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Author/Artist: Madrugada
Title: Black Mambo
Album: The Nightly Disease
Transcribed by: DMS & RH
Standard tuning (EADGBE)
This is the cool bassriff that is played in the begining of the
song. (And also throughout the song)
"Arranged" for guitar. I think. I've never played a bass, but it's
pretty cool to play this on a normal guitar...
e||---------------------------| e||---------------------------|
B||---------------------------| B||---------------------------|
G||---------------------------| G||---------------------------|
D||-----------0---0-2---------| or D||---------------------------|
A||-------0h2---2---------0---| A||-----------5---5-7---------|
E||--0------------------3-----| E||--0----5h7---7-------3-5---|
I sometimes use powercords on the first and the two last notes.
Just for the fun of it..
Guitar riff at 0:30, 0:45 & 3.03:
e||---------------------------|
B||---------------------------|
G||---------------------------|
D||---------------------------|
A||--2-2h3-2------------------|
E||-----------3--0------------|
Prechorus riff 1 and 2:
D||----0----| D||-------|
A||-3-------| A||----0--|
E||---------| E||-3-----|
Rhytm figur for the outro:
G Em(Let ring)
e||---3--------0---------------------|
B||-----3------0---------------------|
G||------------0---------------------|
D||------------2---------------------|
A||-2----------2---------------------|
E||---------0------------------------|
Intro:
Em Em G A Em x Many times
Verse:
Em
When you're on your own
G A
And you've got them twisting bones
Em G
And a red hot poker burning in your ear
A Em
You think you've had it
But you ain't nowhere near
G
You think you've had it
A Em
But you're nowhere near
Prechorus:
G Riff 1
Ah black mambo gonna knock you down to the ground
Em Riff 2
Black mambo little chicken better run
Chorus:
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Em G A
Gonna lock you down with liquor and love
Em G A
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run
Em
Don't let them catch you out here on the street
G A
Cause you've got no soul
Em G A
Black mambo, little chicken better run, run, run
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Interlude:
Em G A Em x 4
Verse:
Gonna lock you down with liquor and love
I lock you down with liquor and love
Oh black mambo with a funeral horn
No no no black mambo
You better run, you better run, you better run...
Black mambo coming for you
Prechorus:
Ah black mambo comes knocking with a funeral horn
Black mambo little chicken better run, run, run
Chorus:
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Em G A Em x 5 (Distortion)
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Bm G A
Don't let the children catch you
Outro:
G Em x Many times
Ends on Em
