Basket Case - Green Day

Version 4 of 25
Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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If you just want to play this on an acoustic with open chords, here they are.

Capo 1st fret, standard tuning

           
D* - (10 12 12

     
 11 10 10)
A* - (5  7  7  6  5  5)
Bm*- (7  9  9  7  7  7)

Chords relative to capo


[Verse 1]

             
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 doubt about

 
 it


[Chorus]

             
  Sometimes I 

             
give myself th


e creeps
             
  Sometimes my

             
 mind plays tr

      
icks on me
             
It all keeps a

      
dding up
            
I think I'm cr

       
acking up
             
Am I just para


noid?
          (
Am I just ston

ed?


[Riff]

*  *  * *
*  *  * *


[Verse 2]

           
I went to a sh

rink
            
To analyze my 


dreams
             
She says it's 

        
lack of sex
              
That's bringin

  
g me down
           
I went to a wh

ore
            
He said my lif

      
e's a bore
             
So quit my whi

     
ning cause
              
It's bringing 


her down


[Chorus]

             
  Sometimes I 

            
give myself th

e creeps
             
  Sometimes my

             
 mind plays tr

      
icks on me
             
It all keeps a

      
dding up
            
I think I'm cr

       
acking up
             
Am I just para


noid?
              
Uh, yuh, yuh, 

(
ya


[Riff]

*  *  * *
*  *  * *
*  *  * *
*  *  * *


[Bridge]

             
Grasping to co

 
ntrol
         
So I better ho

ld on


[Instrumental]

            
            


[Chorus]

             
  Sometimes I 

            
give myself th

e creeps
             
  Sometimes my

             
 mind plays tr

      
icks on me
             
It all keeps a

      
dding up
            
I think I'm cr

       
acking up
             
Am I just para


noid?
          (
Am I just ston

ed?


[Outro]