Red Hot Chili Peppers – Brendans Death Song (Guitar)

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Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Song: Brendan's Death Song
Album: I'm With You (August 2011)
tabbed by: necriononguitar
e-mail (NO SPAM!): [email protected]
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Chords:
    D   C   Am  G Cmaj7 Em
E---2---0---0?-(3)------0---------|
B---3---1---1---0---0---0---------|
G---2---0---2---0---0---0---------|
D---0---2---2---0---2---2---------|
A-------3---0?-x/5--3---2---------|
E---------------3-------0---------|
THE Riff:
Version 1   thanks to tayloaw0 for the addition. Check out his tab (detail picking)
    D         C             Am        Em        G
E---0h2p0------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-------------1-(1h)3--1----0h1-0--1--0~--------0~-------------------------|
G---2~----0---0~---------0--2~-----------2-0--------0~--*strum or pick G*--|
D---0~------------------------------------------0~-------------------------|
A-------------3~------------0~---------------0-----------------------------|
E-------------------------------------0~--------3~-------------------------|

Version 2  original one
    D         C             Am        Em        G
E---0h2p0------------------------------------------------------------------|
B---------3---1-(1h)3--1----0h1-0--1--0~--------0~-------------------------|
G---2~--------0~---------0--2~-----------2-0-2------0~--*strum or pick G*--|
D---0~------------------------------------------0~-------------------------|
A-------------3~------------0~---------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------0~--------3~-------------------------|

[Chorus]
    G    Cmaj7    Em   (someone tell me if thats really Cmaj7!)
E----------------(0~)---------|
B---0~-----0~-----0~----------|
G---0~-----0~-----0~----------|
D---0~-----2~-----2~----------|
A--x/5~----3~-----2~----------|
E---3~------------0~----------|
[Verse]
D    C            Am     Em              G
If I die before I get it done will you decide

D       C                   Am   Em                 G
Take my words and turn them into signs that will survive

          D    C        Am Em            G
because a long time ago I  knew not to deprive

     D        C                    Am   Em                    G
It's safe out there and now you're everywhere just like the skies

D       C                 Am    Em                  G
You are love, you are the love supreme, you are the rise

             D    C                     Am   Em                G
And when you hear this you'll know it's your jam it's your goodbye
[Chorus]
G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                           Cmaj7                 Em
and when the drummer drums he's going to play my song to carry me along

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                      Cmaj7               Em
and when the boatman comes to ferry me away to where we all belong
[Verse]
D      C                    Am      Em                 G
We all crossed when we were feeling lost it's just the tide

  D    C                 Am    Em            G
Katari cried the day her lover died she recognized

           D    C             Am   Em              G
Because he gave her a life of real love it's no surprise

    D          C            Am        Em                 G
The nights are long but the years are short when you're alive

D        C                Am  Em            G
Way back when would never be again it was a time,

           D     C              Am  Em              G
It's gonna catch you, so glad I met you to walk the line
[Chorus]
G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                           Cmaj7                 Em
and when the drummer drums he's going to play my song to carry me along

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                      Cmaj7               Em
and when the boatman comes to ferry me away to where we all belong
Fill on Em (please feel free to post something for that in the comments!)
G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                           Cmaj7                 Em
and when the drummer drums he's going to play my song to carry me along

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                      Cmaj7               Em
and when the boatman comes to ferry me away to where we all belong
(Lyric suggestions for next lines please) [Verse]
G                        Cmaj7                Em
Let me live so when it's time to die even the reaper cries

G                       Cmaj7                Em
Let me die so when it's time to live another son will rise

       G          Cmaj7       Em
I said Yeah  Yeah Yeah   Yeah Yeah

       G          Cmaj7       Em
I said Yeah  Yeah Yeah   Yeah Yeah  (cont. a while, fading)
[Chorus]
G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                           Cmaj7                 Em
and when the drummer drums he's going to play my song to carry me along

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                      Cmaj7               Em
and when the boatman comes to ferry me away to where we all belong

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                           Cmaj7                 Em
and when the drummer drums he's going to play my song to carry me along

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

             G                      Cmaj7               Em
and when the boatman comes to ferry me away to where we all belong

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone

G                        Cmaj7                     Em
Like I said you know I'm almost dead, you know I'm almost gone