ALICE IN CHAINS - "junkhead" Tablature

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From: "Scott H. Andrews" <sha3u@fermi.clas.virginia.edu>

J U N K H E A D

by Alice in Chains
from "Dirt" 1992

transcribed by Scott Andrews (sha3u@virginia.edu)


INTRO: RIff 1 w/ ad lib intro vocal

RIFF 1:
yeah................
B5 Bb5 Bb5 G5 F#5 F5 F5 E5
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------4---3------3-----------------------------|
|------4---3------3---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|------2---1------1---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|---------------------3---2-----1-----1---0-----|

B5 Bb5 Bb5 G5 F#5 F5 F5 E5 E5
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------4---3------3-----------------------------|
|------4---3------3---5---4-----3-----3---2---2-|
|------2---1------1---5---4-----3-----3---2---2-|
|---------------------3---2-----1-----1---0---0-|

yeah............. ah..............
B5 Bb5 Bb5 G5 F#5 F5 F5 E5
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------4---3------3-----------------------------|
|------4---3------3---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|------2---1------1---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|---------------------3---2-----1-----1---0-----|

end Riff 1
B5 Bb5 Bb5 G5 F#5 F5 F5 E5
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------4---3------3-----------------------------|
|------4---3------3---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|------2---1------1---5---4-----3-----3---2-----|
|---------------------3---2-----1-----1---0-----|


VERSE 1: Riff 2 w/ lyrics

a good night, the best in a long time
a new friend turned me on to an old favorate
nothing better than a dealer who's high
be high, convince them to buy

RIFF 2:

|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------2---1------1-----------------------------|
|---------------------3~--2-----1-----1---0-----|
palm mute slightly

|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------2---1------1-----------------------------|
|---------------------3~--2-----1-----1---0-----|


|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------2---1------1-----------------------------|
|---------------------3~--2-----1-----1---0-----|

end Riff 2
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|------2---1------1-----------------------------|
|---------------------3~--2-----1-----1---0-----|


CHORUS:

yeah..... what's my drug of choice?
A5 C5 G5 F5
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---3----------3--2--0-----0------|
|--0--0--0---3------------X-X--|--X--X--X---3-------------------3---------|
|-------------------------X-X--|--3--3--3---1-------------------------3~--|

well, what have you got?
A5 C5 G5 F5
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---3----------3--2--0-----0------|
|--0--0--0---3------------X-X--|--X--X--X---3-------------------3---------|
|-------------------------X-X--|--3--3--3---1-------------------------3~--|

I don't go broke
A5 C5 G5 F5
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---3----------3--2--0-----0------|
|--0--0--0---3------------X-X--|--X--X--X---3-------------------3---------|
|-------------------------X-X--|--3--3--3---1-------------------------3~--|

and I do it a lot
A5 C5 G5 F5
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---------------------------------|
|--2--2--2---5-----------------|--0--0--0---3----------3--2--0-----0------|
|--0--0--0---3------------X-X--|--X--X--X---3-------------------3---------|
|-------------------------X-X--|--3--3--3---1-------------------------3~--|


VERSE 2: Riff 1 w/ lyrics

seems so sick to the hypocrite norm
running their boring drills
but we are an elite race of our own
the stoners, junkies, and freaks


VERSE 3: Riff 2 w/ lyrics

are you happy? i am man
content and fully aware
money, statues, nothing to me
'cause your life's empty and bare


CHORUS


INTERLUDE: guitar plays harmonized solo while bass plays Chorus.

Solo:

|-------------------------------------|
|---------------8----------8--8--10---|
|------------9------------------------|
|--7---7--7---------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
repeat 4x
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---8------8--8--10---------------------------------|
|--------------------10------10--9--7------7--------|
|--------------------------------------10-----------|
|---------------------------------------------10----|
|---------------------------------------------------|


RIFF 1: w/ ad lib intro vocals


VERSE 4: w/ Riff 2 and lyrics

you can't understand a user's mind
but try, with your books and degrees
if you let yourself go and open your mind
i'll bet you'd be doing like me
and it ain't so bad


CHORUS


OUTRO: Riff 1 w/ lyrics

say, i do it a lot
i do it a lot
i do it a lot
say, i do it a lot

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From: chris10@ufcc.ufl.edu

Hey Alice in Chains fans!!! This is my first time trying to transcribe a song
so if there are any mistakes please let me know, ok?? E-mail me at:
chris10@ufcc.ufl.edu It would also be nice to hear from some of you to let me
know that all the rewinding of my Dirt tape wasn't in vain. Have fun with it!!


Junkhead by Alice in Chains
Transcribed by Chris Simpkins

Intro

----------------------------------------------------------------------e
----------------------------------------------------------------------B
------5--4-----4-----------------------------------------------------G
------5--4-----4--5----4--3----3--5--------------------------------D
------3--2-----2--5----4--3----3--5--------------------------------A
-------------------3----2--1----1--3--------------------------------E
Repeat 4x


Verse

----------------------------------------------------------------------e
----------------------------------------------------------------------B
----------------------------------------------------------------------G
----------------------------------------------------------------------D
------3--2-----2-----------------------------------------------------A
-------------------3----2--1----1--3---------------------------------E
Repeat 4x (palm mute slightly)

Chorus
(F#,B,A,G)

F#/B/A
Yeahhhh..............
G F#/B/A
What's my drug of choice,
G F#/B/A
Well what have you got?
G F#/B/A
I don't go broke,
G F#/B/A
And I do it alive!


Verse
----------------------------------------------------------------------e
----------------------------------------------------------------------B
------5--4-----4-----------------------------------------------------G
------5--4-----4--5----4--3----3--5--------------------------------D
------3--2-----2--5----4--3----3--5--------------------------------A
-------------------3----2--1----1--3--------------------------------E

The verse goes back to these chords 4x and then to the root notes for the
chords 4x.


Solo

----------------------------------------------------------------------e
----------------------------------------------------------------------B
-----------8-11---11-11-13-11----11-11-13-9----9-8-6-4---------G
-6---6-6-------------------------------------------------------7-5---D
----------------------------------------------------------------------A
----------------------------------------------------------------------E
Repeat 4x

Please let me know if there are any mistakes =)

Later,
Chris

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