Drinking and Driving Tabs & Lyrics by Black Flag
Drinking and Driving
guitar tabs lyrics
There are a lot of tabs for this song but many are incorrect. The track time at each
is listed at each section heading.
Composer: Greg Ginn and Henry Rollins
Album: In My Head (1984)
Tabbed by: [email protected]
Intro (0:00)
Played four times:
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--------------------|
-----------3--------|
---------4-3--------|
-----4-5------------|
---3----------------|
Chorus (0:05)
Played eight times:
--------------------|
--------------------|
------------4--3----|
------------4--3----|
------4--5----------|
---3----------------|
Verse (0:15)
Played once:
G F C
-----------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------4--3-----------4--3----|
----------------555-----------4--3-----------4--3----|
---5333333-3333-333-----4--5-----------4--5----------|
---3333333-1111------3--------------3----------------|
Ab C D *
---------------------3-3---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------3-3---------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------5-3---3-----------3--3h0-2h0--3h0-2h0--3h0-2h0----|
--33333333-55555-7-----------5---5-3---3-5-----------3--------3--------3---|
--11111111-33333-5-------------------5-------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
*Ginn plays a pentatonic riff in G here and Dez Cadena keeps playing rithym riff from
chorus; I usually improvise Ginn's part when I play -and he likely does too- it but I've
it pretty close to what it is on the CD. The last part with the pull-offs is also
and it is done a few times more than what I've written.
Prechorus (0:28)
Played three times:
-------------------------------|
-------------------------------|
-----------2-1-----------------|
--2--2-2-2-----2-1-0-----------|
---------------------4--4-4----|
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(0:36)
The fourth time is a variation of the other three (played three times):
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
-----------2-1--------2-1-------2-1-----------------|
--2--2-2-2-----2-1--------1-0-------0-4--4-4-4------|
----------------------------------------------------|
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The last four notes from the above section are not played on the third time and the song
directly into the chorus again. Then comes another verse with a differing lead riff:
Verse (0:15)
Played once:
G F C
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-----------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------4--3-----------4--3----|
----------------555-----------4--3-----------4--3----|
---5333333-3333-333-----4--5-----------4--5----------|
---3333333-1111------3--------------3----------------|
Ab C D **
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----------------------5b(1)---5p3h5p3h5p3------------|
--33333333-55555-7-----------------------------------|
--11111111-33333-5-----------------------------------|
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Ginn starts with some of those bizarre sounds -his trademark- before going into the full
I've tabbed there. That's essentially the whole song other than the solo, which I will
in a separate file. Email me with any questions.
