GREEN DAY - "2000 Light Years Away" Tablature

e: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 09:57:08 -0600
From: Stephen Dranger <sdranger@athena.valpo.edu>
Subject: TAB

Artist: Green Day
Song: 2000 Light Years Away
Album: Kerplunk!

Correction by Stephen Dranger
sdranger@athena.valpo.edu

I decided to correct and format the existing TAB of this song.
Mucho thanks to miller6@aol.com. Follows is the corrected TAB,
plus some bass TAB.

From: miller6@aol.com
Subject: 2000_light_years_away.tab


Here is yet another awesome Green Day song from Kerplunk! that was
posted in an ftp, but it was missing key parts needed to play the
song, so I have added them so you can play the whole song. This is
NOT IN STANDARD TUNING!!! If you want to play it right you HAVE TO
tune down a half step, because the E is open. NOTE: You do tune down
one half-step, BUT you still play the chord names as if you were in
standard tuning:

B: x244xx
E: 022xxx
F#: 244xxx
etc...
(looks best in Courier)



Intro: B B F# G# F# Play that 4x for intro


Intro and Verse bass TAB looks like this:

-----------------------------|----------------------------|
-----------------------------|---------4------------------|
-2--2--2-----------------2-4-|-2--2--2----------------2-4-| repeat,etc.
---------2--4---2-2--2-4-----|------------4---2-2--2-4----|


Verse 1:

B F#

I sit alone in my bedroom

B F#

Staring at the walls

B F#

I've been up all damn night long

B F#

My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning



Chorus:

G# B

I hold my breath and close my eyes ----play-this-twice--------

G# F# ---------------------------

And dream about her... --3\4-4-4--3\4-4-4---------

E F# *===> --3\4-4-4--3\4-4-4---------

Cause she's 2000 light years away --1\2-2-2--1\2-2-2---------

G# B ---------------------------

She holds my malakite so tight so

A F#

Never let go...

E F# B B F# G# F# (4x)

Cause she's 2000 light years away



Verse 2:

B F#

I sit outside and watch the sunrise

B F#

Lookout as far as I can

B F#

I can't see her, but in the distance

B F#

I hear some laughter, we laugh together



Chorus


"Solo":

Bass plays alone w/ guitar feedback in background 4x
Last time guitar plays lick:

Eb: |------7-----------|
Bb: |---/7---7---------|
Gb: |----------9/11----|
Db: |---------------9/-|

enter lyrics w/bass only:

I sit alone in my bedroom
Staring at the walls
I've been up all damn night long *==> harmonics down: E: -21//////////-
My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning

Chorus



zach