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Date: Sunday November 17, 2002
Subject: d/davis_stuart/asshole_world_renown.tab
Asshole World Renown by Stuart Davis from the album 16 Nudes
Submitted by Dave (WuPhish@aol.com)

Standard Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:

Progression 1:

E|--2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3--|--2-2-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
B|--4-4-0-0-0-0-2-0-3-3-3-3--|--4-4-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-3--|
G|--4-4-0-1-1-0-2-0-4-4-4-4--|--4-4-0-1-1-0-2-2-2-2-2-4--|
D|--4-4-0-2-2-0-2-0-5-5-5-5--|--4-4-0-2-2-0-2-2-2-2-2-5--|
A|--2-2-0-2-2-0-0-0-5-5-5-5--|--2-2-0-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-5--|
E|--2-2---0-0-------3-3-3-3--|--2-2---0-0-------0-0-0-3--|

Progression 2:

E|--2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3--|--2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3--|
B|--4-4-0-0-0-0-2-0-3-3-3-3--|--4-4-0-0-0-0-2-2-0-3-3-3--|
G|--4-4-0-1-1-0-2-0-4-4-4-4--|--4-4-0-1-1-0-2-2-0-4-4-4--|
D|--4-4-0-2-2-0-2-0-5-5-5-5--|--4-4-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-5-5--|
A|--2-2-0-2-2-0-0-0-5-5-5-5--|--2-2-0-2-2-0-0-0-0-5-5-5--|
E|--2-2---0-0-------3-3-3-3--|--2-2---0-0-------0-3-3-3--|

Mute chord progression 2 during verses.

Progression 3:

E|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
B|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
G|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
D|-7799-7799-----------|-9999-9999-----------|-7799-7799-----------|
A|-5555-5555-7799-7799-|-7777-7777-7799-7799-|-5555-5555-7799-7799-|
E|-----------5555-5555-|-----------5555-5555-|-----------5555-5555-|

G F# “Asshole world re- nown

E|-3--------------0-----|-------------------| Back into
B|-3----------------0---|-------------------| progression 1.
G|-4------------3-------|-------------------|
D|-5------------4-------|-------------------|
A|-5------------4-------|---------5-----4---|
E|-3---------2----------|-2--0--------------|

Verse 1 w/Progression 2:

Bored stiff with my wallet fat
I ordained myself a diplomat
bought a plane and some aerosol
sprayed my name on China’s Wall

Verse 2 w/Progression 2:
Then I pissed all over the Kremlin steps
punched a monk in Tibet
got drunk and disordered in the old Big Apple
passed gas in the Cistine Chapel

Verse 3 with Progression 3:
I’ve thrown darts at the Mona Lisa
tied lead weights to the tower of Pisa
sold salt water in the big Sahara
then I took a shit in the Riviera

Asshole World Renown

Progression 2, one time no vocal

Verse 4 with Progession 2:

Went to Rome and spread V.D.
robbed the homeless in Tahiti
was slapped by a woman in the great Euphrates
kidnapped kids in the slums of Haiti

Verse 5 with Progression 2:
Play high E string open on all chords

Poisoned livestock in Korea
tainted foodshelves in Tanzania
torched Saigon like a Buddhist pyro
slashed tires in the streets of Cairo

Verse 6 with Progression 2:
keep playing F# at “my bare hands”
right into the next verse.

I chucked eggs at Castro’s doorway
I once puked on the king of Norway
for eighteen days I roamed Japan
choking little kittens with my bare hands

Verse 7 with Progression 3:

Stuck my gum on Venus De Milo
did Zimbabwe shooting rhinos
ran nude straight through Nepal
spit my chew in the Taj Mahal

Asshole World Renown

End with progression 1.

Only Changing Drugs

I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year
Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers

(Band In)

Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings

I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)

I choke out clich confessions, I suck down coffee black
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
My higher power drug me, I?m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)

Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
The Big Book is omniscient and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs

Self help study, twelve step program, which hollow slogan was it?
We found serenity and Day by Day or Easy does it ?
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
Betty Ford?s our statewide mentor (w/ Fill 1)

They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
?Don?t take others inventory,? ?Thanks for sharing your sick story
If I bluff I know they?ll call it, ?I?m Stuart, I?m an alcoholic? (w/Fill 1)

Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs

(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)

It?s a self-perpetuating business, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
Treatment?s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs

Outro ? G D G C F Emin FEmin

Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)

G 0
D 0-2