Bad Card tab by Bob Marley

Bob Marley & The Wailers

BAD CARD
Uprising (1980)
Performed by Bob Marley, Aston Barrett, Al Anderson,
Tyrone Downie, Wya Lindo, & Seeco Patterson


Notation 🏷Legend
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h  - Hammer-On
p  - Pull-Off
b  - Bend
B  - Bend (grace note) (bend as fast as you can)
r  - Release Bend
.  - Staccato Phrasing (showed above the notes)
~  - Vibrato
tr~ - Trill (fast hammer-on/pull-off combination)
x - Pick Scrape
T  - Tap
A.H - Artificial Harmonic
x  - Fret-Hand Muting (percussive tone)
/  - Shift Slide Up
  - Shift Slide Down
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/  - Legato Slide Up (only first note picked)
_
  - Legato Slide Down (only first note picked)
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s  - Legato Slide (grace note) (slide as fast as you can)
mf - Mezzo Forte (medium loud)
f  - Forte (loud)

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Time Signature: 4/4
Slow Ska q = 56 bpm

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Intro
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Organ Intro Arranged for Guitar

  F  Em Dm   G   G

e|-1---0---1~-----3------3-------------------------------------------------|
B|-1---0---3~-----3------3-------------------------------------------------|
G|-2---0---2~-----4------4-------------------------------------------------|
D|-3---2---0------5------5-------------------------------------------------|
A|-3---2----------5------5-------------------------------------------------|
E|-1---0----------3------3-------------------------------------------------|

Guitar 1 (Rhythm Guitar): Fill 1
mf

  G   Dm

e|-3------x------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3------6------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4------7------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Verse & Chorus
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Guitar 1 (Rhythm Guitar)

  G  G  C  C  G  G  Am Am

e|--3---3---3---3---3---3---5---5------------------------------------------|
B|--3---3---5---5---3---3---5---5------------------------------------------|
G|--4---4---5---5---4---4---5---5------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  You a go tired fe see me face
  Can't get me out of the race
  Oh man you said I'm in your place
  A make you draw bad card
  And then you draw bad card

  Propaganda spreading over my name
  Say you want to bring another life to shame
  Oh man you just playing a game
  And then you draw bad card, draw bad card
  A make you draw bad card, draw bad card

  Am Am

e|--5---5------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--5---5------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--5---5------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  A make you draw bad card


  F  F  C  C

e|--1---1---3---3----------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1---1---5---5----------------------------------------------------------|
G|--2---2---5---5----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  I want to disturb my neighbor
  Cause I'm feeling so right
  I want to turn up my disco


  F  G  C  C

e|--1---3---3---3----------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1---3---5---5----------------------------------------------------------|
G|--2---4---5---5----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  Blow them to full watts tonight


  G  G  C  C  G  G  Am Am

e|--3---3---3---3---3---3---5---5------------------------------------------|
B|--3---3---5---5---3---3---5---5------------------------------------------|
G|--4---4---5---5---4---4---5---5------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style
  In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style

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Bridge
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Guitar 1 (Rhythm Guitar)

  F  Em Dm Dm Dm Dm G  G

e|--1---7---5---5---5---5---3---3------------------------------------------|
B|--1---8---6---6---6---6---3---3------------------------------------------|
G|--2---9---7---7---7---7---4---4------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|


  Cause we guarding the palace so majestic
  Guarding the palace so realistic


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Song Structure
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 1. Intro		 (0:00)
  w/ Guitar Fill #1  (0:05)
 2. Verse & Chorus    (0:08)
 3. Bridge		 (1:38)
 4. Verse & Chorus    (1:56) to fadeout