Ballad Of Fuck All

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             BALAD  OF FUCK ALL - Malcolm Middleton
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Tabbed by: Scott Anderson
Capo: 2nd fret

Tuning: EADGBE

Relative to capo

INTRO:

Use thumb for the bass notes and alternate index and middle fingers for the higher notes.
Picking pattern continues throughout the song. Chords aren't in the right place
but you can work it out.
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-----------1-------1-------1-------1-------1-------1-------1-------1-------| 
G|-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-----------| 
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 

E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-----------1-------1-------1-------1-------0-------0-------0-------0-------| 
G|-------2-------2-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-----------| 
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-----3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------------------------------------| 
E|-------------------------------------3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---------| 

Oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh, oh oh (etc)

Am              F       C
Oh will you come home soon
F       C       G
Come home soon and save me
Am
I'm so bored
F       C
Soul destroying gloom
F       C       G               G
The walls are closing in all around

Oh will you find me now
Find me out and show me
I can't get up
Life threatening doom
Dragging me darker and down

BDA K:
Something like this

G       F#      Em
G       Am      Em
x 4
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|     
B|--------3-------3-------0-------0-------3-------3-------0-------0------|     
G|----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0----------|     
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|     
A|------------------------------------------0---0------------------------|     
E|--3---3---2---2---0---0---0---0---3---3-----------0---0---0---0--------| x 4 

CHORUS:

F/C     C       G
Take my hand
Dragging me down
F/C     C       G
Through the ground
Darker and down
Down down down
All the way down

INTRO

Am              F       C
Oh wont you come for me
F       C       G
Comfort me in the night
Am              F       C
I'm so tired of feeling sick and tired
F       C       G
Dying at life's door all the time

Oh I'm locked inside
Trapped inside this body
I can't get out
And there's not enough room
I'm glued to the back of this bone mask

BDA K

CHORUS

INTRO


That's roughly how it goes, it's played finger style so just experiment.


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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend
| pb  Pre-bend
| br  Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend