'Down South' - Guitar Tab

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'Down South'
Performed by 311
From the album "Unity" on What Have You? Records
Music by:  N. Hexum, C. Sexton, M. Watkins & T. Mahoney
Lyrics by:  N. Hexum, C. Sexton, M. Watkins & T. Mahoney
(c) 1991 Allegiance Music/Hydroponic Music BMI
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Tabbed by: Michael Slusarz (slusarz@ucsu.colorado.edu)
311 Guitar Archive - http://chromosome.colorado.edu/311archive/Home.html

Intro/Riff 1 (Clean):
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   A           Asus2 Asus4 Asus2 A           Asus4    Asus2
1:-0--0-0-0-0--0-0---0-0---0-----0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-
2:-2--2-2-2-2--0-0---3-3---0-----2--2-2-2-2--3-3-3-3--0-
3:-2--2-2-2-2--2-2---2-2---2-----2--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-
4:-2--2-2-2-2--2-2---2-2---2-----2--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-
5:-0--0-0-0-0--0-0---0-0---0-----0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-
6:------------------------------------------------------

Verse (Clean):
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   A   D   E   A   D   E   A   D   E   A   E   D  Bm7
1:-0---2---0---0---2-------0---2---0---0---0---2--2-
2:-2---3---0---2---3-------2---3---0---2---0---3--0-
3:-2---2---1---2---2---1---2---2---1---2---1---2--2-
4:-2---0---2---2---0---2---2---0---2---2---2---0--0-
5:-0-----------0-------2---0-----------0------------
6:---------------------0----------------------------

Pre-Chorus (Clean):
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   Bm       C#m      D        E
1:-2--2-2---4--4-4--------------------
2:-3--3-3---5--5-5---7--7-7---9--9--9-
3:-4--4-4---6--6-6---7--7-7---9--9--9-
4:-4--4-4---6--6-6---7--7-7---9--9--9-
5:-2--2-2---4--4-4---5--5-5---7--7--7-
6:------------------------------------

Chorus - a (w/Distortion):
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   N.C.
1:-------------------------------------------
2:-------------------------------------------
3:-------------------------------------------
4:-------------------------------------------
5:-------------------------------------------
6:-2-2-0-2--2-2-0-2-0-2--2-2-0-2--5--4--2--0-

Chorus - b/Ending (w/Distortion):
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   F#5 E5
1:-------
2:-------
3:-------
4:-4---2-
5:-4---2-
6:-2---0-

Bridge 1 (w/Distortion):
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   F#5      F#5/E F#5 N.C.   F#5      F#5/E F#5 N.C.
1:----------------------------------------------------
2:----------------------------------------------------
3:----------------------------------------------------
4:-4-4-4-4----4---4----------4-4-4-4----4---4---------
5:-4-4-4-4----4---4----------4-4-4-4----4---4---------
6:-2-2-2-2----0---2---2-0-1--2-2-2-2----0---2---2-0-1-

   F#5      F#5/E F#5 N.C.   F#5 N.C.
1:-------------------------------------------
2:-------------------------------7-5---------
3:-----------------------------------6-4-----
4:-4-4-4-4----4---4----------4-----------7---
5:-4-4-4-4----4---4----------4-------------7-
6:-2-2-2-2----0---2---2-0-1--2---------------

Bridge 2 (Clean):
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   F#5          D6
1:-9--9--9--9---7--7--7--7-
2:-7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7-
3:-6--6--6--6---7--7--7--7-
4:-------------------------
5:-------------------------
6:-------------------------

Lyrics/Song Structure:
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---> Play Intro/Riff 1 (x8)
---> Play Intro/Riff 1 over:
   Let me take you down south
   Hear it from the dover's mouth
   The rhythm will make you want to move your body
   I had it once and never ever forgot it
   Feel the rhythm of rhapsody
   Your body moves in raw ecstasy
   Explosive eruption beyond compare
---> Play Pre-Chorus over:
   Take my advice don't think twice
   Let me take you way down south
---> Play Intro/Riff 1 (x2)
---> Play Chorus - a over:
   Step back cuz the funk is here and
   The base is kickin' straight to your ear man
   Because it's like that so don't talk back
   And if you do then you're gonna get the back slap
   Down south that's an enigma
   But to you it's a stupid dumb stigma
   That's right it's outta sight
---> Play Chorus - b (x1)
---> Play Intro/Riff 1 over:
   Let me tell you 'bout my baby
   She loves me don't mean maybe
   She knows what I think and I don't have to say it
   I love her so I don't have to play it
   We sit and drink in the sun
   I raise my glass and say she's the one
   Cool breeze light squeeze life
---> Play Pre-Chorus over:
   Take my advice don't think twice
   Let me take you way down south
---> Play Intro/Riff 1 (x2)
---> Play Chorus - a over:
   Step back I'm about to get hectic
   Chalk it up as another dialectic
   Hard like a jam, smooth like a ballad
   Call it what you want but I call it sound salad
   A slald grown in the garden of Eden
   Seekin' out pleasures like my boys in Sweden
   That's right the grooves tight like
---> Play Chorus - b (x1)
---> Play Bridge 1 (x2)
---> Play Bridge 2 over:
   Sit back just relax, let your mind unwind
   Pull your good thing close, let tranquility surround
   Psychedelic freak out taco funk frolic
   Grind fiend roots 'core soul music what have you
---> Play Intro/Riff 1 (x2)
---> Play Chorus over:
   Step back and think about the topic of this song
   Strong innuendo end over end goes your brain
   I won't say it's plain figure it out here's a clue
   It's about winding, grinding, finding that spot
   That get's her hot the joy of giving pleasure
   Is beyond measure
---> Play Chorus - b (x1)
---> End on A5 (x022xx)

== Last Updated:  April 19, 1996 ==

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