A
Recorded By Barenaked Ladies
Words and Music by Steven Page
From the album Maybe You Should Drive
Tabbed by John Argentiero (jargent@wam.umd.edu)

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For the ideal tone for this song, use a strat with the tone
knobs way up around 10.   Or on acoustic, just kinda mellow out
and go with the groove.
For this song, there's basically two riffs, two fills and
some chords.   I tabbed out the riffs at the top, and put where
they should go with some chords at the bottom.
The verses all have the same pattern so you can fill in the
words yourself.
The bridge has an instrumental pattern right before it.
This uses the same chords as the bridge, so just play it once
without the words.  You can handle it.

On with the tab.

Riff 1
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Where the X's are marked, get a nice percussive
sound from the strings.

   A		    Eadd4
e--X-X--5-------5----------------|
B--X-X--5-------5----X---9-------|
G--X-X--5h6----(6)---X---9-------|     
D--X-X--5h7----------X---9-------|	  
A--X-X--5h7---7----------0-------|
E--X-X--5-----5------------------|

Fill at end of Intro Riff
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(first time only)

e--------------------------|
B--------------------------|
G--------------------------|
D--------------------------|
A----2--4-----2p0----------|
E--0---------------2p0-----|


Riff 2
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   G		    D/A
e---3-------3----------------|
B---3-------3----X---7-------|
G---3h4----(4)---X---7-------|    
D---3h5----------X---7-------|	  
A---3h5---5----------0-------|
E---3-----3------------------|

Fill 1
e-----------------0----|
B-----------------0----|
G-----------------1----|
D-----------------2----|
A--sl5-4-2-0------2----|
E--------------0--0----|


Riff 1			Riff 1
A is for Angry which is what you are at me

Riff 1			Riff 2
A is for adult which is what I'll never be

Riff 1		       Riff 1
A is for applesause my favorite meal

Riff 1		       Riff 2
A is for Adam which is how I sometimes feel like I'm the 

Riff 2			      E  E   E    E      E
Only man on earth and I've forgotten what that's worth


Chorus
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      D          C#m          A       A7
And I don't even know why you keep on trying

       D          C#m        F#m
Like I don't even know why I keep on lying

	  D           Bm        G               F#m
There are millions of people in worlds of their own

    Fill 1                E
And two of them can't let go



Bridge
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Gm	      F
I met a woman I used to know

Dm	Cm	 Dm
Long before you, long ago

Cm		Bb
All I could say, after hello

Gm           Cm    Dm
Was "Are you still single!"


Hope this all makes some sense...  
Any problems, questions, comments or anything,
let me know,   jargent@wam.umd.edu