Well-dressed bass tab by Hop Along

• Key: Ab
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Verse 1: (tacet)

Well-dressed, but walking in the wrong direction
Louisiana, my disordered road always led straight back into you
"Ha ha ha" goes the train
I wanted to leave but here I am again, Louisiana!
I don't remember
I don't remember ever shaking hands with you-know-who

Verse 2:

When I was alive,

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  I              lived despite the law, now  the law has

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 buried   me     many
many    times               it's built a

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freeway           all around   my bed
I      saw it   once

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  open its      great mouth        wide                        But

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  it was so full of afflicted     houses and buildings,

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  I can't rememember what it was  saying

Verse 3:

Well-

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dressed
well
some of us are, that is, the ones who know

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 how
that is
some      of  us  are, that is, the ones who know

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 how, that is, that is, that is, that is                 I read

Bridge: (modulation to B major)

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about you, then came home to find my mother         starin deep in-

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 to           the dark, dark       we-e-e-e-eb         she started

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 beggin me          not        to give   my         so-   cial  se-

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  curity number       to       anybody else       there goes the

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 sound    of the freeway-        ay

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 Ha- ha- ha- ha- ha      goes       the train

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 Ha- ha- ha- ha- ha      goes       the train
well-

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    dressed
but         walk-    in ah
walk-

     *pre-bend 11th fret()
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  in  oh
i don't wanna go     back
go

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 back


Refrain:

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 Doo              doo doo-doo doo-doo              doo doo-doo doo-

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 doo                     doo doo  doo doo doo

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 Doo              doo doo-doo doo-doo              doo doo-doo doo-

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 doo                     doo doo  doo doo doo

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  etc.

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| h   Hammer-on
| p   Pull-off
| /   Slide up
| \   Slide down

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