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Artist: Mustard Plug
Song: The Freshman (Verve Pipe Cover)
Label: Hopeless Records
Album: THE FRESHMEN / YOU CD SINGLE (Sold at Mustard Plug Shows)
Year: 1998
This is a really cool song- it's really easy- there are a few different
fingerings you can use- but this is probably the easiest. - Original Tab Artist
EDITED AND CORRECTED VERSION: Just making life a bit easier for everyone...the order
that this
song is played in is beneath the Outro. -SkankinRoach (CanORaid@hotmail.com)
Intro Part 1
G|------------------------------|
D|-----3----3-------------------|
A|------------1----1-5----3-1-1-|
E|------------------------------|
Intro Part 2
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-33333333----------------------------|
A|---------11111111-555555-33-11111111-|
E|-------------------------------------|
Verse part 1 (Same tempo as Intro Part 2)
G|--------------------------------------|
D|-3------------------------------------|
A|---------11111111-555555-33-11111111--|
E|--------------------------------------|
Verse part 2
G|----22-33-55---------------------------------|
D|-33------------00----------------------------|
A|-------------1----1-1-555555-33-11111111-----|
E|---------------------------------------------|
Pre Chorus
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|-5555-3333-11111111--------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Chorus "For the life of me"
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-33333333----------------------------|
A|---------11111111-555555-33-11111111-|
E|-------------------------------------|
Bridge
G|--------------------------------|
D|-----------33-------------------|
A|-0000-1111----3-333-------------|
E|--------------------------------|
Outro
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-3---3---3---3-----------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
Song Order
Intro Part 1 (0:00) x1
Intro Part 2 (0:09) x3
Verse Part 1 (0:26) x1
Verse Part 2 (0:31) x2
Pre Chorus (0:38) x4
Chorus (0:49) x2
Bridge (1:00) x2
Verse Part 1 (1:10) x1
Verse Part 2 (1:16) x1
Pre Chorus (1:22) x4
Chorus (1:33) x2
Bridge (1:44) x4
Verse Part 1 (1:54) x1
Verse Part 2 (2:00) x1
Pre Chorus (2:06) x4
Chorus (2:16) x4
Outro (2:38) x1
Bridge (2:44) x2
Chorus (2:54) x2
Outro (3:05) x1
Listen to the song for timing!!
Tab Corrected By SkankinRoach (CanORaid@hotmail.com)
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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Sinan90 Average |
#1 by Sinan90 at Dec 2, 1982 at 11:26 AM EST |
| this is a song about a girl who was raped and the sorrow and guilt that was untold to her. she's thinking about having an abortion but can't come to grips of going through with it because of the repsonsibilities of life. | |
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Guide Professional |
#2 by Guide Manf at Sep 12, 1987 at 12:12 PM EST |
| I remember this song quite vividly from my young adulthood. I remember my mother, older sister and I were driving around town and this song came on the radio. I started to sing it and my mother started to cry. She said that the song was about abortion and suicide and that I was too young to sing a song like it. I never quite understood all the words, untill now. I wonder if this song was inspired by true events that took place in the authors life or his personal opinions on abortion... | |
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Jonathan Wanna Be |
#3 by Jonathan Takish at Apr 13, 1988 at 1:34 AM EST |
| Really, I always thought this song was about a breakup... then again, im still young and never really listened deep into the lyrics... but damn if i wont skank to it. | |
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patrick Average |
#4 by patrick wilson at Feb 3, 1989 at 6:40 AM EST |
| "Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice, now" REFERS TO STOPPING A MARRIGE AND HAVING AN ABORTION.... | |
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darin Average |
#5 by darin ? at Mar 9, 1995 at 8:13 AM EST |
| In 2001, Brian Vander Ark explained what the song means to him: WHEN I WAS YOUNG I KNEW EVERYTHING. We all think we know everything at a young age. I thought I did. I realize I didn't know sh*t until I was 36. AND SHE, A PUNK, WHO RARELY TOOK ADVICE. How many people do we know like that? NOW I'M GUILT STRICKEN, SOBBING, WITH MY HEAD ON THE FLOOR. Something happened, that caused this reaction, but I wouldn't want to give that away this early in the song, so let's through in an some ambiguity: STOP A BABY'S BREATH, AND A SHOE FULL OF RICE, NO. First of all, forget the NO. Stop a baby's breath is just that. Abort the baby. A shoe full of rice is a result of a wedding. So - stop a baby's breath AND then you stop a wedding. She's pregnant, get her to abort, and then there's no wedding. And you know what? I CAN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE, CAUSE SHE WAS TOUCHING HER FACE. When I wrote this song, The Divinyls had a song out called I touch myself. The TV was on, she was touching her face in the video. Very sexy. So, I can't be held responsible because she was trying to be sexy, trying to seduce me, etc. I WON'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE, SHE FELL IN LOVE IN THE FIRST PLACE. I didn't tell her to fall in love. FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT MADE US THINK THAT WE WERE WISE, AND WE'D NEVER COMPROMISE. What was I thinking back then. Who am I to put a girl though that? Why was I unable to compromise? Guilty feelings. FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CANNOT BELIEVE WE'D EVER DIE FOR THESE SINS, WE WERE MERELY FRESHMEN. We were just kids, let it go, we all make mistakes, etc. MY BEST FRIEND TOOK A WEEKS VACATION TO FORGET HER. He needed to get away because of what happened. HIS GIRL TOOK A WEEK'S WORTH OF VALIUM AND SLEPT. This is why this song is not that strong literally - it's confusing. HIS girl is MY girl. The same girl that had the abortion has now killed herself. NOW HE'S GUILT-STRICKEN SOBBING WITH HIS HEAD ON THE FLOOR, THINKS ABOUT HER NOW AND HOW HE NEVER REALLY WEPT HE SAYS. He has the same guilty feelings that I do about the abortion and death. WE TRIED TO WASH OUR HANDS OF ALL OF THIS, WE NEVER TALK OF OUR LACKING RELATIONSHIPS. We rarely spoke after the incident - we just tried to forget it. We never spoke of her or the fact that we can't have a decent relationship with anyone since then. WE FELL THROUGH THE ICE WHEN WE TRIED NOT TO SLIP. No matter how careful you might be, there are other perils out there. The girl is real, the abortion is real. The death is not. It's poetic license--to make the story more interesting. | |
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Ciaran Average |
#6 by Ciaran Mc Nally at Sep 18, 1997 at 3:36 PM EST |
| i love this song, and think its so sad, but heres the thing, i've listened to this and the original, and i can't tell a difference, it may just be the cold meds i'm on right now, but i feel like i'm missing something, can anyone like, tell me the difference? | |
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Roxie Wanna Be |
#7 by Roxie Ramos at Sep 20, 1997 at 8:47 PM EST |
| "my best friend took a week's vacation to forget her" she wasn't raped, it was consensual....she had the abortion....made her so depressed she killed herself | |
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Marcos Professional |
#8 by Marcos Prieto at Sep 8, 1998 at 2:02 PM EST |
| Rice is commonly thrown at the bride and groom and the end of the ceremony and baby's breath is often used in the brides bouquet because it has some type of significance, but I can remember what it means. My favorite lines from this song have to be "My best friend took a weeks vacation to forget her His girl took a weeks worth of valium and slept", becuase is shows two contrasts in coping with a situation. | |
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Skye Average |
#9 by Skye at Oct 11, 2006 at 8:38 PM EST |
| Hey, anyone have any theories on the shoe full of rice deal? I think it's just about the abortion and how the kids had to cope with it, I don't really see the suicide part, I just see the girl getting pregnant, and none of them really know how to deal with it, so they got an abortion and then delt with it afterwards. | |
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