Biography:
Tangerine Kitty is a collaboration between John Mescall, Ollie McGill from The Cat Empire, and Emily Lubitz, the lead vocalist of Tinpan Orange.
This group produced and performed the song Dumb Ways to Die for a public service advertisement for Melbourne Metro Trains.
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Other songs:
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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Dumb Ways to Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
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Tabbed by: rvaen
E-mail: [email protected]
Credit: to the guy who did all the hard work but got the music all wrong.
NOTE: I've been corrected in the comments and they are good so I will summarize them here.
The main correction is a minor voicing change - the e-string plays a G during both chords of the verse riff...
the first and third times.
For verse 2, the C is played as I have written it below (e-string open), but the Fmaj7 is instead a F9
(substituting the E for a G on the e-string once more).
The difference is very minor - The F9 and Fmaj7 are functionally identical, the C is still a C,
but the result is a slightly more cheerful-sounding accompaniment to the brutal ways to die,
and as such helps sell that irony.
The other correction is the nomenclature for a tritone passing chord - I wrote F#5 to indicate
the function of a vii/V. the comments say Gmaj7no3/F# (F#-G-D) which just means the composer
only wanted the bass to pass in that beat instead of the vii/V.
Both corrections have been reflected in the music below.
/NOTE
Tuning: Standard
(Intro and verses)
C F9
e-------------3-----------3-----| (2nd verse, Fmaj7 instead)
B------------1-----------1------|
G-----------0-----------2-------| (Repeat this until the end of each verse)
D----------2--------2h3---------|
A------0h3----------------------|
E-------------------------------|
Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that’s out of date
Use your private parts as piranha bait
CHORUS
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F F#/G5 G F (F#/G5: 2-x-0-0-3-x)
So many dumb ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F G C
So many dumb ways to die
END OF CHORUS
Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach yourself how to fly
Eat a two week old unrefrigerated pie
CHORUS
Invite a psycho killer inside
Scratch a drug dealer’s brand new ride
Take your helmet off in out of space
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place
CHORUS
Keep a rattle snake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue
(pause)
'I wonder what this red button will
do'
CHORUS
F G C Em F G
Dress up like a moose during hunting season
F G C Em F
Disturbed a nest of wasps for no good reason
G Am
Stand on the edge of a train station platform
G Am
Drive around the boom gates at a railroad crossing
G Am
Run across the tracks between the platforms
F G
They may not rhyme but they quite possibly
ENDING CHORUS
C C/B Am Em
Dumbest ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumbest ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F
So many dumb
F G C
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb Ways to Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: rvaen
E-mail: [email protected]
Credit: to the guy who did all the hard work but got the music all wrong.
NOTE: I've been corrected in the comments and they are good so I will summarize them here.
The main correction is a minor voicing change - the e-string plays a G during both chords of the verse riff...
the first and third times.
For verse 2, the C is played as I have written it below (e-string open), but the Fmaj7 is instead a F9
(substituting the E for a G on the e-string once more).
The difference is very minor - The F9 and Fmaj7 are functionally identical, the C is still a C,
but the result is a slightly more cheerful-sounding accompaniment to the brutal ways to die,
and as such helps sell that irony.
The other correction is the nomenclature for a tritone passing chord - I wrote F#5 to indicate
the function of a vii/V. the comments say Gmaj7no3/F# (F#-G-D) which just means the composer
only wanted the bass to pass in that beat instead of the vii/V.
Both corrections have been reflected in the music below.
/NOTE
Tuning: Standard
(Intro and verses)
C F9
e-------------3-----------3-----| (2nd verse, Fmaj7 instead)
B------------1-----------1------|
G-----------0-----------2-------| (Repeat this until the end of each verse)
D----------2--------2h3---------|
A------0h3----------------------|
E-------------------------------|
Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that’s out of date
Use your private parts as piranha bait
CHORUS
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F F#/G5 G F (F#/G5: 2-x-0-0-3-x)
So many dumb ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F G C
So many dumb ways to die
END OF CHORUS
Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach yourself how to fly
Eat a two week old unrefrigerated pie
CHORUS
Invite a psycho killer inside
Scratch a drug dealer’s brand new ride
Take your helmet off in out of space
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place
CHORUS
Keep a rattle snake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue
(pause)
'I wonder what this red button will
do'
CHORUS
F G C Em F G
Dress up like a moose during hunting season
F G C Em F
Disturbed a nest of wasps for no good reason
G Am
Stand on the edge of a train station platform
G Am
Drive around the boom gates at a railroad crossing
G Am
Run across the tracks between the platforms
F G
They may not rhyme but they quite possibly
ENDING CHORUS
C C/B Am Em
Dumbest ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumbest ways to die
C C/B Am Em
Dumb ways to die
F
So many dumb
F G C
So many dumb ways to die
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