Nimrods Son Bass Tab

Come On Pilgrim Tabs:

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Artist: Pixies
Song: Nimrod's Son
Album: Come On Pilgrim
Bassist: Kim Deal

This is a correction to the original posted which was woefully wrong. Sorry, but it was :)

Verse:
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|--4--------------|
|-----4--3--2--0--| x10

Tacet

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|----------2-2-2-2---------3-3-3-3--|
|--2-2-2-2---------3-3-3-3----------| x1

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|--4--------------|
|-----3--2--1--0--| x1

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|------------------2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3--|
|--2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3------------------| x1

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|--4--------------|
|-----3--2--1--0--| x2

Chorus:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--2--|x1

Tacet

Ending:
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|--4--5--2--4--4--5--2--4--4--5--2--4--4--5--2--4--4--|
|-----------------------------------------------------|

Play the whole thing through twice for the whole song.


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/p/pixies,_the/103072.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Zach250 Wanna Be	#1 by Zach250 at Dec 4, 1970 at 2:36 PM EST
	In a way it´s about guy devoting life to pleasures, and suffering in afterworld " the joke has come upon me ", screams (from hell? )...

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#2 by Ryan Ell at Dec 22, 1970 at 8:25 AM EST
	Incest is a common theme in early Pixies stuff and this song is probably influenced by "Odeipus". Both the motorcycle rider and Opedipus discover they are products and participants of incest. The lyrics are pretty clear; the rider realizes that he has been damned since birth and his whole life is a joke. The "Ha-ha Ha-ha" at the end of the song isn't a happy laugh, but an insane and disturbing one. Sad stuff. : - ( Good song though. The Holiday Song is the sequal to it, I guess.

No Picture Jake Wanna Be	#3 by Jake Wilson at Apr 15, 1971 at 7:45 PM EST
	YOU ARE THE SON OF A MOTHER FUCKER. Haha...literally.

No Picture Swann Average	#4 by Swann at Dec 15, 1974 at 4:51 AM EST
	LevitateMe: Were you at the Braxton Academy show? I've got that CD from PixiesDiscs. =) JJoe: I don't think Frank is really an incest kid. He wouldn't be too bright if he was. :P

No Picture Travis Average	#5 by Travis Nichols at Mar 11, 1980 at 1:05 AM EST
	This song reminds me of Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said," which is incredible and features a similarly creepy situation. I'm wondering if this song doesn't have something to do with the book, since in the book a man and his sister -- not mother -- have relations with produce a child. The child grows up, goes to cop-school and, if I'm not mistaken, gets in a motorcycle accident that leaves him wheel-chair bound. Perhaps the song is about that child? (Incidentally, the kid is barely mentioned in the book. He garners all of one paragraph, right at the end. But it's an awesome book.)

No Picture anthony Wanna Be	#6 by anthony danby at Sep 4, 1988 at 5:32 AM EST
	This song made me fall in love with the pixies - so catchy - heard it once and have never stopped singing it! Absolutely fandabbydozey! Love it!

No Picture Tyler Wanna Be	#7 by Tyler Epperson at Apr 18, 1989 at 6:58 AM EST
	I'm pretty sure that his lyrics tend to stem far deeper than our interpretations. I realy don't think this song is just about t his little story he threw together about some dude whose mother is also his grandmother. I'm sure its biblical or mythilogical, and I'm pretty sure there's some crazy reason that he decided to sing about it.

No Picture Magna Wanna Be	#8 by Magna at Dec 14, 1991 at 3:16 PM EST
	oh shit, the mother fucker wasnt an insult it must be real. shit never really thought bout that

No Picture Berenice Average	#9 by Berenice Issaris at Nov 29, 1999 at 8:20 PM EST
	Yep, yep, his dad was a motherbanger. Anyway, I asked my teacher who Nimrod was in the bible, and all she told me that he was a famous hunter that impressed God. Is there a story (or passage or whatever you call it) in the good book that has to do with Nimrod banging his mom?