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Basket Case
Green Day
E5 B5
Do you have the time
C#5 G#5
To listen to me whine
A5 E5 B5 (2)
About nothing and everything all at once
E5 B5
I am one of those
C#5 G#5
Melodramatic fools
A5 E5 B5 (2)
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Chorus:
A5 B5 E5 (2)
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5 B5 E5 (2)
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
A5 B5
It all keeps adding up
E5 (½) D5 (½) C#5
I think I'm cracking up
A5 B5
Am I just paranoid? Am I just stoned?
Interlude:
/ E5 - B5 - / C#5 - B5 -/ x2
E5 B5
I went to a shrink
C#5 G#5
To analyze my dreams
A5 E5 B5 (2)
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
E5 B5
I went to a whore
C#5 G#5
She said my life’s a bore
A5 E5 B5 (2)
And quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
Chorus
Interlude:
/ E5 - B5 - / C#5 - B5 -/ x4
Bridge:
A (2) Bb (2, hold second measure)
Grasping to control So you better hold on
Instrumental Verse
Chorus
Outro:
/ E5 - - - / C# - - - / A5 - E5 - / B5 - - - / x4
/ A5 - E5 - / B5 - - - / x2, hold each chord
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
