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Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Song: If You Have To Ask
 Album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Tab by: Mike Davies & Robin Taylor
E-mail: DaBassist@flea.co.uk

Dropped 'D' tuning.


Verse.
G||-------------------------|----------------------|
D||-------------------------|----------------------|
A||------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0-----------|
D||-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5--5-/17-|

G|-------------------------|----------------------|
D|-------------------------|----------------------|
A|------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0----2-3----|
D|-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5------5--|

G|-------------------------|----------------------|
D|-------------------------|----------------------|
A|------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0-----------|
D|-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5--5-/17-|

G|-------------------------|----------------------||
D|-------------------------|----------------------||
A|------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0----2-3-4-5||
D|-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5---------||  X2
                                                     


Chorus.
G||----2/3------------------|----2/3----------3p0--5----|
D||--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------0h1--4h5-----------|
A||-3-------------------3-1-|-3-----------------------6-|
D||-------------------------|---------------------------|

G|----2/3------------------|----2/3------------------|
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------0h1--------------|
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3-----------------------|
D|-------------------------|------------0-1--3--4--5-|

G|----2/3------------------|----2/3-0-8-9--0-2-3------|
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|------------------------1-|
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3--------------------3---|
D|-------------------------|--------------------------|

G|----2/3------------------|--------||
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------||
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3----1-||
D|-------------------------|--------||

Play Verse X2 again...

Chorus 2.
G||----2/3------------------|----2/3----------------|
D||--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------0h1-3--4--5----|
A||-3-------------------3-1-|-3-------------------1-|
D||-------------------------|-----------------------|

G|----2/3------------------|----2/3-------3-3-------|
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------0h1-------1-----|
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3----------0-----------|
D|-------------------------|---------------------1/-|

G|----2/3------------------|----2/3-----0-8--9--10-|
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|--------0h1-------------|
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3----------------------|
D|-------------------------|------------------------|

G|----2/3------------------|-----------||
D|--------0h1--4/5-0h1-----|------1----||
A|-3-------------------3-1-|-3-------1-||
D|-------------------------|-----------||



Middle.
G||---------------------------------||
D||-5----4----3---------1---------0-||
A||----------------3---------1------||
D||---------------------------------||   X2

G||----------------------------------|----------|
D||-5---x4---x3---------x1--------x0-|----------|
A||---------------x3x3-------x1------|----------|
D||----------------------------------|-0-0-1--2-|

G|----------------------------------|----------||
D|-5---x4---x3---------x1--------x0-|----------||
A|---------------x3x3-------x1------|----------||
D|----------------------------------|---/17---||


Play Verse X2 again...

G||-------------------------|----------------------|
D||-------------------------|----------------------|
A||------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0-----------|
D||-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5--5-/17-|

G|-------------------------|----------------------|
D|-------------------------|----------------------|
A|------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0----2-3----|
D|-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5------5--|

G|-------------------------|----------------------||
D|-------------------------|----------------------||
A|------5p3-0------5p3-0---|------5p3-0-----------||
D|-0----------5----------3-|-0----------5--5-5----|| 

End.
G||----------------0h2----5-0-4-5-|---------------------||
D||--------------------3----------|-3------3------------||
A||------5p3-0--------------------|----3h5----5--0h3----||
D||-0----------5------------------|-------------------0-||


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