* = fretted note play all strings marked "o", mute (or don't
@ = add for 4th play) strings marked "x"
% = add for 2nd
E oooooo A. oooooo A.. xooooo B. xooooo B.. oooooo C#m xooooo
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|||*|| |||||| 5||||*| 2|*|||| 7*||||| 4|*|||*
|**@|| ||***| |||*|| |||||| |||*|| ||||*|
|||||| ||||@| ||*@|| ||**|| |**||| ||**||
||%||| |||||| ||||||
||%|||
G#m oooooo F#m oooooo Bm4 xooooo
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4*||*** 2*||*** 2|*||||
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(see end for performance notes)
INTRO:
E E4 E
E E4 E E2 E
A A4 A2
A A4 A2 A
VERSE 1:
E E4 E
Look-in' at your watch at the ti-ime
E4 E E2 E
Waitin' in the sta-tion for the
A. A4 A2 A. A4 A2
Bus
E E4 E
Goin' to a place that's far, so
E4 E E2
Far away and if that's not
A. A4 A2 A. A4 A2
E-nough
BRIDGE 1:
B. A. G#m
Goin' where no-body says hi
C#m C#m Bm4 A.
No, they don't talk to no-one they don't know
VERSE 2:
You'll wind up in some fac-tor-y that's
Full time there'll be no-where left
To go
Walk home to an emp-ty house
Sit around al-l by
Your-self
BRIDGE 2:
B. A. G#m
I know it might sound strange, but I
C#m C#m Bm4 A.
Be-lieve you'll be coming back be-fore too long
CHORUS:
E F#m B..(or B.)
Don't go back to Rockvil-le
E F#m B..(or B.)
Don't go back to Rockvil-le
E F#m B..(or B.)
Don't go back to Rockvil-le
(Riff)
..... Waste another year...
VERSE 3:
At night I drink my-self to sleep and
Pre-tend I don't care that your not
Here with me
'Cause It's so much eas-ier to hand-le
All my problems if I sleep on
'Em you see
BRIDGE 3:
B. A. G#m
Some-thin' better hap-pen soon
C#m C#m Bm4 A.
It's gonna be too late to bring you back
-CHORUS-
REFRAIN (bar chords):
E A B A B
It's not as though I didn't ne-ed you
E A B A B
If you were here I'd only bleed you
F#m C#m
- But ever-y bod-y else in
F#m C#m Bm4
Town - only wants to bring you
A B. (Tacet 1 bar)
Down - That's not how it ought to be...
-BRIDGE 2-
-CHORUS- (then repeat)
Riff (play just ahead of the beat)
A.. - then tacet (drift off) N.C.
e |--0~-----------------------|-----------------------------------|
B |--5~-----------------------|-----------------------------------|
G |--6~-----------------------|-6/7--6-----------6--7--6----------|
D |--7~-----------------------|----------9---7-9-----------9--7-9-|
A |--0~-----------------------|-----------------------------------|
E |--0~-----------------------|-----------------------------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
...Waste another year
Performance Notes:
I play this with many open strings except in the REFRAIN, which is
really straight bar chords. The F#m in the chorus is probably a straight
F#m bar chord - Mike Mills plays the low F# on bass. BUT, I prefer to play
the following F#m7add4 chord (because it "jangles" and sounds fuller than
the bar chord):
F#m7+4 xooooo
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6|||*|| <-- These two notes slide up
||*||| <-- from the E chord...
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finger with your pinky --> |*||||
[If you use this chord, you will definitely want to play the "B.."]
In order to play this all on guitar (there is a piano in the
verses) you need to add notes to the E and A. chords - the E chord bounces
off-and-on an A note (the 4th) and an F# note (the 2nd) in the verse. The
A. does likewise with a D note (4th) and the open B string/note
(2nd).
This song is NOT that complicated. To start out, play the song
without all the 4th's, 2nd's, etc., and get a feel for it (stress the 2nd
and 4th beats). Then, play around with it until _YOU_ like the way that it
sounds.
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