L Dopa Tabs & Lyrics by Big Black

L Dopa

guitar tabs lyrics

Big Black

---------------------------------------------------------------------
L DOPA � Big Black
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: Ciar�n Rooney
Email: [email protected]

Tuning: Normal

�L Dopa� is the fourth song on Big Black�s final studio LP, �Songs About Fucking�. Like most of the
album, it�s short, fast, and noisy as hell. It�s about a sleeping sickness epidemic in the 1920s,

where people just slept for years and years, woke up as old people, their youths wasted away
without their actual realizing it � and all of them asked to be killed or else killed themselves.
Yeah, that�s Big Black for you. Here�s the tab.

Intro/Main Riff:
The intro is on a bass, so when it comes to playing the riff on guitar for the second
when it comes in, it�s just the same notes only with powerchords.
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5--3-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-2--|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0--3-3-3-3-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0--|

He plays several different harmonies over this riff, so if you�ve got an extra guitar
he can keep with the above riff. This is the first harmony; it sounds weird by itself but
fits into the actual song:

e|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4----|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

This harmony then goes straight into a third octave of the original main riff,
played on the high E.

e|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus (of sorts):

e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-6-5-5-5-8-5-6-5-5-5-8-5-6-5-5-5-8-5-6-5-5-5-5--------------------|
The harmony of which goes:

e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

The only different part of this song is the �solo� � if you can call it that � which is
some weird sounds played over what appears to be a D note on the bass, but who knows?
whack over muted strings and it�ll sound fine!
And that�s it. Here�s the lyrics:

I got a sickness sweet as a love note
I got a headache like a pillow
Called me Daisy, called me Daisy, called me Daisy, that one
Called me Daisy
I am a sweetheart
I am a prom queen
I am some puppies
What, Daisy?
What, Daisy?
Are we here now?
I am a horror
This is an old one
What, Daisy?
L Dopa fixed me, all right

| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
=====================================================================