ZZ Top – Squank (Guitar Tab)
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Billy Gibbons uses some crazy pinch harmonics on this track, like on almost every note!
Chords in the verses are palm muted.
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Woman, grab your children, run and hide, don't let it catch up with you
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You got to fight it to stay alive, and if it gets you, man, you're through
[Chorus]
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It smells so rotten and rank, well, everybody calls it the squank
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[Verse 2]
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It's sick, depressing, getting bigger all the time, don't help it any way you can
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It's grey and brown and sometimes lime, and it's spreading all over the land
[Chorus]
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And soon we'll be all breathing out of tanks, if something ain't done about the squank
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[Bridge]
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[Verse 3]
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The meanest thing the world's ever bred, by me and you and my kinfolk too
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A monster can't live unless it's fed, and it's being fed by me and you
[Chorus]
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And soon it's going to leave the world blank, and we'll all be erased by the squank
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[Outro]
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| b Bend
| ~ Vibrato
| / Slide up
| \ Slide down
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