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**** big_city - operation ivy **
****  alex gonzalez **


(riff 1)        intro
(riff 2)        intro
(riff 1)        intro
(variant 1)     intro
concrete and chaos rise up  (riff 1)
spiderweb across the land like a giant rash.  (riff 2)
forests lie down below  (riff 1)
foundations of buildings in a bed of ash.  (riff 2)
people here got it real good,  (riff 1)
'cuz the glass towers bring prosperity.  (riff 2)
and other people starve in the street  (riff 1)
concrete knows no sympathy.  (variant 2)

    F     G        C
big city, big      city
    F     G        C
big city, big      city
    F     G        C
big city, big      city
F                  C
big city,          it's a wishing well.
F                  C
big city,          it's a living hell.

this town, it's fucking insane:  (riff 1)
one will starve and another will gain.  (riff 2)
it's like a giant mechanical brain,  (riff 1)
and the people are cells and the streets are veins.  (riff 2)
    F              G              C
    it thinks      only of        itself,
    F              G              C
    thousand limbs crawling it    expands and grows,
    F              G              C
and still the      concrete       sits there,
    F              G              C
    sits there     stark gray and cold.

(riff 3)(second half only)
(riff 3)(second half only)
and i think i wanna be a brick layer,  (riff 3)
so i can put another brick in the wall.  (riff 3)
it's stanitary, rational, and happy and sane.  (riff 3)
growing like a flower to surround us all.  (riff 3)


riff 1
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------5--------5---|
|-------3---------5-----3-3-3----3-3-3---3-|
|-1-1-1-----3-3-3--------------------------|

variant 1
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------5-5------------|
|-------3---------5---3-3-3------3---------|
|-1-1-1-----3-3-3--------------------------|

variant 2
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------5-5-5-------|
|---------------------------5--5-5-5-------|
|-------3---------5---3-3-3----3-3-3-------|
|-1-1-1-----3-3-3--------------------------|

riff 2
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------5-----|
|---------------------------5--3-3-3-------|
|-------3---------5---3-3-3------------3---|
|-1-1-1-----3-3-3--------------------------|

riff 3 (first half)                        (second half)
|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|--5----5----5-5----------------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3--------------|--5----5----5-5--5----8---3-3--3--3--|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5------|--3----3----3-3--5----8---3-3--3--3--|
|-------------------------3-3-3-3------|-----------------3----6---1-1--1--1--|

THE END
**** big_city - operation ivy **
****  alex gonzalez ** 

 Big City by Operation Ivy
Tabbed by a punk 
Play this song with a pick , using up and down strokes, none of that all down stroke shit






Intro: wait for the guitar to stop with his little solo thing and come in 
on the C when the drums come in. thats where im going to start

first part after you hit that one C, play this twice
G:
D:                                        5             5                                                 5             
A:       3             5  3-3-3-3-  3-3-3-3     3            3               5  3-3-3-3   3-3-3-0
E : 1-1   3-3-3-3                                              1-1    3-3-3-3                                  3-1


Chorus: play as many times as they do on the cd (im too lazy to count)
G:                     5-5-5-3-2-0 (PLAY THE LAST PHRASE REALLY FAST)               
D:
A:                  2
E:1-1-1 3-3-3


THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE SONG, EXCEPT FOR THAT BASS SOLO SORTA THING AT TOWARDS THE END, FIGURE IT OUT YOUR SELF, IT'S KINDA LIKE THAT FAST PART AT THE END OF THE CHORUS.