This is the Green Day song Basket Case from the 1994 album Dookie. This version is a
more bluesy acoustic version, played slower than the original, all open 7th chords instead
of the original power chords. It sounds great played with an acoustic.
Try it and please rate
Chords used
D7 – xx0212
A7 – x02020
B7 – x21202
Fmaj7 – xx3210
G7 – 320001
Cmaj7 – x32000
Verse
D7 A7
Do you have the time
B7 Fmaj7
To listen to me whine
G7 D7 A7
About nothing and everything all at once
D7 A7
I am one of those
B7 Fmaj7
Melodramatic fools
G7 D7 A7
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Chorus
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G7 A7
It all keeps adding up
D7 Cmaj7 B7
I think I'm cracking up
G7 A7
Am I just paranoid?
D7
I'm just stoned
Interlude
D7 A7 B7 A7 x 2
Verse
D7 A7
I went to a shrink
B7 Fmaj7
To analyze my dreams
G7 D7 A7
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
G7 A7
I went to a whore
B7 Fmaj7
He said my life is a bore
G7 D7 A7
And quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
Chorus
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G7 A7
It all keeps adding up
D7 Cmaj7 B7
I think I'm cracking up
G7 A7
Am I just paranoid?
D7
I'm just stoned
Interlude
D7 A7 B7 A7
Bridge
G A
Grasping to control, So you better hold on
Verse
D7 A7
Do you have the time
B7 Fmaj7
To listen to me whine
G7 D7 A7
About nothing and everything all at once
D7 A7
I am one of those
B7 Fmaj7
Melodramatic fools
G7 D7 A7
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Chorus
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
G7 A7 D7
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
G7 A7
It all keeps adding up
D7 Cmaj7 B7
I think I'm cracking up
G7 A7
Am I just paranoid?
D7
I'm just stoned
Outro
D7 B7 G7 D7 A7 x 4
G7 D7 A7