The Offspring – Hammerhead (Guitar)

Capo 4 Video Lesson
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Chords

Album version of Hammerhead by The Offspring. If you see chords written like this: G(Em), it means that you can play Em or G and it won't really differ. I left them as a variable as I couldn't decide which chord sounds closer to the original. [Intro] Em x12 Em D x8 [Verse 1]
G
I am the one

G
Camouflage and guns

G
Risk my life

                       Em D  Em D  Em D  Em D
To keep my people from harm

G
Authority vested in me

G
I sacrifice

                    Em D  Em D
With my brothers in arms
[Pre-Chorus]
Am           D(C)
Through this doorway

       Em
What's on the other side

Am    D(C)
Never knowing

  Em
Exactly what I'll find

Am
Locked and loaded

                       D
Voices screaming, let's go

G       D              Em
Come on do it, here we go
[Chorus]
     C                       G
I'll take a life, ten others may live

D                          Em
Oh, that's just the way it goes

     C                        G
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head

D                      Em
Where it'll end nobody knows

     C                       G
I'll take a life, ten others may live

D                          Em
Oh, that's just the way it goes

             C             G
It's playing over and over in my head

D                      Em
Where it'll end nobody knows
[Instrumental] Em D x4 [Verse 2]
G
Stay the course, reasonable force

                            Em D  Em D  Em D  Em D
I believe I serve a greater good

G
Smoke and dust, enemies are crushed

                               Em D  Em D
Nothing left, where a man once stood
[Pre-Chorus]
Am           D(C)
Through this doorway

       Em
What's on the other side

Am    D(C)
Never knowing

  Em
Exactly what I'll find

Am
Locked and loaded

                       D
Voices screaming, let's go

    G        D              Em
But I'm just doing what I'm told
[Chorus]
     C                        G
I'll take a life, ten others may live

D                          Em
Oh, that's just the way it goes

     C                        G
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head

D                      Em
Where it'll end nobody knows

     C                       G
I'll take a life, ten others may live

D                          Em
Oh, that's just the way it goes

             C             G
It's playing over and over in my head

D                   G           D          *
Where it begins and where it'll end nobody knows

[Bridge]
* play tab from this moment:
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------| x3
A|-------------------------|-3--3--3-----------------|
E|--5--5----5--3--3----3---|----------3-----0--3--4--|

e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|---------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-5-5-5-5-----------------| (Back to chords.)
                 - Hey,       go!
Am G C G(Em) x3
Am
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Am G C G(Em) x3 Am x4
Am             G       C      G(Em)
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head    x3

Am
In my head, in my head

[Play this tab again throughout the first part of brigde]
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------| x3
A|-------------------------|-3--3--3-----------------|
E|--5--5----5--3--3----3---|----------3-----0--3--4--|

e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|---------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-5-5-5-5-----------------|
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for Thou art with me Locked and loaded, gonna find my truth Now I'm busting through, all hell breaks loose
Am          G          C         G(Em)
And you can all hide behind your desks now

Am          G              C           G(Em)  Am
And you can cry, "Teacher, come help me"

G           C       G(Em) Am
Through you all, my aim is true! My!

Am         G C G(Em)
Whoo-hoo!

Am         G C
Whoo-hoo!

G(Em)    Am    G C G(Em)
My aim is true!
Am x2 [Outro] Asus2 Am x4
Am
My aim is true
Am G x4 Am