The Stranglers - Meninblack

      
 
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 #The Stranglers - Meninblack
 #Tabbed By: Reecy
 #Email: Bushhead81@Hotmail.com
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 #Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
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 #MENINBLACK
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 #Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
 #Date of Transcription: 1st April 2002
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 #There's hardly any guitar in this song, or any chords for that matter! As the keyboard
 #is playing practically single notes throughout with the bass following it,
 #the closest you'll probably get to playing this song on guitar (that's if you'd ever want to,
 #it's hardly a song fit for playing live)is if you play the keyboard notes as 5th chords,
 #if anyone has a better way of transcribing this then please let me know!
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 #the little guitar riff Hugh plays (the only thing that seems to be at normal speed) is:
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 B------------------------------
 
 

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 G------------------------------
 
 

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 D---6--------------------------
 
 

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 A-------7----7-9-7-5-----------
 
 

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 E---------------------7---5----
 
 

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 #intro: B5 E5 B5 E5 (x2)
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 B5        E5   B5     E5   B5     E5   B5    E5 
 We're not here to destroy, we are here to employ
 
 B5 E5 B5 E5 (with guitar riff, x2)
 
 D5      G5      D5       G5        D5    G5          D5     G5       
 We have come to make you function, so we can eat you at our functions
 
 F#5 A5 E5 F5 
     
 F#5 A5     E5   F5        
 We are the meninblack (x3)
 
 B5 E5 B5 E5 (with guitar riff, x2)
 
 B5   E5     B5      E5   B5       E5        B5        E5  
 Information can destroy, so we'll treat you just like toys
 
 B5 E5 B5 E5 (with guitar riff, x2)
 
 D5      G5           D5     G5   D5    G5       D5    G5                 
 Healthy livestock so we can eat, human flesh is porky meat... hehehehehe!
 
 F#5 A5 E5 F5 
     
 F#5 A5     E5   F5        
 We are the meninblack (x3)
 
 D5          A5      G5               D5      A5  E5              
 We don't approve of artificial food, we grow you for our own good
 
 B5    E5 B5           E5     B5      E5       B5      E5  
 First we gave you the wheel, then we made you live to kill
 
 B5 E5 B5 E5 (x2, guitar riff only on second time)
 
 D5     G5         D5      G5    D5 G5      D5   G5  
 So the best stock will survive, we eat you all alive
 
 F#5 A5 E5 F5 
     
 F#5 A5     E5   F5        
 We are the meninblack (x3)
 
 B5  E5     B5   E5   
 We are the meninblack
 
 (repeat until fade)