Basket Case - Green Day

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This is the Green Day song Basket Case from the 1994 album Dookie. This version is a 
more bluesy acoustic version, played slower than the original, all open 7th chords instead 
of the original power chords. It sounds great played with an acoustic.
Try it and please rate

Chords used

 – xx0212
 – x02020
 – x21202
 – xx3210
 – 320001
 – x32000

Verse

            
Do you have th

   
e time
            
To listen to m

    
e whine
            
About nothing 

            
and everything

         
 all at once
            
I am one of th


ose
          
Melodramatic f


ools
            
Neurotic to th

            
e bone no doub

        
t about it

Chorus

           
Sometimes I gi

             
ve myself the 

 
creeps
            
Sometimes my m

            
ind plays tric

      
ks on me
            
It all keeps a

      
dding up
          
I think I'm cr

    
acking up
            
Am I just para

 
noid?
            
I'm just stone

d

Interlude

    x 2

Verse

            
I went to a sh


rink
            
To analyze my 

 
dreams
            
She says it's 

            
lack of sex th

              
at's bringing 

    
me down
            
I went to a wh


ore
            
He said my lif

        
e is a bore
            
And quit my wh

            
ining 'cause i

              
t's bringing h

    
er down


Chorus

           
Sometimes I gi

             
ve myself the 

 
creeps
            
Sometimes my m

            
ind plays tric

      
ks on me
            
It all keeps a

      
dding up
          
I think I'm cr

    
acking up
            
Am I just para

 
noid?
            
I'm just stone

d


Interlude

   


Bridge

             
Grasping to co


ntrol, So you 

better hold on

Verse

            
Do you have th

   
e time
            
To listen to m

    
e whine
            
About nothing 

            
and everything

         
 all at once
            
I am one of th


ose
          
Melodramatic f


ools
            
Neurotic to th

            
e bone no doub

        
t about it

Chorus

           
Sometimes I gi

             
ve myself the 

 
creeps
            
Sometimes my m

            
ind plays tric

      
ks on me
            
It all keeps a

      
dding up
          
I think I'm cr

    
acking up
            
Am I just para

 
noid?

I'm just stone

d

Outro

     x 4

  

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