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  From: hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com (Marc Hertzberg 
  
  
  	Helter Skelter
  	(Lennon/McCartney)
  
  Intro:
  
  -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|--123--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
             When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the
  
  -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|-----2--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
      slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a
  
                                                    G           
  -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|-----1--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------
  -|------------------------------------------------3--3--3--3--------
      ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
  
                             E
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--5--5--6---------6------2--2--2--2--32--2--2--2-----------------
  -|--3--3--3---------3------0--0--0--0--10--0--0--0-----------------
            Yeah yeah  yeah!
  
  
  Verse:
  
       E
  Well do you don't you want me to make you
  
  I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
                                   G
  Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
            A                                E
  Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
  
  
  
  Chorus:
              A
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------
  -|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
      Well, Helter Skelter
       E
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
  -|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
      Helter skelter
       A                                    E
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--------------------------------------------5b(7)--3--5-----------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
  -|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
      Helter skelter                        Yeah
  
  So much for verses and choruses.  The rest are pretty much the same,
  except that the rest of the verses hit the G chord a little sooner
  (at the beginning of the third line of the verse).
  
  Here's the guitar solo in the middle:
  
      E                          A                      E
  -|----------------------7--7--15b(17)--15b(17)--b(17)15-------------
  -|----------------------0--0----------------------------------------
  -|----------------------9--9----------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|------------------------------------------------------------------
      'Cos here she comes
                                    A                                    E
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--b(17)15b(17)15---------------13b(14)------------------b(17)15-----------
  -|------------------b(14)12---------------b(14)12b(14)12-----------12-------
  -|---------------------------14----------------------------------------14~--
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  Later, there's a neat riff in one of the last verses.  I think it
  comes right after "will you won't you want me to make you" or something
  like that.  This is a cool riff with that looonnnng slide.
  
  -|--12--15b(17)--b(17)15--12------12----------------------------------------
  -|----------------------------15------1510-----10b(12)--b(12)10--8---------
  -|-------------------------------------------9-----------------------7--9---
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  
  
  As the song fades into the first ending, there are some nice bend releases,
  while the lyrics repeat "coming down fast":
  
  -|--b(17)15------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------b(17)15---------------------------------------------------
  -|--------------------b(16)14------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------b(14)12---------------------------------
  -|--------------------------------------b(14)12------------------------
  -|---------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.
  
  

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