So Long

Everlast

 
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 Em
I knew a man with a son
bought him a gun
 AmG
he learned shorty just how to use it
 Em
taught him huntin' and skinin'
right from the beginin'
 AmG
built himself a mighty fine killer (killer)
 Em
but shorty got picked on
beat on and kicked on
 AmG
and all his classmates wanted to punk him
 Em
so with tears in his eye
and the catcher in the rye
 AmG
and he told his old man he went huntin' (huntin')
 Em
he never felt so free
like his destiny
 AmG
lay somewhere out on the horizon
 Em
it's hard when you're cold
he felt a hundred years old
Am& G&
and started pulling back on the trigger

Chorus:
Gtr. 1 & Gtr. 2

 AmC
 Think I'm gonna die today
 GF
 Everyone that hurt me's gonna pay
 AmC
 How could such a short time feel so long?
 GF
 How could such a young life go so wrong?

Bridge:

Gtr. 1: strum Em 4 times.
After that, Gtr. 2 hit (hard) the low D string 3 times. Then to verse 2

verse 2:
Gtr. 1

 Em
 See me hear me
 AmG
but don't touch me, you should fear me
 EmAm
cuz I'm clearly... cuz I'm seriously distrubed
 G
that's my word
Em*
don't wake my mother
just wake my brother
 AmG
cuz i found another who want to play sucker
 Em
and I ain't the one
who put shade in your sun
 AmG
and took all your shine... watch me get mine
Em*
feel how it burns
to pay for my sins
 Am
watch the world turn
 G
inside the beginin'
 Em
losses and wins
angels and demons
 AmG
dancin' on top of the head of a pin
 Em
don't know where I'm goin'

but I know where I been
 AmG
Can't hear a sound, clap me for pound
 Em
I came to get down
I came to get dirty
Am& G&
I came to get even (even, even even)

Chorus

Outro:
Gtr. 1
Gtr. 2 (clean)

 Am
 Please mama don't cry
 C
 Please mama don't cry
 GF
 Please mama don't cry you did nothing wrong

repeat w/o lyrics 1 time. End on F.

Notes:

I couldn't find the exact lyrics, so I did the best by ear. If anyone knows the real lyrics, drop me a line.

If you don't want to do drop D tuning, it sounds alright with just an E during the bridge.

During the chorus, on Gtr. 1, instead of just going from Am to C, it sounds better if you go Am, C/B, C, hitting C/B for one beat. Listen to the song to get the timing on that right.

For Gtr. 2, I know you can play an A chord with the base note on the A string, but you need to get the slide up to the C, then back down to the G and F. So start at the 7th fret, slide to the 10th, then slide down to the 5th, then the 3rd. It sounds weird at first, but that's the way it is on the CD.

Gtr. 2: distortion. Everlast uses what I like to call the "NIN Fuzz" on this song. What I mean by "NIN Fuzz" is a heavy distortion, but with low tone quality. If you have amp distortion, I recomend using that with either your neck pickup or using both neck and bridge pickups, and your tone knob either all the way, or halfway down. If you're using a pedal, just put the distortion down to about half, turn the tone down about 2/3rds of the way, and turn up the volume, since doing this takes you down a lot. Or you can use mild distortion with a fuzz pedal, or distortion with a phaser pedal, with the phase about halfway. I just use the amp distortion method.

For the outro, there's still distortion, but not enough for it to be palm muted. So I recomend either just palm muting Gtr. 2, or just playing Gtr. 2 clean.


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