Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang Chords & Tabs

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From: norlin@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Subject: REQ: Pretenders' "Back on the chain gang"

[Riff]: 

e---------0-3------3331---110---00------------------------------------
B-1------1------------------------3---331---01------------------------
G-------0-------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------



From: julius@alumni.caltech.edu (julius yang)

Well I finally sat down with the Singles CD and bashed this out.  I can
play the riff at the beginning, but now that I don't have my guitar
in hand I forget it.  Agh.  I can't understand two places where Chrissy
is singing either--'crescending' and 'baggle' aren't words that I know
of, but that sounds like what she's saying.  Corrections appreciated.

Back on the Chain Gang, the Pretenders

opening strum: D A G G D A G G

riff x2


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From: schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Adam Schneider)
Subject: CRD: "Back on the Chain Gang" (The Pretenders)

BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG (The Pretenders)
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[All the work on this song was done by nlin@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu
 (Norman Lin); I just cleaned it up a little for my own use.]

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D   A   G   G        D   A   G   G
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/pretenders/back_on_the_chain_gang_tab.html ]
There are about three versions of this already in the archive, but none of
them is quite right.  This one's a little better; someone sent it to me last
fall, and I recently cleaned it up because I wanted to play it.

Unfortunately, this might still have mistakes; I can't check because I don't
have the album.  I'll have to see if I can get them to play it on the radio...

Adam

Funny chords:
Em*: 022003
F#m*: 244225
Dm*: x00231 - x00230 - x00231
AaddF*: x02220 - x02221 - x02220


Intro & Solo:
                D                  A
e -------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
B ----------7--10-7-/|10~------------/10--10--|10~------------/10--10--|
G -------7-----------|------------------------|------------------------|
D (7)-7--------------|------------------------|------------------------|
A -------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E -------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
   ^     ^     ^      ^     ^     ^     ^      ^     ^     ^     ^

e |------------------------|------------------------|-------
B |10-p8---8---8--s7---7---|7-----------------------|-------
G |------------------------|----9---9--7b9--7---6--/|7------
D |------------------------|------------------------|-------
A |------------------------|------------------------|-------
E |------------------------|------------------------|-------
   ^     ^     ^     ^      ^     ^     ^     ^      ^
(/=slide, p=pull off, b=bend, ~=vibrato)


For the ending two chords, arpeggiate as follows:
   E                           B
e----------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------0----------------------4-----------------------------
G--------------1-----1----------------4-----4--------------------------
D---------2--------------2---------4-----------4-----------------------
A--------2----------------------2--------------------------------------
E--0-------------------------------------------------------------------


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