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ave f blues (down through the avenue) (savage), from _mercurotones_

transcribed by marcel roy <MarcelRoy@yahoo.com>
Thanks to Ray Holm for corrections to the lyrics.

Notes:
Listen to the CD to get the feel for the rhythm, 'cause it's really not 
tabbed out very explicitly here.
MAIN RIFF: slashes and backslashes indicated notes you should slide up/down 
to with your fretting finger, and the "^" character means hammer on the open 
strings.
VERSES: at least one guitar plays a palm-muted version of the main riff 
rather than straight E5 and A5 chords.  
CHORUS: use the E5 based on the A string, 7th fret most of the time (the very 
last time, open E5, A5, and D5 chords seem to sound appropriate).  There's 
also some passing notes between chords that I'm really not sure of but I 
indicated anyway; play whatever you think sounds most correct.  Also, for the 
longest time I thought they modulated (changing the key to B) during the 
second half of each chorus, but it might be just the vocals instead of the 
guitars (or maybe I was just hearing things).

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(drums start the song, then intro/main riff)

   E5    F7/E  A5    B7/A  E5    F7/E  G A5   G A5
e|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------|
B|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------|
G|-----------|-2-2-2/4\2-|-----------|-0^2-2--0^2-2-|
D|-2-2-2/4\2-|-2-2-2/4\2-|-2-2-2/4\2-|-0^2-2--0^2-2-|
A|-2-2-2/4\2-|-0-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2/4\2-|---0-0----0-0-|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-|-----------|-0-0-0-0-0-|--------------|

(repeat once, then first verse)

E5                              A5
i was speeding down through the avenue
with greasy hair,           i'm flat out of cash
i've been awake four days or at least two, three
so i decided for me to crash 

(interlude)

D5/A.... A5   (bend single notes as appropriate)

(second verse, as before)

well, i walked through the door, my friend chris was watchin' 
a tv show about some small town 
where the dancers get cancers just from drinkin' the water
we turned it off and we walked out 

(chorus riff; repeat 4x)

   E5          D5              A5
e|-----------------|-------------|
B|-----------------|-------------|
G|-9-9----------7--|-------------|
D|-9-9----------7--|-----------7-|
A|-7-7----------5--|-----------7-|
E|---------7/8-----|---2/3-----5-|
 
(chorus lyrics, with chord names from chorus riff shown)

     E5  E5                 D5                  A5
     sitting     in   the   park,       getting high, watching girls go by
i forget that     people    see when we use the phones 
     you're still wonderin' why                 i     got the moon in my eyes
i'm not telling lies,        i'm just trying to lose,
these avenue f blues 

(2x main riff)

(third verse, as before)

and i was late for a cocaine date
with a girl i knew pretty well 
she had a perfect smile and she promised me dinner
if i promised to spend the night, all right! 

(second chorus:  no words, but a harmonica solo... it's probably in A, but 
your guess is better than mine for how to play it)

(outro)

D5/A
avenue . . . 
A5       E5
avenue f blues.