Soul Asylum - Nowhere to go
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Tuning: E A D G B E
This starts out with a gentle picking over a D chord then goes into a G Em C D pattern during Karl's
(RIP) monologue. You gotta hammer on/pull off occasionally on the high strings. Screw around with it a
bit and I'm sure you'll get it. Also, the 2nd guitar has some extra notes in between the chord changes
giving it kind of a bass line feel to it ----> G F# E
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Ah, the west
Where the men were mean
The women were scarce
And the sheep were mighty nervous
(Hocks and spits)
You know, I'm just a cowboy
But I've got no place to go
There's no more ranges for me to ride
Nah, they got rid of those sixty, seventy years ago
Go back to Em on the laugh
(laugh)
There are 2 riffs in the rest of the song. The 1st is instrumental with no singing over top. Let's
call it Riff 1. It follows a E B A B power chord pattern (the E is the high E played on the 7/9 frets of
the A-D-G strings) The "stop" below comes on the first strum of E of Riff 2. Riff 2 is E A B B pattern over
the verses. The start is just E strummed once and then muted. Quickly jump to A and then B
following the rhythm.
EStop
ALook where you're going (oh, oh, oh)
You're not going anywhere (oh, oh, oh)
People everywhere, new hairstyles (oh, oh, oh)
Where your bluffings not a change
Chorus is back to the G Em C D played in fast power chords
I ain't got nowhere… nowhere to go
Sometimes I feel so… so all alone
I ain't got nowhere… nobody's home
I need a fix, I'm oh so alone
Riff 1 x2 (first time, only strum each chord once, 2nd time go all out!) then back to Riff 2 over the
verse again
Ah, you, just ease his day (oh, oh, oh)
Easier said than done (oh, oh, oh)
I want you to make up your mind child (oh, oh, oh)
Don't bother telling me when you're done
Are you all done?
G Em C D for the chorus again
I ain't got nowhere… nowhere to hide
Sometimes I wish I could see the other side
I ain't got nowhere… nowhere to go
I'm coming down and I'm oh so alone
The whole ending is basically variations on the G Em C D riff. 1 guitar plays it as sliding power
chords (focused on the high strings) and the other plays riffs based on the root notes of the riff.
Example below on the A string
10--10-10-9-7--7-7-5-3--3-3-3-5-3-2-0--------------|
-------------------------------------------------3-|
Just play around with the root notes and you'll figure it out eventually.
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
The solo over the end is also follows the same pattern except higher
On the last G Em C D, skip the D and go back to G instead