Violent Femmes Color me Once Lyrics:
guitar chords: wtorres@bucknell.edu
bass tablature: therapy@smug.adelaide.edu.au

intro:

opening/ending riff: [x refers to 10th fret]
g:|x--99--7--5-7-|x--99--7--5-7-|x--9
9--7--5-7-|x--99--7--5-7-|
d:|0-------------|7-------------|8---
----------|7-------------|
a:|--------------|--------------|----
----------|--------------|
e:|--------------|--------------|----
----------|--------------|

g:|xh------|12h-----|--------|---
---------------------|
d:|0-------|--------|12h-----|---
---------------------|
a:|--------|--------|--------|12-
12--10-10--8-8--7-7--|
e:|--------|--------|--------|---
---------------------|
[h = harmonic]

verse refrain: [note 'x' refers to the 10th fret]
g:|-------------------------------------
--------------------------|
d:|-----xx-7----------xx-7--------------
--------------------------|
a:|5-77-------0305-77-------030---------
------03-5--305305-530530-|
e:|----------------------------3-13-1-01
-3313---------------------|
^
|
this note might not be played...
[repeat through verse, repeat
in a broken kinda way in some
parts though]

solo: (let open d ring occasionally)
g:|7--9--9/109--10--12--14-1
4 - 1 4 - 1
4--14-14-14--12--14--14/1514
- - 1 5 - - 17--|
d:|------------------------
- - - - - - -
---------------------------
- - - - - - - ------|
a:|------------------------
- - - - - - -
---------------------------
- - - - - - - ------|
e:|------------------------
- - - - - - -
---------------------------
- - - - - - - ------|

g:|19-19-19-19--19-19-19--12--14--14/15
14--12--10--12/1412--10--|
d:|-------------------------------------
--------------------------|
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a:|-------------------------------------
--------------------------|
e:|-------------------------------------
--------------------------|

g:|---------------------------------------|
d:|---------------------------------------|
a:|12-12-12----12-12--10-10--8-8--7-7--(5)|
e:|---------------------------------------|

d
color me once color me twice
everything gonna turn out nice
g
everlasting arms
d
you gotta keep me from these false alarms
alarm, alarm i see you sad
maybe i see you i'm glad
g d
maybe maybe the fire of her desire
patience patience said the man
patience patience i can't understand
g
patience like a man and a wife
d
i got patience on my neck like a cold cold knife
i say jack be nimble jack fall dead
jack bend over and give jilly head
g d
oh you gotta help my body heal my soul

bass solo:

verse 2:
d
dead men working a sinner a saint
mixing up a pail of paint
g
painted the house, black as night
d
when the sun came up the house was white
gotta go on
g
gotta go on
we gotta go on
d
you gotta go on
you gotta go on
g
go on
go on
d
try and live life like i couldn't

guitar solo:

outro:

bass

g|-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9
-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-|
d|-0------------7------------8---
---------7------------|
a|-------------------------------
----------------------|
e|-------------------------------
----------------------|

g|-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-
7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7---7-|
d|-0------------7------------8------
------7----------------|
a|----------------------------------
-----------------------|
e|----------------------------------
-----------------------|
harmonic^
Lyrics: Color me Once, Violent Femmes [end]