Date: Mon, May 21 2007
From: Bryan Grant(fredmofchoice@yahoo.com)
Group: Green Day
Album: Dookie
Released: 1994 Reprise Records
Track: 7
Title: Basketcase
Tuning - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (1/2 step down)
P - Palm mute
Intro
PP PP PP PPP PP PP pp ppp pp pp pp ppp pp pp p pp ppp
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Play Twice.
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-99-9-99-9--------------66-6-66-6------------------------9-99-9-999-9-------------------------|
|-99-9-99-9-9-99-9-999-9-66-6-66-6-6-66-6-666-6-77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-9-99-9-99-9-9-9-99-9-999-9|
|-77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-9-44-4-44-4-6-66-6-666-6-77-7-77-7-7-77-7-777-7-99-9-99-9-9-9-99-9-999-9|
|-----------7-77-7-777-7-----------4-44-4-444-4-55-5-55-5--------------77-7-77-7-7-7-77-7-777-7|
After second time play this.
pp pp pp ppp pp pp p pp ppp
----------------------------------------------------|Play three times, but play the following change at the end.
----------------------------------------------------|
------------------------99-9-99-9-9-9-99-9-999-99---|
77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-99-99-9-99-9-9-9-99-9-999-99---|
77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-99-77-7-77-7-7-7-77-7-777-77---|
55-5-55-5-7-77-7-777-77-----------------------------|
On third time play this.
pp pp pp ppp
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------9-9-77-666-666---------------9----66----99----66----|
|77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-9-9-9-77-666-666-77-777-999-99-9-99-66-77-99-99-66-77-|
|77-7-77-7-9-99-9-999-9-7-7-55-444-444-77-777-999-99-7-99-44-77-77-99-44-77-|
|55-5-55-5-7-77-7-777-7----------------55-555-777-77---77----55----77----55-|
Verse
|---------------------------------------------------------------|Play twice.
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-99-999----------66-666----------------9-99-99-----------------|
|-99-999-9-99-999-66-666-666-666-77-777-9-99-99---99-999-999-99-|
|-77-777-9-99-999-44-444-666-666-77-777-7-77-77---99-999-999-99-|
|-00-000-7-77-777--------444-444-55-555-----------77-777-777-77-|
lyrics
do you have the time to listen to me whine
about nothing and everything all at once
i am one of those melodramatic fools
neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
sometimes i give myself the creeps
sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
it all keeps adding up, i think i'm cracking up
am i just paranoid? i'm just stoned
i went to a shrink to analyze my dreams
she says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
i went to a whore, he said my life's a bore
and quit my whining cause it's bringing her down
grasping to control, so you better hold on
