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Song: No. 13 Baby
Band: Pixies
Bassist: Kim Deal
Album: Doolittle
Verse
x8 x3 x11
G| |---------||--------||-------||---------||---------||
D|4|---------||--------||-------||---------||---------||
A|4|---------||--------||---R---||---------||---------||
E| |-3-3-3-3-||-3------||-------||-----3-3-||-3-3-3-3-||
Pre-Chorus
G| |---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
D|4|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
A|4|-4-4-4-4-|-5-5-5-5-|---------|-4-4-4-4-|-5-5-5-5-|-1-1-1-1-|
E| |---------|---------|-3-3-3-3-|---------|---------|---------|
G| |---------|---------|---------|---------|---------||
D|4|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------||
A|4|-4-4-4-4-|-5-5-5-5-|---------|---------|---------||
E| |---------|---------|-1-1-1-1-|-0-0-0-0-|-3-3-3-3-||
Chorus
x2
G| |--------|--------|--------|-------||---------|---------||
D|4|--------|--------|-1--1-1-|-------||---------|---------||
A|4|-3--3-3-|--------|--------|-1--1--||-4-4-4-4-|-5-5-5-5-||
E| |--------|-3--3-3-|--------|-------||---------|---------||
Order:
verse
pre-chorus
chorus
verse
pre-chorus
chorus (without the second part)
pre-chorus
chorus (to fade out)
thomaspotts801@netscapeonline.co.uk
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Millhouse Wanna Be |
#1 by Millhouse van Houten at Sep 24, 1970 at 3:51 AM EST |
| All i can say when i listen to this song is "Who says Nirvana didn't try to be The Pixies?" | |
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Chase Wanna Be |
#2 by Chase Allen at Apr 15, 1971 at 3:58 PM EST |
| It's awesome isn't? The outro is so sublime it really makes discussion of the lyric seem superfluous. I am a longtime Pixies fan and have every album but this song remains my favourite, mainly because of the ending. One of those things that it's hard to put into words but I can see from the other comments here that I'm not the only one. The entire lyric might as well be nonsense (not saying it is, I'm just ignorant) but as far as I'm concerned the emotional content is well captured by the line "I'm in a state" | |
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Jonathan Rhythm Player |
#3 by Jonathan Matuszyk at Jul 24, 1974 at 6:02 PM EST |
| Here's FB on "No. 13 Baby" from NME in 1989: "This is a collage of images of when I was growing up in Los Angeles. Number 13 traditionally means bad luck, but in America, especially in the 60’s among bikers and chicanos, the number 13 is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet: M for marijuana. It’s a really goofy sub culture, but it’s kinda funny, and even today you can see it spray-painted on walls ‘The Meter Boys Number 13’. So it is about a Mexican girl or a Samoan girl, a boyish, sexual, adolescent collage of Southern California living." I always wondered what the whole number 13 was about. | |
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jem Rhythm Player |
#4 by jem stone at Dec 21, 1976 at 10:20 AM EST |
| Hmm, I agree with gilbag but I think it's about Frank's love for Polynesian or Hawaiian girls. There is imagery of a luau: "stand close to the fire when they light the pig." I think the Spanish thrown in is just typical Frank Black lyrics. I don't think it has any significance. There are many Pixies songs where Spanish or Spanish-type lyrics are thrown in without real significance. Take Debaser: Un Chien Andalusia is take from the film Un Chien Andalou, but changed and pronounced phonetically in Spanish. Also Crackity Jones: "la muneca," etc. Also some songs from Come On Pilgrim, and I'm sure that there are many more with Spanish thrown in randomly. | |
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Brian Lead Player |
#5 by Brian Priddis at May 17, 1981 at 6:16 PM EST |
| the way it sounds, it could just be about a girl he finds attractive. with brown eyes and a tattooed tit. hell, it could be about sex they had or something. | |
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pharaoh shane Rhythm Player |
#6 by pharaoh shane at Aug 17, 1981 at 12:55 AM EST |
| Best song they ever made. Black Francis is a legend for writing such a wicked song and that outro almost brings me to tears. Beautiful! | |
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Andrew Average |
#7 by Andrew Metcalfe at Feb 23, 1988 at 2:40 PM EST |
| this song meant so much to me that i actually went and got " number 13" tatoo'ed on the side of my breast. no lie. | |
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Ryan Wanna Be |
#8 by Ryan . at Dec 20, 1992 at 12:02 AM EST |
| Oh yeah, and the shore. Seems Hawaiian to me. | |
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Cuboctahedron Wanna Be |
#9 by Cuboctahedron at Nov 17, 1996 at 2:29 PM EST |
| This song is an acquired taste, but it really stands out from other Pixies song in that it has a wonderful instrumental part which is quite melodic and incongrous with the harsh singning of the verses. Great song, but I can't help much with the meaning, except that I agree with the brown skinned/hawaian thing. btw, Viva la loma rica = the rich hill lives, whatever than means? | |
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mike Rhythm Player |
#10 by mike guerino at Oct 16, 1997 at 4:09 PM EST |
| It was "Here Comes Your Man" which introduced me to the Pixies, but it was "#13 Baby" that became my favorite song by them. | |
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123 Wanna Be |
#11 by 123 123 at Mar 25, 2003 at 6:56 AM EST |
| Yes, that outro truly is fantastic. | |
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Simon Average |
#12 by Simon Donovan at Oct 9, 2005 at 6:48 AM EST |
| Hell's Angels also often had "13" tattoos, or stitched on the back of their jackets. 13 = M for Marijuana. It was just a sign to other like minded people. | |
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