Ice Cold Ice chords by Hüsker Dü

Chords with lyrics

Ice Cold Ice
by Husker Du
Track 5 on "Warehouse:
Songs and Stories" and
Track 5 on "The Living
End"

Tabbed by Ben Hollis

If you've heard this song
you will already know
that you need to use as
much gain/fuzz/whatever
as you've got. Don't
worry too much about
the tabbed bits in
the verses, the sludge
should cover them up.
All the chords are fifths,
let ring where
appropriate. At many
points in the song
you can play either
single notes or chords
depending upon what
you fancy. If you're
playing as a band
the bassist can play the
root and the guitarist
the fifth if you want to
be lazy.
I've tabbed this in
normal tuning, but drop D MajorD
may make it (even) easier.

If you want to do an
acoustic (!) version of
this the full chords are
Am, Bbmaj, Cmaj, Dm,
Fmaj, Gmaj, instead of
fifths

Intro (half speed)

   A5A5                G5G5

D--7-7-7-------------------5-5-5
A--7-7-7-----5-7-8-------5-5-5 (x4)
E--5-5-5-------------8----3-3-3

Tempo increase

  G5G5  F5F5 G5G5 A5A5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5

D--5-5--3--5---7---5--3---5
A--5-5--3--5---7---5--3---5 (x3)
E--3-3--1--3---5---3--1---3

G5G5 (pick scrape)

Verse

   D5D5

B----------------6-5----------------
G--7-7-7------------7-5-----5----
D--7-7-7------------------7--------(x4)
A--5-5-5----------------------------
E-------------------------------------

Pre-Chorus

   F5F5
 (bass play root, guitar fifth)

D--3-3-3----------------------
A--3-3-3--1--3--5--3--1--3 (x2)
E--1-1-1----------------------

G5G5         A5A5 Bb5Bb5

Chorus (x2)

   D5D5       C5C5

G---------7-------------5-----
D-----7-----7------5------5--
A--5------------3--------------
E-------------------------------

   Bb5Bb5      A5A5

D--------8-------------7-----
A-----8-----8------7-----7--
E--6------------5------------

   G5G5    F5F5 G5G5 A5A5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5
 (bass play root, guitar 5th)

D--5-5-5---3---5---7--5---3---5--
A--5-5-5---3---5---7--5---3---5-- (x2)
E--3-3-3---1---3---5--3---1---3--

Verse
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Chorus (variation)
This time round don't play
the G5G5 riff twice,
play it once then go to
a D5D5 chord and let
the notes ring out:

   G5G5               G5G5

D--5-5-5-------------------5-5-5-
A--5-5-5-3-5-7-5-3-5---5-5-5-
E--3-3-3-------------------3-3-3-

   D5D5

D----7----7----7-
A--5----5---5----
E------------------

Hang around on the D MajorD chord
for a few bars, then
go to the middle bit

Middle

F5F5  D5D5  F5F5 D5D5 F5F5 D5D5

G5G5 (pick scrape)

(if you are playing in drop D MajorD
play the lowest F5F5 and D5D5
you can)

Verse (only x2 this time, not x4)
Pre-Chorus
Chorus (x8) (from the
third time onward stick in a short
solo - although it should be
barely audible through the
dirt)

End on G5G5

Corrections welcome