Sucker Train Blues (ver4) Tab - Velvet Revolver






Song: Sucker Train Blues 
Band: Velvet Revolver 
Album: Contraband 
Tabbed by: Kabir 
ktaneja@students.latreobe.edu.au 

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Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Slash' 
Gtr 2 (E A D G B E) - 'Dave Kushner' 

4/4 
Gtr I 

::Intro:: 

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::Main RIff:: 

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::Verse 1 - with below riff:: 


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"Hands are shakin got your finger on the trigger 
Jesus ain't complainin gonna figure it out 
Somebody raped my tapeworm abortion 
Come on mother***ers and deliver the cow" 

::Verse 2 - same riff but played a with continuity:: 

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"Brain and body melting while there's roaches multiplying 
It's the alien infection it's the coming of Christ 
All these sentimental halos and these consequential angels 
When I'm runnin with the devil don't deliver the fight" 


::Pre Chorus:: 

A G 
"Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold 
A G 
Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold" 

::Chorus played with same main riff and the chords below:: 

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G Em 
"Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will find you 
G Em 
Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will blind you" 

::Verse 4 - played with same verse riff in variations:: 

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"Brains are frying while the kings and queens are dying 
Satan won the race and the miracle mile 
Somebody raped my tapeworm abortion 
Come on mothertuckers and deliver the cow 
It's all over me now 
Let me go, let me go, let me go 
What's come over me now 
Let me go, let me go, let me go 
It's all over me now 
Let me go, let me go, let me go 
What's come over me now" 

::Pre Chorus:: 

A G 
"Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold 
A G 
Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold" 


::Chorus played with same main riff and the chords below:: 

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G Em 
"Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will find you 
G Em 
Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will blind you" 

::Pre Chorus:: 

A G 
"Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold 
A G 
Don't look at me now 
B 
Fell too fast your wings won't hold" 

::SOLO:: 
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::Chorus played with same main riff and the chords below - this goes on till end:: 

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G Em 
"Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will find you 
G Em 
Yeah and when I want to 
G Em 
Yeah I will blind you" 

::OUTRO:: 

>>End with Em and then play the intro riff at a low octave