If Life Is Like A Love Bank I Want An Overdraft chords by The Wildhearts

* If Life Is Like A Lovebank I Want An Overdraft
* By the Wildhearts
* Violated from the album 'Fishing for Luckies'

Tabbed by Luke Hayward
Submitted 24/3/98
(d.hayward@virgin.net)

This was one of the first 'Hearts songs that I figured out. It's little
more than one main riff and a few chords so you can dive right in.


(noise and feedback)
INTRO RIFF
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|---------------------------|---------------------------|
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|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|-------8-----------10------|------8--------7-----------|
|---/6-----6--7--8---8------|---6-----6--8-----8--7-----|

MAIN RIFF

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|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|
|-------3-----------5-------|------3--------2-----------|
|----1-----1--2--3--3-------|---1-----1--3-----3--2-----|
|---------------------------|---------------------------|

(the astute among you will realise that this is the same riff, just in
 a different place. No prizes I'm afraid, but it makes it a hell of a
 lot easier to switch to the next chord...)

{Okay, now we're set to play the song, hang on to your pick}

[-INTRO RIFF-]

F (palm muted)
On and on you wait so long
It only takes a word if you found where it went wrong

[-MAIN RIFF-]

F
Fists, gists and ....

[-MAIN RIFF-]

G
Take it awhile and ...
F (strike once and then mute strings)
Ooh, it was ...

[-MAIN RIFF-]

Well, it was something else...

Chorus:

Am7
If life (x4)
F
If life (x2)
D
If life (x2)
[-MAIN RIFF-]
If life is like a love bank I ....(x4)

// from here on out the rest of the lyrics follow the pattern before. it's all
// fairly straightfoward.

Yeah!

In, in, invest to .....

Well it was something else...

Chorus

Everyone will take it till ....
[Shit/cheers]...

Chorus Life is like a love bank, I.....

// the Wildhearts tend to tune down half a step for their songs, so in
// all respects this is usually played in Eb with all the riffs up one fret
// and all the chords #. For all the difference it makes!
// Next up - Sick of Drugs!!
// it sometime