Helter Skelter
(Lennon/McCartney)


[Intro]

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ottom I go bac

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k to the top o

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turn and I go 

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for a

              
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ttom and I see

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 you again.

              
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eah  yeah!


[Verse]

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Well do you don't you want me to make you

I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
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Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
          A                                E
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.


  
[Chorus]
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A|----------0-
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   Well, Helte

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r Skelter

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  Helter skelt

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eah


So much for verses and choruses.  The rest are pretty much the same,
except that the rest of the verses hit the G chord a little sooner
(at the beginning of the third line of the verse).


[Guitar solo in the middle]

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he comes

              
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Later, there's a neat riff in one of the last verses.  I think it
comes right after "will you won't you want me to make you" or something
like that.  This is a cool riff with that looonnnng slide.


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As the song fades into the first ending, there are some nice bend releases,
while the lyrics repeat "coming down fast":

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Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.


Tab Special Notations:

----0----  play the open string ('fret zero')
----5----  play fret five
----5~---  play fret five with vibrato
---5/7---  play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---7\5---  play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--7\5/7--  play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back up
--8b(9)--  play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
             the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8--  play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
             unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7---  hammer-on to fret seven
----p5---  pull-off to fret five
---/7----  slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---15\---  play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---0h3---  play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
             three
---7p5---  play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five