Devo – Can You Take It (Guitar Tab)

Greetings, beautiful mutants! And how may I be of service? ...Oh, Devo guitar tabs, you say? Will do! ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Maxwell1981 Email: [email protected] Tuning: Standard (E A D G B e) --- "Can you take it?"*

e|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|8888-6666-|
A|8888-6666-|
E|6666-4444-|
Play that... eight times? I don't know.

Pre-verse:
e|------------|
B|------------|
G|------------|
D|4-2-----0---|
A|-5-1-3'1-1--|
E|----------3-|
Played once before each verse

Verse**:
e|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|------0---|
A|---3'1-1--|
E|--------3-|
This is played ten times in each verse.
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LYRICS:

Can you take it? Popeye's big punch knocks Pluto cold Cartoon people don't go old Yosemite Sam blows up his head But you and me wind up dead Dreamed I laid a toaster Daddy caught me in the act Can you take it? Beauty queens get bigger all the time Mamma's in a basket, crossed a double Yellow line Magazines and T.V.s show us nice behinds All the kind of stuff nobody ever finds Headlines in the paper: "killed by rock n' roll" Can you take it? --- HELPFUL TIPS: After the last "Can you take it", the first riff is played for the remainder of the song... endlessly. The pre-verse and verse riff sound like there is a second guitar playing the same thing, but an octave higher. *When this riff starts, It sounds like the 6th fret chord is played five times, and the 4th fret chord is played eight times... It's just a really weird pattern. **The three empty dashes symbolize the break before playing. This is where the lyrics would be. | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note | ' Symbolizes the separation of certain notes (i.e.--playing the 3rd, then 1st fret of the same string won't look like playing the 31st fret)