 -0300
From: Patrick Thomas
Subject: Tab "Black Coffee On The Table" Artist "Less Than Jake"
Artist: Less Than Jake
Song: Black Coffee On The Table
Album: Pezcore
Tabbed by Patrick Thomas
E-mail:pathomas@videotron.ca
It's a pretty easy 5 chord punk song. Listen to the song for the exact
picking.
Chords:
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/less-than-jake/10441.html ]
A5 F#5 D5 E5 C#5
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|----------------------------------|
|-----------------7------9------6--|
|-7-------4-------7------9------6--|
|-7-------4-------5------7------4--|
|-5-------2------------------------|
Intro:
A5-F#5-D5
Verse:
A5-F#5-D5
If Only.....
Pre-Chorus
F#5-D5-E5-D5
And I Watch The Steam....
The "Ohhhhh" chorus has a particular picking but the riff is as followed
A5-F#5(pause)
F#5-D5-C#5
Play in this Order...
-Intro(x2)
-Verse(x4)
-Pre-Chorus(x4)
-Chorus(x2)
-Verse(x8)
-Pre-Chorus(x4)
-Chorus(x2)
-Verse(x4)
-Bass Part
-The two last chords of Pre-Chorus
-Chorus(x2)
-Verse(x4)
Lyrics:
Verse
If only my problems were like water
they could be boiled away
and watching the steam drift upward,
watching my problems drift away.
Pre-Chorus:
And watch the steam turn and twist,
watch it all drift away.
Look how it rises and lifts
watch my problems drift away.
Chorus:
Ohh ohhh ohhh