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 Subject: TAB: Heroin - Velvet Underground
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 VELVET UNDERGROUND
 Heroin
 riff 1:
   D             G             D             G
 |-2-------2---2-|-3-------3-----|-2-----3-2---2-|-3-------3---0-|
 |-3-----3---3---|-0-----0---0---|-3---------3---|-0-----0---0---|
 |-2---2---------|-0---0---------|-2---2---------|-0---0---------|
 |-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|
 |---------------|-2-------------|---------------|-2-------------|
 |---------------|-3-------------|---------------|-3-------------|
  
 riff 2:
 |-2----7----9---7----|
 |-3----8----10--8----|        listen to the song to get the timing for
 |-2----7----9---7----|        this part - it isn't broken up into bars
 |-0------------------|        here.
 |--------------------|
 |--------------------|
  
 riff 1 2X
  
 D   G       D    G     D         G       D       G
    I  don't know  just where I'm going
     D        G         D           G            D<---- end of riff 1, strum
 But    I'm       gonna try for the kingdom if I can    this chord, and the
                 G               D                      rest of the chords
 Cos it makes me feel like I'm a man
              G             D
 When I put a spike into my vein
               G                       D
 And I tell ya things aren't quite the same          when you hit the word
          G             D                            "know" at the end of the
 When I'm rushing on my run                        verse, the D chord marks the
       G                     D                    beginning of riff 1 again,
 And I feel just like Jesus' son                 which contintues until the
       G                       D                 "nullify" in the next verse.
 And I guess that I just don't know              this pattern continues thru
       G                        D      G     D       G      the whole song.
 And I guess that I just don't know
  
  
 D     G        D   G         D         G     D
 I         have made a  big decision
 D     G        D    G          D
 I'm      gonna try     to nullify my life
              G               D
 Cos when the blood begins to flow
        G                       D
 And it shoots up the dropper's neck
          G             D
 When I'm closing in on death
  
  
 riff2 2X
  
           G               D
 You can't help me not you guys
                   G                         D
 Oh, all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
         G             D
 You can all go take a walk
       G                       D
 And I guess that I just don't know
       G                       D      G      D      G
 And I guess that I just don't know
  
  
 D    G      D      G        D               G        D      G
 I       wish that    I was born a thousand years ago
 D    G      D      G                    D
 I       wish that    I'd sailed the darkened seas
      G                 D
 On a great big clipper ship
            G                 D
 Going from this land here to that
          G                 D
 Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap
  
 riff2 2X
  
      G            D
 Away from the big city
         G              D
 Where a man can not be free
            G             D
 Of all the evils of this town
           G               D
 And of himself and those around
           G                       D
 Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
           G                       D      G     D      G
 Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
  
  
 D   G   D   G            D           G       D      G
 Her_____oin,   it'll be the death of me
 D   G   D   G       D               G
 Her_____oin,   it's my wife, and it's my life
           G              D
 Because a mainline in my vein
            G            D
 Leads to a center in my head
              G             D
 And then I'm better off as dead
  
  
 riff2 4X
  
              G               D
 Cos when the smack begins to flow
       G                    D
 Oh, I really don't care anymore
               G                D
 'Bout all the jim-jims in this town
                 G                    D
 And all the politicians making crazy sounds
               G                      D
 And everybody puttin' everybody else down
                  G                  D
 And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam
  
 riff 2  4x
              G               D
 Cos when the smack begins to flow
       G                    D
 And I really don't care anymore
  
 riff 2  2x
               G           D
 When that heroin is in my blood
         G              D
 And the blood is in my head
              G                       D
 Then I thank God that I'm as good as dead
                G                 D
 And thank your God that I'm not aware
           G                     D
 And thank God that I just don't care
       G                       D
 And I guess that I just don't know
       G                       D      G       D        G
 And I guess that I just don't know
  
 riff1 2X
  
 F arpeggio