311 - Welcome

      
 
 Performed by 311
 From the album "Music" on Capricorn Records
 Music by: N. Hexum & C. Sexton
 Lyrics by: N. Hexum & D. Martinez
 (c) 1993 Allegiance Music/Hydroponic Music BMI

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 Tabbed by: Jeff Terrell/Blowfish (jjt@ecst.csuchico.edu)
 Christopher Comeaux (Christopher.Comeaux@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
 Additions/Corrections by: Michael Slusarz (slusarz@ucsu.colorado.edu)
 Kevin Cross (reefer@mail.xmission.com)
 Mr. Niel (borderg@ocps.k12.fl.us)
 The 311 Guitar Archive -- http://chromosome.colorado.edu/311archive/
 
 Intro/Riff 1 (Clean):
 =====================
 A5 G5 A5 G5 A5 G5 A5 (F5) E5 
          

 1:-5-5-5-5-3--5-5-5-3-3--5-5-5-5-3--5-5--5-5-5--4-
 2:-5-5-5-5-3--5-5-5-3-3--5-5-5-5-3--5-5--6-6-6--5-
 3:------------------------------------------------
 4:------------------------------------------------
 5:------------------------------------------------
 6:------------------------------------------------
 

 **
 
 Bass plays Riff 2 over Intro.
 2nd time through Riff 1, play the following (w/Distortion) at **:
 
 F5 E5 
   

 1:------
 2:------
 3:------
 

 4:-3--2-
 5:-3--2-
 6:-1--0-
 
 Riff 2 (w/Distortion):
 ======================
 N.C.

 1:----------------------------------------
 2:----------------------------------------
 3:----------------------------------------
 4:----------------------------------------
 5:-----3----------------------3-----------
 6:-3-5---0-3-5-0-3-5-0-3--3-5---0-3-5-3-3-
 

 
 N.C. F5 E5

 1:----------------------------------------
 2:----------------------------------------
 3:----------------------------------------
 4:-----------------------------------3--2-
 5:-----3----------------------3------3--2-
 6:-3-5---0-3-5-0-3-5-0-3--3-5---0-3--1--0-
 

 
 Riff 3 (w/Distortion):
 ======================
 N.C.

 1:-----------------------------------------------------------------
 2:-----------------------------------------------------------------
 3:------------------------------------6-6--------------------------
 4:----------------------------------------5-5-6-6------------------
 5:---------3//--------3//----------3--------------5-5----------3//-
 6:-3h5-3h5------3h5-5------3h5-3h5---------------------3h5-3h5-----
 

 
 Riff 4 (w/Distortion):
 ======================
 E5/B C5 B5 E5 C5 B5 E5/B C5 B5 N.C.

 1:------------------------------------------------------------------
 2:------------------------------------------------------------------
 3:-9----------------5--4---9----------------------------------------
 4:-9---10--9-9---2--5--4---9---10--9-9------------------------------
 5:-7---10--9-9---2--3--2---7---10--9-9-------------2-0--------------
 6:-7----8--7-7---0---------7----8--7-7--3-5-3-5-3-------3-5-0-0-3-0-
 

 
 Ending (Clean):
 ===============
 (Am) 
  

 1:------------12-
 2:---------13----
 3:------14-------
 4:---14----------
 5:-0-------------
 6:---------------
 

 
 Lyrics/Song Structure:
 ======================
 ---> Play Intro (x1)
 ---> Play Riff 1 over:
 Groove as your soul sings
 Spinnin' all around as we dust a melody
 Groove as your soul sings
 Spinnin' all around
 ---> Play Riff 2 over:
 Welcome to this groove you can move right
 We gonna take you higher not caught in the quagmire
 I can't survive on a stupid nine to five
 I'd rather be poor writing tunes livin' on a commune
 Kickin' it with my brothers and significant others
 Life in pursuit of only money we think it's funny
 The only thing that money it could ever bring to me would be some gifts
 For my friends follow me now trips for my family
 ---> Play Riff 3 over:
 The only thing I love is freedom the people around me I need 'em
 I'd like to build the world a spliff but like I said I said
 You could never get me interested in dreams of wealth
 Myself my birthday happens to land on April twelfth wack
 ---> Play Riff 2 over:
 A Coney Island of the mind it's mine
 I swipe the sweets strip the beats in the sunshine
 Loco holmes I stroll because I'm thinking
 A tone poem alone is love medicine
 Then the demon spring revolution in my spirit
 Here it is and I will kill with it
 Traveling head spinnin' from the medicine
 Illusions fadin' out and comin' on again
 ---> Play Riff 2 over:
 Unwind your mind then find entire minutes
 Abstract the tract of sight day breaking in it
 Doles out my share of the world ocean and sun
 Rising with whirling motion
 ---> Play Riff 4 (x1)
 ---> Play Riff 4 over:
 I fought kicked and screamed my way to getting born now I feel
 Warm and I say come on the night won't save anyone
 Won't you roam we've grown so we can write
 Again our soul select its own way for the travellin'
 ---> Play Riff 2 over:
 We're here we're breathing and we wanna keep our blood running
 So we're gonna keep gunning till the next homecoming
 I like the boogie to the bang bang boogie say up
 Jump the boogie to the bang bang come on
 ---> Play Intro (x1)
 ---> Play Ending