Gun Club: "Bad America" (from the "Las Vegas Story" album)


intro:  starting with guitar only, the band comes in on F#

D#m7                              D#m6 D#m  F#            F#+9              F#9(2)  F#
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-7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7---7---2--2-2-2--2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-----2-
-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6---8---3--3-3-3--3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---3-----3-
-8--8-8-8-8-8-8-8--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--8---8---4--4-4-4--4---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-----2-
-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6---6---4--4-4-4--4---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4---4-----4-
-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6---6---2--2-2-2--2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-----2-

repeat complete intro once and continue like this on the first four lines of the two first verses

D#m7                 D#m6 D#m F#                    F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
I thought I heard you  .....  in my room last night
D#m7              D#m6 D#m F#                     F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
lonely lemur calls  .....  in my walls last night
D#m7                D#m6 D#m F#                        F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
when I was all alone  .....  in the palm drunken night
D#m7                D#m6 D#m F#                      F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
when I was all alone  .....  bejeweled in the night
G#                          F#
pulsing we are hearts, but bleeding unlike diamonds
G#                       F#
tying up ourselves, but bleeding unlike diamonds


              G#   A   B
    And it's bad,
    F#        F#+9        G#  A  B
    but it is Bad America
    F#    F#+9  
    under the western sky...


guitar solo over 2x D#m  F#


I looked up another thousand times, you colored my world violence
you made me warm when you hit me with a nail in my arm
I was all alone, I could have died there
I was all alone and I did not care
but for a burning second of red love in the dark
but for my burning hands grasping in the dark


    And it's bad,
    but it is Bad America
    under the western sky


guitar solo over 2x D#m  F#


D#m                        F#

And there's girl breath up and down my spine
D#m                       F#

but that was a river ago, I knew you'd come in time
D#m7            D#m6 D#m F#                     F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
I was all alone,  .....  though it was a sea ago
D#m7           D#m6 D#m  F#               F#+9  F#9(2)  F#
I was all alone  .....  and where did you go
G#                             F#
and there's vein-like children on the waterfront
G#                  F#
smack-rotting faces on the waterfront


    And it's bad,
    but it is Bad America
    under the western sky


guitar solo over 4x D#m  F#


And there's vein-like children on the waterfront
smack-rotting faces on the waterfront


              G#   A   B
    And it's bad,
    F#        F#+9        G#  A  B
    but it is Bad America
    F#    F#+9           G#  A  B 
    under the western sky
    F#    F#+9        G#  A  B
    it is Bad America
    F#  F#+9

    ...well, alright

 


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