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About Mr Brown Bass Tab

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Tabbed By BgRed311™
For My Boy Mitch†

Verse
1|-----------------------------2--5--2--------------|
2|-----0--0--1--2--5--5--2--5-----------3--3--5-----|
3|--3-----------------------------------------------|
4|-----------------------------------------------3--|
5|--------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
1|--------------------------|
2|--3--4--5-----5-----5-----|
3|-----------3-----2-----0--|
4|--------------------------|
5|--------------------------|

~*~Song Structure~*~
If You Know The Song Then You Should Be Able To Get It. Quite Alot Of The Verse And A Lttle 
Chorus.
~*~End~*~

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About Mr Brown Bass Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Matt Average	#1 by Matt Nev at Apr 3, 1970 at 9:18 PM EST
	There's a Bob Marley song that goes "Mr. Brown is a clown who rides to town in a coffin." i know O.A.R. is heavily influenced by reggae... anybody see a connection?

No Picture Connor Rhythm Player	#2 by Connor Fowler at Jul 27, 1970 at 12:57 PM EST
	MR BROWN IS NOT EQUAL TO MICHAEL! AH HHH

No Picture Cody Professional	#3 by Cody Noneyobizones at Aug 1, 1970 at 10:07 PM EST
	Shewy pretty much got it right- his name was Michael Brown and I think he died around 1997 or so. The conservative community interpritation is very nice, though.

No Picture rockerchica1989 Wanna Be	#4 by rockerchica1989 at May 20, 1971 at 7:49 AM EST
	they wrote it when they were 16...

No Picture Nicky Rhythm Player	#5 by Nicky Ramone at Sep 6, 1973 at 7:00 AM EST
	The song is written about not political issues of any kind really, but like trippinbtm said, hypocracy. but its defintiley not written about their friend Michael. On Live at Madison Square Garden, Marc specifically says at the intro to this song that they've been playing music for 10 years now, starting out in a basement with just a few people watching. Michael was one of their friends who often watched them play their songs, and About Mr. Brown was his favorite song. so to all of you who are saying they wrote it for him, you're totally wrong. its just dedicated to Michael because it was his favorite song.

No Picture Will Average	#6 by Will Yost at Nov 19, 1975 at 9:26 PM EST
	About Mr. Brown is DEDICATED to one of the band's friends that passed away. This was his favorite song. No, his last name was not Brown. He just liked it a lot.

No Picture Dave Average	#7 by Dave at Mar 3, 1978 at 8:56 PM EST
	I think it's about hypocracy more than just conservatives. Like, Mr Brown tries to set up laws for his daughter, but she disobeys and does her thing. He disapproves of what his brother did, so he chases him out...but man, it's his brother, you can't turn your back on him like that. It pisses his bro off, who chases him with a knife, angry and rejected, and maybe vengeful of his brother's hypocricy. And then, Mr Brown is asked what he does when no one's looking at him, when the parade is canceled. He wants the show to go his way, but it never can, because we all have our own lives to lead, and Mr Brown isn't perfect either. Yet he tries to act high and mighty, putting his will on others.

No Picture Alberto Average	#8 by Alberto Guglielmino at Sep 16, 1978 at 8:09 PM EST
	Dukedude, you are as bad as wheels is. Wheels is wrong. Go listen to the version of it on 34th and 8th (this quote is actually located at the end of Dareh Meyod): "This next song right here is, and always will be for our good friend Micheal. You know we miss him, and you know we love him, and if you guys are real loud, micheal will come from the heavens above and relax with us. This is his song." By all accounts, the members of O.A.R. don't like writing political songs, and avoid it with only a couple of major exceptions, 52-50 and arguably Mr. Moon being the biggest. This song isn't political like how wheels broke it down. it's not some big liberal rant. oldmantime1189 has it as close as it can be summed up.

No Picture Zach Average	#9 by Zach at Feb 20, 1979 at 8:03 AM EST
	haha - Dude, you're saying that the song was written about a person who wouldn't sell cigaretts to them. Seeing a metaphor here? Maybe, after trying to buy them, and not being able to, they take a step back. Look at the bigger picture. You have these kids, young repressed, 'rebels' that want no laws and are anti-rules and stuff. This store clerk is just another person who is enforcing rules, the rules that they want to go without. I agree with the intelligent statements, above. From Wheeler and from Trippinbtm. The inspiration may have come from this incident with the store clerk, but no doubt it's about something MUCH bigger. Clearly. Like how big and mighty is this guy (store clerk, father, government) setting rules for us? How perfect is he? He isn't perfect. So actually, saying "YOU ARE ALL WRONG..." shows you clearly can't make a simple connection with the above statements from Wheeler and the like and your own thoughts.

No Picture [ash] Wanna Be	#10 by [ash] at Apr 29, 1982 at 11:35 PM EST
	Shit wheels, that was pretty deep. I just thout it was about some guy with split personalities talking to himself.

No Picture Cliff Lead Player	#11 by Cliff Fox at Jul 19, 1983 at 9:51 PM EST
	I think your are pretty close with that one wheels, but you did type it like a bastard

No Picture Dylan Average	#12 by Dylan Enis at Jun 29, 1987 at 2:03 PM EST
	I think this song was written about one of the band's friends who passed away. Not sure on this one though but i think that may be what it said in the booklet for any time now

No Picture aLLaN Rhythm Player	#13 by aLLaN at Nov 20, 1988 at 7:23 AM EST
	And I cant find the very last verse anywhere. "Hey Mr. Brown how about your mother......"

No Picture FUCK Average	#14 by FUCK at Oct 14, 1989 at 12:35 PM EST
	I don't really want to try to guess on this one but I enjoy Of A Revolution and saw them in concert at Georgia State a while ago. It was amazing and so is all of O.A.R.

No Picture Tyler Wanna Be	#15 by Tyler Wood at Nov 26, 1990 at 11:10 PM EST
	talk about an awesome song

No Picture John Rhythm Player	#16 by John McElyea at Feb 11, 1996 at 9:39 PM EST
	"this song IS and ALWAYS will be for our good friend Micheal, we miss him and we love him and this is his song forever." if you listen to all there live cd's this is what Marc(k?) says when hes about to play this song. well basically the same thing each time.

No Picture jon Wanna Be	#17 by jon jeffreys at May 22, 1996 at 6:18 AM EST
	I don't know why but I think this song is about a transient...a bum. They're all so generalized these days, it's like they don't have identities, so it's all Mr. Smith, or Mr. Brown, or that bum, you know? I think the singer is talking to one of these bums, and he's like, hey do you remember your family? Do you remember when you had an identity, and you had brothers, sisters, a mother, daughters, whatever. Do you know what these people are up to these days? You try and tell me about all this stuff, but "what can you say about tomorrow? what can you tell me about my life?" The more I listen to this song, that's what I get out of it...just try listening to it with that perspective and see what you think.

No Picture Cliff Lead Player	#18 by Cliff Fox at Oct 9, 1997 at 10:25 AM EST
	this song reminds me of my father...like wheels said personification for the conservative community, except i think it is more of a "fuck you", or a "why don't you give it up/understand" to anyone who has tryed to control you in your life

No Picture jUsT_tHe_PoStAl Wanna Be	#19 by jUsT_tHe_PoStAl_SeRvIcE at Jul 14, 2000 at 10:36 AM EST
	Dukedude, you are as bad as wheels is. Wheels is wrong. Go listen to the version of it on 34th and 8th (this quote is actually located at the end of Dareh Meyod): "This next song right here is, and always will be for our good friend Micheal. You know we miss him, and you know we love him, and if you guys are real loud, micheal will come from the heavens above and relax with us. This is his song." By all accounts, the members of O.A.R. don't like writing political songs, and avoid it with only a couple of major exceptions, 52-50 and arguably Mr. Moon being the biggest. This song isn't political like how wheels broke it down. it's not some big liberal rant. oldmantime1189 has it as close as it can be summed up.

No Picture Jared Wanna Be	#20 by Jared at Aug 23, 2000 at 2:01 AM EST
	Check this guys...i saw oar last saturday and got to talk to the bassist after the show..i asked him about this song and he said id have to ask marc...i then asked if it was about a friend or what...and he said it was about a close friend but it was really complicated and something he didnt feel right talking about....

No Picture Bodhi Average	#21 by Bodhi Bassist at Sep 17, 2000 at 2:49 AM EST
	YOUR ALL WRONG.....ITS DEDICATED TO THEIR CLOSE FRIEND MICHEAL....AND its written about a convienence store clerk who wouldnt sell them cigarettes. "This song is and always will be for a good man, Mike. We miss him and we love him and this one is his forever." Mike's favorite song was About Mr. Brown, the song is not about him.

No Picture Mangus Average	#22 by Mangus Hung at Aug 26, 2002 at 8:36 PM EST
	wheels said it perfectly.

No Picture isaac Average	#23 by isaac morales at Oct 2, 2004 at 3:19 AM EST
	the whole brother thing is like you've done some messed up stuff in your life, how can you say anything about mine? what kind of person chases thier brother out of the house? i mean, come on, he's your brother, you know?

No Picture Taylor Average	#24 by Taylor Enokson at Jul 27, 2006 at 12:58 AM EST
	But explain this line to me. "While your chasing him out of the front door, he's chasing you with a butcher knife".