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        This is an official QUALITY TABS INC. TabFile
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This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation
of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship
or research.
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                SONG TITLE: Basket Case
              ARTIST/GROUP: Green Day
                     ALBUM: Dookie
            TRANSCRIBED BY: qualitytabs@qualitytabs.tk
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CHORDS:
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     EADGBE         EADGBE
E5  (x799xx)    A5 (577xxx)
B5  (799xxx)    D5 (x577xx)
C#5 (x466xx)    E2 (022xxx)
G#5 (466xxx)

The intro and first verse are played palm-muted. Listen to it
to understand what I mean and hear the accents.
 You have to tune one note (semitone, half-step, whatever you
want to call it) down to play along with the CD.


VERSE 1:
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E5              B5       C#5          G#5
Do you have the time? To listen to me whine?
 A5               E5                B5
About nothing and everything all at once
E5          B5      C#5        G#5
I am one of those melodramatic fools
   A5           E5                   B5
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it


CHORUS:
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A5            B5              E5
  Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5             B5                   E5
  Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
   A5               B5
It all keeps adding up
  E5        D5       C#5
I think I'm cracking up
   A5         B5
Am I just paranoid
         E5     B5   C#5   B5   E5   B5  C#5  B5
I'm just stoned


VERSE 2: [play like verse 1, but not palm-muted]
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I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore, who said my life's a bore
so quit my whining cause it's bringing her down


CHORUS: [play like first chorus]
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Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
I'm just stoned


BRIDGE:
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E5 B5 C#5 B5 E5 B5 C#5 B5

A5             B5   [stop]
Grasping to control
                 E5   B5   C#5   G#5   A5   E5   B5
so I better hold on
E5   B5   C#5   G#5  A5   E5   B5


CHORUS:
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A5            B5              E5
  Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5             B5                   E5
  Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
   A5               B5
It all keeps adding up
  E5        D5       C#5
I think I'm cracking up
   A5         B5
Am I just paranoid
         E5
I'm just stoned


OUTRO:
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E5    C#5     A5  E5  B5
E5    C#5     A5  E5  B5
E5    C#5     A5  E5  B5
E5    C#5     A5  E5  B5    A5 E2 B5


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