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Transcription (for this REALLY excellent song)

Freshmen - The Verve Pipe

:verse1:
EE Piano Chord 
                       AA Piano Chord 

when I was young I knew everything
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                   BB Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 

and she a punk who rarely ever took advice
EE Piano Chord 
                              AA Piano Chord 

now I'm guilt stricken sobbing with my head on the floor
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                  BB Piano Chord 
     AA Piano Chord 

stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice (no)

:chorus:
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
  BB Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

I can't be held responsible
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
  BB Piano Chord 
          AA Piano Chord 

'cause she was touching her face
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
  BB Piano Chord 
      AA Piano Chord 

I won't be held responsible
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
  BB Piano Chord 
                AA Piano Chord 

she fell in love in the first place

:bridge:
EE Piano Chord 
                   AA Piano Chord 

for the life of me, I cannot remember
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                     BB Piano Chord 
       AA Piano Chord 
                         EE Piano Chord 

what made us think that we were wise and we didn't compro-mise
AA Piano Chord 

for the life of me,  I cannot believe
C#mC#m Piano Chord 
             BB Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

we'd ever die for these sins we were merely freshmen

:verse2:
my best friend took a week's vacation to forget her
his girl took a week's worth of valium and slept
and now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his head on the floor
thinks about her now and how he never really wept, he says...

(repeat chorus)
(repeat bridge)
(:screaming:)

:verse3:
we've tried to wash our hands of all of this
we never talk of our lacking relationships
and how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our heads on the floor
we fell through the ice, when we tried not to slip, we'd say it...

(repeat chorus)
(repeat bridge)
(repeat chorus and fade)

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There are some nice little hammer-off/on things going on
with the A chord especially (Asus2, Asus4) that you can tinker
with, but hopefully this will help get people started.

Hint: In this phrasing...

EE Piano Chord 
                       AA Piano Chord 

when I was young I knew everything

I think it sounds real nice if you play a quick B chord
over the word "knew", so it's like:

EE Piano Chord 
                  BB Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 

when I was young I knew everything

You may or may not choose do to so but I thought it added a
little snap. I "smell" that B in there somewhere, especially
if you play the B without the high "e" string fingered, but open.
'course I'm doing this on an acoustic and trying to eek out a little
extra "magic".

George Quebbeman
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
"This is a personal work and in no way reflects upon or has
any relationship to my employer, yada-yada-yada."