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My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
The Mothers of Invention
Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
An instant classic
Chords Used Throughout:
G5 F5 Cm Dm
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------5--7--|
|-5--3--5--7--|
|-5--3--3--5--|
|-3--1--------|
Intro:
G5 F5
You know your mama and your daddy
G5 F5
Sayin' I'm no good for you
G5 F5
They call me dirty from the alley
G5 F5
Till I don't know what to do
Cm
I get so tired of sneakin' around
Cm Cm (slide down to nowhere)
Just to get to your back door
Dm
I crawled past the garbage
Dm
And your mama jumps out screamin'
Dm
Dont come back no more! (Slide down the low E string)
(I can't take it)
Riff A:
F A# F A# F A# F A# Fm
|---------|---------|---------|-------------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------------|
|-----3---|-----3---|-----3---|---------3---|
|-----3---|-----3---|-----3---|---------3-3-|
|-----1---|-----1---|-----1---|---------1-3-|
|-1-1---1-|-1-1---1-|-1-1---1-|-1-1-1-1---1-|
Riff A
My guitar wants to kill your mama
Riff A
My guitar wants to kill your mama
Cm
My guitar wants to burn your dad
Riff B:
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|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-8p5h8-8p5h8-|
Dm
I get real mean when it makes me mad
Guitar Break:
|---------------------------6-|
|-----------------------6h8---|
|-------------------7p5-------|
|-------5---5-8p5-8-----------|
|-8p5-8---8-------------------|
|-----------------------------|
(Repeat Chord Progression (G5 F5 Cm Dm))
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you werent there
(you just weren't there)
She told me don't bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
I get so tired of sneakin' around
Just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage
And your mama jumped out screamin'
Dont come back no more!
Fm
Synthesizer Solo
A#
Saxophone Solo
G#
Guitar Solo (Sorry, I don't know it)
(Repeat Chord Progression (G5 F5 Cm Dm))
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you werent there
She told me don't bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
I get so tired of sneakin' around
Just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage
And your mama jumped out screamin'
Dont come back no more!
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad
I don't know all of the final solo but i know it starts like this and that the solo is
with the G form of the pentatonic's base note at the 3rd fret on the low e.
|---------------------------|-------------------|----------------------|
|-----------------------6h8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-6---8-6---8-6---8-6--|
|-------------------7p5-----|-------------------|---7-----7-----7-----7|
|-------5---5-8p5-8---------|-------------------|----------------------|
|-8p5-8---8-----------------|-------------------|----------------------|
|---------------------------|-------------------|----------------------|
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|---------|
|-5b7r5-3-|
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|---------| You're on your own, improvise man!
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