Rat Poison Bass Tab

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Bass #1: 
G-|------- 
D-|------- 
A-|-==>8-- 
E-|------- 

G-|-------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A-|--------------------------------==>8-------------------------------| 
E-|---1---1-----1-1-1---1---3-----4-----1---1-----1-1-1---1---3-----4-| 

G-|-------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A-|--------------------------------==>8-------------------------------| 
E-|-1-1---1-----1-1-1---1---3-----4-----1---1-----1-1-1---1---3-----4-| 
  
Play this once, and all other start playing with 
G-|-------------- 
D-|-------------- 
A-|-------------- 
E-|-4-1---1-etc.- 

"IgotIgotIgotIgotta..." 

Lead guitar: 

E-|---------------------------------| 
B-|---------------------------------| 
G-|-1-------1-----1-------0-------1-| 
D-|---3-3-3---3-3---3---3-----------| 
A-|---------------------------------| 
E-|---------------------------------| 

Bass #2: 
G-|---------------------------------| 
D-|---------------------------------| 
A-|---------------------------------| 
E-|-1-----------4-------3---------4-| 
Bass is covered with synth sounds 
(like something liquid falls)

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/p/prodigy/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture mike Average	#1 by mike rojas at Aug 15, 2007 at 3:51 PM EST
	I see this song as being partly autobiographical, although Patti Smith isn't black. I think she's using the word 'nigger' as someone who is, as she says, 'outside of society,' and something of a rebel ('In my heart I am an American artist') and she does what she wants - 'I was lost in a valley of pleasure... and the cost didn't matter to me, the cost was to be outside of society.' Then she references Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ, Grandma and Jackson Pollock (an artist) and how they were all 'niggers,' or outcasts. I d/k what the Moslem reference is about unless she was Moslem. I know during that time in the 70s that Islam became more widespread, particularly among African Americans so maybe she is talking about a black woman. Brilliant song.