Rancid : "Hyena" Guitar chords

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From: pike@merle.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: HYENA -Rancid
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 12:54:06 -0500 (CDT)

HYENA - by Rancid    from the self-titled album
tabbed by Adam Peiken  

(This song is easiest divided into 11 separate parts)

1.  During Bass Intro, Guitar plays distortion in the key of G.  At the end of
the intro, right before
"Here we go!"  Slide a C to a D.


2.  In the part of the song following that (but before the lyrics begin) the
guitar plays:
G D#   G D#   G D#   C D    X2


3.  VERSE
G
I'm money ..
     B-C-B-C
It's ...
G
Can't ...
                       B-C-B-C
Use the rope ...
G
Knuckle up, ..
              B-C-B-C
The ride's ...
G                             B-C-B-C
But I will not ...
G		B-C-B-C
I asked them if I .....
G				B-C-B-C
And the first thing ...
G				B-C-B-C
If I can't come in, that ...
G		              F
That means I got ...


4.  CHORUS
F           C        Bb                  F
I'm a hyena fighting for ....
F               C          Bb            F            X2
Sometimes the lion ....

G D#   G D#   G D#   C D    X2


5.  VERSE 2  (Same chords as the first)
Absent from political ...


6.  CHORUS


7.  VERSE 3   (A little different.  Also heavy mike distortion.  *Besides the
"D#  Bb" chords are
basically impossible to pick out.  The bass carries the melody.  However it
does sound sort of like
a G being raked.)
G*
Every time I turn around ....
G*
Getting ganked I ...
G*
And life's co...
G*					      D#    Bb
I'm a bad missionary with a ....
G*
(????) ...is not the way I ...
G*
Who could I trust in a ...
G*
When I'm taught to ...


8.  BRIDGE
D#
Who could ...
Bb
When I'm taught to take ....


9.  SOLO  (Don't have time to tab this out, but these are the chords played
under the solo.)
F         C          Bb          F       X 4
Guitar solo played out of a blues scale in the key of F


10.  Repeat first verse (#3)


11.  CHORUS  v.2
Play through the chords (F   C   Bb    F) two times alone with the bass before
kicking in the chorus
lyrics.
During the second time through:
Spoken:  You see there's nothing you can say ...

F           C        Bb                  F
I'm a hyena fighting ...
F               C          Bb            F
Sometimes the lion ....
--------------------------------------------------------
F       C            Bb   G#          F
Sometimes the lion ....


Write me with comments, corrections, requests, etc.  I'd like to hear from
you.
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Adam Peiken 

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