Basket Case
Basket Case
Jaded in Chicago version
Guitar tune 1/2 step down
P.M.
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do you have the time to listen to me whine
P.M.
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--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---
about nothing and everything all at once
i am one of those
melodramatic fools
neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
P.M.
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sometimes i give my self the creeps
P.M.
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sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
P.M.
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it all keeps adding up i
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think i'm cracking up
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--5--5--5--5--7--7--7--7-----7--7--------7--7-----7--7--------7--7--
am i just paranoid? am i just stoned?
Second verse
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i went to a shrink to analize my dreams, she said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
i went to a whore, he said my life is a bore, just quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
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sometimes i give myself the creeps,
sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
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it all keeps adding up, i think i'm cracking up
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--5--5--5--5--7--7--7--7-----7--7--------7--7-----7--7--------7--7--
am i just paranoid? yeah, yeah, yeah
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grasping to control, so you better hold
Bridge
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on...
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?
am i just
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--4-4-5-5-4-4-4-5-5-4-5-5-5-----7-7-7-7-7-- x 4 times
stoned?
Outro
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Basket Case words by Billie Joe Armstrong, music by Green Day
from album Dookie, Reprise Records, 1994.
This TAB was transcribed by Eiko Ogata
©1997 dodada@hotmail.com
