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Capo: 4 Tuning: E A D G B E
Tabbed by: Tim Prizer (tim_prizer@yahoo.com) Originally posted at http://www.indieguitartabs.com/bands/damien_jurado/medication.html CAPO 4 standard tuning Play this one with a capo on 4 to make it sound just like the record. I saw Damien the other night in Atlanta play this song with these exact chords with a capo on 6, but that's not the way he does it on the record. The whole song is based around a C chord and what I call a Fadd4* (play this one from low to high: 0-3-3-2-1-0). The entire song follows a very simple picking pattern that I have tabbed below: e|---------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------| G|----------0----------0------0----------0-----------| D|------2------2----------0------0-----------2-------| A|------3----------3-----------------3---------------| E|---------------------------------------------------| Repeat this and then switch to the Fadd4* and play a similar picking pattern on it. Improv on this one a bit, or listen to the record to do it exactly as Damien does it. Then, go back into the picking pattern on C, lifting your second finger on and off of the fourth string second fret as tabbed above. Also, be sure to hammer back onto the fourth string occasionally in the verses. For instance, one should hammer on the word "brother's" in the first verse, "asked" in the second, "spies" in the third, "man" in the fourth, and "Jackie" in the last. -------
It Cjust so happens I have many concerns My brother's down the road and my lover in town Fadd4* They both need affection And some kind of Clove Fadd4* Well I'm the one who gives it at any given time
From two in the morning to six
Call me up and Ccry My Clover keeps it secret that we meet under covers
When asked by her man if we two are lovers Fadd4* She says, "I hardly know him.
Besides, he's not my Ctype." Fadd4* Her man's a policeman with a keen sense of trouble
He's known to spot danger
And all kinds of Cliars My Cbrother called this morning in a terrible panic
Spies in the closet, bugs in the attic Fadd4* He screams bloody murder saying,
"We're all gonna Cdie." Fadd4* And death is upon me, I know 'cause he showed me Pictures of graveyards and us underCneath. Fadd4* I'm losing my hearing from my brother screaming,
"They're coming to get me.
Can someone call the Cpolice?" CTwo in the morning, the phone disconnected
Her man knows I'm calling, it's what I expected Fadd4* C A note on my backdoor saying, "Baby, not tonight." Fadd4* So I sit with my brother who is nursing a cut wrist He's mumbling "Forgive me."
And "Don't let them take me Caway." Fadd4* I can be a good boy and stay out of trouble
Jackie I love you and
Don't let them take your Cbrother CStrapped to a table, go in the electrodes
"Jackie come save me the doctors will kill me." Fadd4* No, they're here to help you
Straighten out your Cmind." Fadd4* The TV is blaring with some preacher saying that God is among us and he hears our Ccries Fadd4* Lord, do me a favor
It's wrong but I ask you
Take my brother's Clife Fadd4* 'Cause he's sick of the suffering
The pills he's inhaling The cross he is bearing
That is his troubled Cmind