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Heroin

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Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Riff 1           Riff 2           Riff 3

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

Order: 1-2-3-2

This song is based on the chords Db and Bb, which are played as follows:

C#      Bb

e|--1------1---| B|--2------3---| G|--1------3---| D|--3------3---| A|--x------x---| E|--x------x---|

Lyrics:

C#   Bb        C#  Bb                C#   Bb  C#  Bb

I   don't know    just where I'm going

C#   Bb       C#             Bb       C#

But I'm    gonna try for the kingdom if I can

Bb               C#

Cuz it makes me feel like I'm a man

Bb              C#

When I put a spike into my vein

Bb                        C#

Then, I tell ya', things aren't quite the same

Bb              C#

When I'm rushin' on my run

Bb                     C#

And I feel just like Jesus' son

Bb                       C#

And I guess that I just don't know

Bb                        C#

And I guess that I just don't know

C#  Bb        C#  Bb         C#   Bb  C#  Bb

I     have made     big decisions

C#  Bb        C#  Bb                C#

I'm   gonna try     to nullify my life

Bb               C#

Cuz when the blood begins to flow

Bb                       C#

When it shoots up the dropper's neck

Bb              C#

When I'm closing in on death

After this line, Morrison interjects with a riff B, which is to be repeated as necessary:

e|-----7---7---9---7--------| B|-----8---8---10--8--------| G|-----7---7---9---7--------| D|--------------------------| A|--------------------------| E|--------------------------|

Bb                  C#

And you can't help me, not you guys

Bb                          C#

Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk

Bb              C#

You can all go take a walk

Bb                   C#

And I guess I just don't know

Bb                        C#

And I guess that I just don't know

C#   Bb        C#  Bb                            C#  Bb  C#  Bb

I   wish that    I was born a thousand years ago

C#  Bb         C#  Bb                           C#

I      wish that     I'd sailed the darkened seas

Bb                   C#

On a great big clipper ship

Bb                  C#

Going from this land here to that

Bb                  C#  Bb  C#  Bb

Ah, in a sailor's suit and cap

C#       Bb            C#

Away from the big city

Bb              C#

Where a man cannot be free

Bb              C#

Of all of the evils of this town

Bb                 C#

And of himself and those around

Bb                        C#

Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

Bb                        C#

Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

C#   Bb   C#

Heeeeeroin

Bb                 C#  Bb  C#  Bb

Be the death of me

C#   Bb   C#

Heeeeeroin

Bb                C#

It's my wife and it's my life

Bb             C#

Because a mainline to my vein

Bb            C#

Leads to a center in my head

Bb              C#

And then I'm better off as dead

Bb               C#

Because when the smack begins to flow

Bb                C#

Ah, I really don't care anymore

Bb                  C#

About all the jim-jims in this town

Bb                     C#

And all the politicians makin' busy sounds

Bb                       C#

And everybody puttin' everybody else down

Bb                   C#

And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam

Play riff B a few times

Bb               C#

Cuz when the smack begins to flow

Bb                      C#

Then I really don't care anymore

Bb                C#

Ah, when that heroin is in my blood

Bb               C#

And that blood is in my head

Bb                      C#

Then thank god that I'm good as dead

Bb                  C#

And thank your god that I'm not aware

Bb                      C#

And thank god that I just don't care

Bb                  C#

And I guess I just don't know

Bb                  C#

Ah, and I guess I just don't know

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