'Offbeat Bare Ass'

Performed by 311

From the album "Grassroots" on Capricorn Records

Music by:  N. Hexum, C. Sexton & A. Wills

Lyrics by:  N. Hexum & D. Martinez

(c) 1994 Allegiance Music/Hydroponic Music BMI

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Tabbed by: Josh Tyson (jotyson@vt.edu)

311 Guitar Archive - http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~slusarz/311/311.html





Riff 1 (w/Heavy Distortion):

============================

   B5/F#   C5/G

1:--------------

2:--------------

3:-4--4----5--5-

4:-4--4----5--5-

5:-2--2----3--3-

6:-2--2----3--3-



Riff 2 (w/Distortion):

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   N.C.

1:------------------

2:------------------

3:------------------

4:----------4-2-4-4-

5:------------------

6:-0-1-2-2----------



Riff 3 (w/Distortion):

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   E5      F#5 G5 F#5

1:------------------

2:------------------

3:------------------

4:------------------

5:-2-2-2-2--4--5--4-

6:-0-0-0-0--2--3--2-



Riff 4 (w/Distortion):

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   N.C.

1:--------------------

2:--------------------

3:--------------------

4:------------------5-

5:-5h7-7-7--5-7-5-7---

6:--------------------



Chorus (w/Heavy Distortion):

============================

   G5   C#5/Ab

1:---------------------

2:---------------------

3:------6--6--6--6-6-6-

4:-5-5--6--6--6--6-6-6-

5:-5-5--4--4--4--4-4-4-

6:-3-3--4--4--4--4-4-4-



Riff 5 (w/Distortion):

======================

   B5 D5  B5 C5

1:-7--10--7--8-8-8-8-

2:-7--10--7--8-8-8-8-

3:-------------------

4:-------------------

5:-------------------

6:-------------------





Lyrics/Song Structure:

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---> Play Riff 1 (x4)

---> Play Riff 1 over:

   Any different people can apply to drop the funk

   It's not a country club review board steady talkin junk

   Many people would have it others go put and grab it

   Some trip over roots and say fuck it I'm sunk

   I put it in a limerick and kick the slick nick verbs

   I am the one who scores the herb

   When we're on the road P-Nut rolls it up

   Throw me a joint on stage what's up

---> No guitar over:

   I will tell a cop that I know my fucking rights

   And we can match wits all night for real

---> Play Riff 1 over:

   He said if I had nothing to hide

   Then of course I wouldn't mind if he looked through our ride

   Uh, no I'd really rather you didn't

   And no we don't have guns hidden

---> Play Riff 2 over:

   We stood there for a while continue to decline

   Firmly, I didn't lose my mind

   I didn't let him break me he's just another human

   Not a bit of shame in what we were doin' that day

   He couldn't make us stay

   We had our shit together

   It don't matter whether

---> Play Riff 3 over:

   We sport the dread locks or a shaved head

---> No guitar over:

   Or if we have a sticker from the dead

---> Play Riff 4 over:

   I said a better verse rehearsed about the roughneck curse

---> No guitar over:

   Last week I keep an even keel and bow in place

   And face the music every minute

---> Play Chorus (x4)

---> Play Riff 1 over:

   Never could see my homey comin' till he passed

   Funky gas by my way all the day I couldn't laugh

   Oh by now I'm chill with it

   Bare ass in my face I'm ok but Chad's like "Uh-uh no he isn't"

   So I proceed to hear him get loose with the

   Fartin' all over my face sometimes my tummy

   He fucked with my flow although I thought it funny

---> Play Riff 5 over:

   I probably wouldn't care if I smoked more kind bud

   But that wouldn't do me shit cuz then he'd fuck me more up

   Crazy ill and chillin' rude but I'ze a real cool dude

   He didn't believe the day would come when he would get his too

---> Play Riff 2 over:

   But then one day right in front of his face I got him

   He looked over said "God damn get me some water"

   The one time I hadn't wasted till I got mine

   Smeared his nose with my armpit funk slime

   So you get it the picture just how sick we were then

   But before I jet "Hey yo Chad sniff my finger man"

---> Play Chorus (x4)

---> No guitar over:

   I can see a lot of people who feel like I do

   I can see a lot of people who feel like I don't

---> Play Riff 1 over:

   I go on step lightly even when I'm heavy

   High jump the slump open up fot the Revy Horton Heat

   Sweet what am I displayin' forgot what I was saying

   I know I must be laying a pipe you got a gripe

   With the way I get high

---> No guitar over:

   Graffix bong sing along with a cry of a

---> Play Riff 5 over:

   Mandatory sentence for a crime with no victim

   When everyone knows jail terms should be picked in

   Order of the pain that they cause

   Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law

   Until you violate the rights of another

   Respect the space of your sister and your brother

---> Play Riff 2 over:

   The war on drugs may be well intentioned

   But it falls fucking flat when you stop and mention

   The overcrowded prisons where a rapists gets paroled

   To make room for a dude who has sold

   A pound of weed to me that's a crime

   Here's to good people doin time y'all

---> Play Chorus (x4)

---> Play Chorus over:

   Bare ass, yeah

   Bare ass, yeah

   Bare ass, yeah

   Bare ass, yeah





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