Biography:
Screeching Weasel is an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois. They were formed in 1986 by Ben Weasel (aka Ben Foster who also used to be a columnist for the punk fanzine Maximum Rocknroll) and John Jughead (aka John Pierson). The band gained prominence in the early 1990s after signing to East Bay punk label, Lookout! Records and are cited to be a major influence over many bands playing that style of punk music.
Through the years, the band went through many line-up changes
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Other songs:
- Hey Suburbia
- Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart
- A New Tomorrow
- All Winter Long
- Around On You
- Automatic Rejector
- Baby Talk
- Beginningless Vacation
- Bottom Of The 9Th
- Burnout Girl
- Cat
- Clean
- Compact Disc
- Cool Kids
- Count To Three
- Creepy Crawl
- Dingbat
- Diy
- Every Night
- Experience The Ozzfish
- Falling Apart
- Guestlist
- Hardcore Hippie
- Hey Asshole
- I Cant Stand Myself
- I Dont Care Anymore
- I Wanna Be A Homosexual
- I Wanna Be Naked
- I Wanna Be With You Tonight
- Im Gonna Strangle You
- Insanity
- Jeannies Got A Problem
- Jockpunk
- K
- Kamalas Too Nice
- Leather Jacket
- Love
- Major Label Debut
- Making You Cry
- March Of The Lawnmowers
- Message In A Beer Bottle
- My Brain Hurts
- My Right
- Nightbreed
- Peter Brady
- Plastic Bag
- Police Insanity
- Psychiatrist
- Racist Society
- Say No To Authority
- She Got Electroshocked
- Stupid Over You
- Surf Goddess
- Teenage Freakshow
- The Last Janelle
- The Science Of Myth
- Tower Of Talent
- Used Cars
- Veronica Hates Me
- Wanna Die
- What We Hate
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"The Last Janelle"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["The Last Janelle"]
D G
You dopes are all the same and that's why I'm so ashamed
E G A
To be a part of what might be called the punk rock community
D G
You take things way too seriously or else you take them too lightly
E G A
Post messages on AOL but don't you dare fuck with Janelle
G D
She's everything that you're not, she's not a girl, she is a thought
G
She's an idea or an ideal that you won't
A
Ever get so go play with your make believe internet friends
D G
She's on a Greyhound bus, I ate a hairy coconut
E G A
I think I might have diverticulitis, Is there too much beer inside us
D G
Ugly riot girls saying I don't know shit - it hurts
E G A
To know you care enough to send the very shittiest, so gentlemen
G D
And ladies have a seat and allow me to repeat
G
That your stupid on-line world and your
A
Stupid comments may well be justification for a beating
G D
Where applicable
A D
Not valid in Vermont
G D
Void where prohibited
A G D
And shut your fucking mouth
G D
Don't go to Easter Isle
A D
And overpopulate
G D
You'll destroy God's Spaceship Earth
A G D
Dilute dilute OK
"D.I.Y."
[Notes]
* (pm) = palm-muted
* E = 0 2 2 X X X
* E(VII) = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["D.I.Y."]
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D ]
A D F# E(VII) D
D.I.Y. Why because we hate you and the dumb look on your face
A D F# E(VIII) D
D.I.Y. Why because your band's another weak charity case
F# D A E
Our shows should be five bucks or less, we'll do it for the kids
F# D A E(VII)
Two legs good, MTV bad, and major labels suck No fucking shit
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D ]
A D F# E(VII) D
D.I.Y. is simply your only excuse for why you always fail
A D
Initials on the flag you wave
F# E(VII) D
When your shitty records won't sell anywhere
F# D A E
Politics and social comment, twenty dollar words
F# D A
Won't make your lousy music go down easier
E(VII)
You can't polish a turd
A(pm) D(pm) F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
D.I.Y. means do it yourself because it's what you want
A(pm) D(pm)
It doesn't clean the slate when
F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
Everything gets all fucked up
A(pm) D(pm) F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
What would you do you phony fuckhead if you hit it big?
A D
Stop acting better than me
F# E(VII) D A / E(VII)
We both know you're full of shit
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D / A / E(VII) ] x2
[ End on A ]
"Compact Disc"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
* All F# chords = X 8 10 10 X X
* (pm) = palm-muted
***
["Compact Disc"]
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is called a compact disc
D(pm) A(pm)
It's a method of conveying sound, it's square outside, inside it's round
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is a digitally accurate
D(pm) A(pm)
Reading of the numbers that make up different sounds in fact
E
It's the most technologically advanced
F# D
Sound reproduction known to man
A E (w/ slides up from D#)
At least in the commercially viable sense
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is called a compact disc
D(pm) A(pm)
Every subtle nuance of a tune is made available to you
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is a high-tech dream come true
D(pm) A(pm)
Technically it works with laser beams yet you can learn to use it easily
E F#
Throw your scratched, dusty records in the trash
D A
It's time to move out of the past
E (w/ slides up from D#)
In the profit analysis sense
[Solo]
A
That thing you're listening to is called a waste of time
D A
An inferior and overpriced product of an underactive mind
A
That thing you're listening to is a multi-flawed industry scam
D
Devoid of any thought or heart at all
A
It's the antithesis of rock and roll
E
But no one cares that a record sounds better
F# D A
Cause you just can't buy them so it just doesn't matter at all
E (w/ slides up from D#)
And that's common sense
[ End on A ]
[Solo w/ rhythm guitar chords]
A D A
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------7-----
A-----7-7----5-4-5-4--------4-5-4---4-5-4-5---7---
E--5-----------------5-5----------5---------------
D A
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------7-----
A-----7-7----5-4-5-4--------4-5-4---4-5-4-5---7---
E--5-----------------5-5----------5---------------
D A D A
E------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------
A--5-4-----7-5-4-5-4---------5-4-----7-5-4-5-4---
E------7-5-----------------------7-5-------------
D E
E----------------------
B----------------------
G----------------------
D----------------------
A--5-4-----------4-7---
E------7-5-2-5-7-------
"Hey Asshole"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
* All F# chords = X 8 10 10 X X
***
["Hey Asshole"]
Hey asshole your teeth are stained brown from all the shit you talk
Hey asshole what about all the fat little teenage boys you fuck
Hey asshole aside from dealing coke and LSD what have you done
Dick
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
B
Hey asshole do you feel all warm inside
D F#
Lording it over a bunch of kids
B
You're no upright citizen you pig,
D F#
A tenth grade boy's mouth around your dick
B
Hey asshole aside from writing pretentious boring
D F#
Tunes what have you did
Hack
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
[ B / G / D / A / D / E ] x4
Motherfucker!
B D F#
Hey asshole on the internet a couple dozen mongoloids at your tit
B D F#
Hey asshole I think your heart done be inflated with horseshit
B
Yeah shit dude, you fucking dirty old man
D F#
You fucking tourist, you wrinkled old twit
Fuck you
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
[ B / G / D / A / D / E ] x4
B D F#
Hey asshole, everybody knows you're the Michael Jackson of punk rock
B
Asshole
"Racist Society"
[Notes]
* (pm) = palm-muted
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["Racist Society"]
A B E
Did you know that you live in a racist society
A B
Did you know you're the privileged class
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
And everybody else is essentially taking it up the ass
E A
Did you know that you could be free
E A
Did you know that's not the way that it has to be
E A
Did you know you can still change everything
C#(pm) B(pm)
Did you know that there's no such thing as equality
A(pm) B(pm) E
And there might never be if you don't change
A B E
Did you know that you live in a war zone (culturally)
A B
Did you know that your parents were fucked
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
When they taught you how to fear anybody who wasn't white enough
E A
Did you know that you could be free
E A
Did you know that's not the way that it has to be
E A
Did you know you can still change everything
C#(pm) B(pm)
Did you know that the older you get
A(pm) B(pm)
It gets easier to blame somebody else for your own mess
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
Did you know that the Jews don't run the world
B(pm)
And all black men aren't criminals
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
Did you know there's a lot of money to be made
B(pm) C#(pm) B(pm)
From keeping you paranoid, suspicious, worried, frightened
A(pm) B(pm)
All wound up and tense inside 'cause
E B C# A
Big business runs the government and it's not good business
E B A(pm)
If we burn down the government so they keep us occupied
E B C# A
With moron TV shows and shitty beer that wipes out brain cells
E B A
And whining about Congress and stupid fucking income taxes
C#
And if that's not enough
A
To keep your mind off of
E B
The way you're getting dicked around
C#
They fill you with fear and hate
A
Give you someone to blame
E
For all your problems
B A
While the country's going down the fucking toilet
E A
Do you know what they think of you
E A
Do you know how contemptuous they are of you
E A
Do you know how easy you are to fool
C#(pm) B(pm)
You're like a dog doing after a ball that was never thrown
A(pm) B(pm) E(pm)
Well guess what you're on your own Good luck
"Nightbreed"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["Nightbreed"]
[ B / G / E ] w/ Lead Riff A x4
[Verse]:
B G
This used to be a place where we could walk the streets
A E
Unrestricted by imaginary fears
B G
Things didn't seem to be so complicated then
A E
Til you polluted everything that we had here
B G
Our little secret was exposed for all its worth
A E
Stripped of everything that made it good and then
B G
We were forced out of the world that we created
A E
And expected to move on and start again
[Chorus]:
B D G E
We live here today
B D G E
We live here always always
B D G E
We live here today
B D G E
We live here always always
[ B / G / E ] w/ Lead Riff A x2
[Repeat Verse]:
The money moved right in and sucked the life right out
So the privileged could sit back and enjoy
The things that made this place what it was before you came here
Were the first things you decided to destroy
We walk your streets late at night while you're asleep
Creeping from the sewers oozing from the cracks
We are the blood that pumps the heart you call your home
And any day we're gonna come to take it back
[Repeat Chorus]
B D
We live here, we live here, we live here, we live here
G E
We live here, we live here
B D
We live here, we live here, we live here, we live here
G E
We live here, we live here
[Repeat Chorus, End on B]
Lead Riff A (w/ rhythm guitar chords)
B G E
E----------------------------
B--7-0-7-0-7-8--7-0----------
G-------------------7-6------
D-----------------------9-7--
A----------------------------
E----------------------------
and repeat
After playing the lead three times at the start, and after playing
it once after the first chorus, play this slight variation:
B G E
E------------------------------
B--7-0-7-0-7-8--7-0------------
G-------------------7-6--------
D-----------------------9-7-9--
A------------------------------
E------------------------------
All Tabs Originally Transcribed By Mike Ripplinger ([email protected])
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["The Last Janelle"]
D G
You dopes are all the same and that's why I'm so ashamed
E G A
To be a part of what might be called the punk rock community
D G
You take things way too seriously or else you take them too lightly
E G A
Post messages on AOL but don't you dare fuck with Janelle
G D
She's everything that you're not, she's not a girl, she is a thought
G
She's an idea or an ideal that you won't
A
Ever get so go play with your make believe internet friends
D G
She's on a Greyhound bus, I ate a hairy coconut
E G A
I think I might have diverticulitis, Is there too much beer inside us
D G
Ugly riot girls saying I don't know shit - it hurts
E G A
To know you care enough to send the very shittiest, so gentlemen
G D
And ladies have a seat and allow me to repeat
G
That your stupid on-line world and your
A
Stupid comments may well be justification for a beating
G D
Where applicable
A D
Not valid in Vermont
G D
Void where prohibited
A G D
And shut your fucking mouth
G D
Don't go to Easter Isle
A D
And overpopulate
G D
You'll destroy God's Spaceship Earth
A G D
Dilute dilute OK
"D.I.Y."
[Notes]
* (pm) = palm-muted
* E = 0 2 2 X X X
* E(VII) = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["D.I.Y."]
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D ]
A D F# E(VII) D
D.I.Y. Why because we hate you and the dumb look on your face
A D F# E(VIII) D
D.I.Y. Why because your band's another weak charity case
F# D A E
Our shows should be five bucks or less, we'll do it for the kids
F# D A E(VII)
Two legs good, MTV bad, and major labels suck No fucking shit
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D ]
A D F# E(VII) D
D.I.Y. is simply your only excuse for why you always fail
A D
Initials on the flag you wave
F# E(VII) D
When your shitty records won't sell anywhere
F# D A E
Politics and social comment, twenty dollar words
F# D A
Won't make your lousy music go down easier
E(VII)
You can't polish a turd
A(pm) D(pm) F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
D.I.Y. means do it yourself because it's what you want
A(pm) D(pm)
It doesn't clean the slate when
F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
Everything gets all fucked up
A(pm) D(pm) F#(pm) E(VII)(pm) D(pm)
What would you do you phony fuckhead if you hit it big?
A D
Stop acting better than me
F# E(VII) D A / E(VII)
We both know you're full of shit
[ A / D / F# / E(VII) / D / A / E(VII) ] x2
[ End on A ]
"Compact Disc"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
* All F# chords = X 8 10 10 X X
* (pm) = palm-muted
***
["Compact Disc"]
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is called a compact disc
D(pm) A(pm)
It's a method of conveying sound, it's square outside, inside it's round
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is a digitally accurate
D(pm) A(pm)
Reading of the numbers that make up different sounds in fact
E
It's the most technologically advanced
F# D
Sound reproduction known to man
A E (w/ slides up from D#)
At least in the commercially viable sense
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is called a compact disc
D(pm) A(pm)
Every subtle nuance of a tune is made available to you
A(pm)
That thing you're listening to is a high-tech dream come true
D(pm) A(pm)
Technically it works with laser beams yet you can learn to use it easily
E F#
Throw your scratched, dusty records in the trash
D A
It's time to move out of the past
E (w/ slides up from D#)
In the profit analysis sense
[Solo]
A
That thing you're listening to is called a waste of time
D A
An inferior and overpriced product of an underactive mind
A
That thing you're listening to is a multi-flawed industry scam
D
Devoid of any thought or heart at all
A
It's the antithesis of rock and roll
E
But no one cares that a record sounds better
F# D A
Cause you just can't buy them so it just doesn't matter at all
E (w/ slides up from D#)
And that's common sense
[ End on A ]
[Solo w/ rhythm guitar chords]
A D A
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------7-----
A-----7-7----5-4-5-4--------4-5-4---4-5-4-5---7---
E--5-----------------5-5----------5---------------
D A
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------7-----
A-----7-7----5-4-5-4--------4-5-4---4-5-4-5---7---
E--5-----------------5-5----------5---------------
D A D A
E------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------
A--5-4-----7-5-4-5-4---------5-4-----7-5-4-5-4---
E------7-5-----------------------7-5-------------
D E
E----------------------
B----------------------
G----------------------
D----------------------
A--5-4-----------4-7---
E------7-5-2-5-7-------
"Hey Asshole"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
* All F# chords = X 8 10 10 X X
***
["Hey Asshole"]
Hey asshole your teeth are stained brown from all the shit you talk
Hey asshole what about all the fat little teenage boys you fuck
Hey asshole aside from dealing coke and LSD what have you done
Dick
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
B
Hey asshole do you feel all warm inside
D F#
Lording it over a bunch of kids
B
You're no upright citizen you pig,
D F#
A tenth grade boy's mouth around your dick
B
Hey asshole aside from writing pretentious boring
D F#
Tunes what have you did
Hack
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
[ B / G / D / A / D / E ] x4
Motherfucker!
B D F#
Hey asshole on the internet a couple dozen mongoloids at your tit
B D F#
Hey asshole I think your heart done be inflated with horseshit
B
Yeah shit dude, you fucking dirty old man
D F#
You fucking tourist, you wrinkled old twit
Fuck you
[ E / B / D / A ] x4
[ B / G / D / A / D / E ] x4
B D F#
Hey asshole, everybody knows you're the Michael Jackson of punk rock
B
Asshole
"Racist Society"
[Notes]
* (pm) = palm-muted
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["Racist Society"]
A B E
Did you know that you live in a racist society
A B
Did you know you're the privileged class
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
And everybody else is essentially taking it up the ass
E A
Did you know that you could be free
E A
Did you know that's not the way that it has to be
E A
Did you know you can still change everything
C#(pm) B(pm)
Did you know that there's no such thing as equality
A(pm) B(pm) E
And there might never be if you don't change
A B E
Did you know that you live in a war zone (culturally)
A B
Did you know that your parents were fucked
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
When they taught you how to fear anybody who wasn't white enough
E A
Did you know that you could be free
E A
Did you know that's not the way that it has to be
E A
Did you know you can still change everything
C#(pm) B(pm)
Did you know that the older you get
A(pm) B(pm)
It gets easier to blame somebody else for your own mess
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
Did you know that the Jews don't run the world
B(pm)
And all black men aren't criminals
C#(pm) B(pm) A(pm)
Did you know there's a lot of money to be made
B(pm) C#(pm) B(pm)
From keeping you paranoid, suspicious, worried, frightened
A(pm) B(pm)
All wound up and tense inside 'cause
E B C# A
Big business runs the government and it's not good business
E B A(pm)
If we burn down the government so they keep us occupied
E B C# A
With moron TV shows and shitty beer that wipes out brain cells
E B A
And whining about Congress and stupid fucking income taxes
C#
And if that's not enough
A
To keep your mind off of
E B
The way you're getting dicked around
C#
They fill you with fear and hate
A
Give you someone to blame
E
For all your problems
B A
While the country's going down the fucking toilet
E A
Do you know what they think of you
E A
Do you know how contemptuous they are of you
E A
Do you know how easy you are to fool
C#(pm) B(pm)
You're like a dog doing after a ball that was never thrown
A(pm) B(pm) E(pm)
Well guess what you're on your own Good luck
"Nightbreed"
[Notes]
* All E chords = X 7 9 9 X X
***
["Nightbreed"]
[ B / G / E ] w/ Lead Riff A x4
[Verse]:
B G
This used to be a place where we could walk the streets
A E
Unrestricted by imaginary fears
B G
Things didn't seem to be so complicated then
A E
Til you polluted everything that we had here
B G
Our little secret was exposed for all its worth
A E
Stripped of everything that made it good and then
B G
We were forced out of the world that we created
A E
And expected to move on and start again
[Chorus]:
B D G E
We live here today
B D G E
We live here always always
B D G E
We live here today
B D G E
We live here always always
[ B / G / E ] w/ Lead Riff A x2
[Repeat Verse]:
The money moved right in and sucked the life right out
So the privileged could sit back and enjoy
The things that made this place what it was before you came here
Were the first things you decided to destroy
We walk your streets late at night while you're asleep
Creeping from the sewers oozing from the cracks
We are the blood that pumps the heart you call your home
And any day we're gonna come to take it back
[Repeat Chorus]
B D
We live here, we live here, we live here, we live here
G E
We live here, we live here
B D
We live here, we live here, we live here, we live here
G E
We live here, we live here
[Repeat Chorus, End on B]
Lead Riff A (w/ rhythm guitar chords)
B G E
E----------------------------
B--7-0-7-0-7-8--7-0----------
G-------------------7-6------
D-----------------------9-7--
A----------------------------
E----------------------------
and repeat
After playing the lead three times at the start, and after playing
it once after the first chorus, play this slight variation:
B G E
E------------------------------
B--7-0-7-0-7-8--7-0------------
G-------------------7-6--------
D-----------------------9-7-9--
A------------------------------
E------------------------------
All Tabs Originally Transcribed By Mike Ripplinger ([email protected])
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