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      Drug Test by Yo La Tengo
Album: President Yo La Tengo

Bass Intro is just plucked G and A:
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
|G G G G G G G A| (x4)

Chords:
Intro:
| D Em | G | (x2)

Verse:
|A               |G                   | D | D |
  Ate a left-over steak for breakfast
|A            |G                      | D | D |       
  Watching the sun go down
|A                  |G                 
  and I’ll be lying awake till dawn now
|D                |G
  I’m not ready to face that
|D                |G             |A      
  I’m not ready to face up baby today
|G                 
  I wish I was high

Chorus:
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Frightened of nothing
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Smarter than nobody
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Now I’m wastin away
|D     Em | G                           |     


|A                |G                   | D | D |
  I think of the things that matter
|A                  |G                 | D | D |
  And I think of the things that don't
|A           |G
  Whatever it is no matter
|D                  |G
  I hate feeling the way I feel
|D                  |G            |A  
  I hate feeeling the way I feel today
|G                 
  I wish I was high

Chorus:
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Frightened of nothing
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Smarter than nobody
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Now I’m wastin away
|D     Em | G A |
| A | (x8, with bass soloing and dissonant guitar)
|D     Em | G
|D     Em | G


|A       |G                          | D | D |
  I see myself with headphones on
|A                |G 
  I'm listening to Wake of the Flood
|A                |G
  I'm listening to Wake of the Flood and I’m
Chorus:
|D     Em | G                           |     
high             Frightened of nothing
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Smarter than nobody
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Now I’m wastin away
|D     Em | G                           |     
                                and I’m
|D     Em | G                           |     
high             Frightened of nothing
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 Smarter than nobody
|D     Em | G                           |     
                 and I’m wastin away

| A |  (x8 with G G G A bass + dissonant guitar)

|D     Em | G |      
    

Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/yo_la_tengo/drug_test_chords_1775726

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