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Who Needs The Peace Corps Tabs

(ver. 1)
Zappa Frank
This is the second track on Frank Zappa's fourth album. This song is really 
great, especially the lyrics. It's built on many different melodies and
riffs. There are two guitars on this song, and ive figered them both out.

Chords: 
Cadd9:x35533
Bbadd9:x13311
Aadd9:x02200
Fadd9:x8101088
Dadd9:x57755
F#m:244222

Intro(Both guitars): Cadd9 Bbadd9 x2

Riff 1(Both guitars):
Played along to "What's there to live for...".
E|----------------------------------------------
B|-7--7--10-8--7---10--9--7---7---7--7--10-8--7-
G|--------------------------9-------------------
D|----------------------------------------------
A|----------------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------
                                                                              
-----------12------10----------14---9-10-12-------|
-10--9-7---------------12-8-----------------12-10-|
---------9------------------11--------------------|
--------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------|

Riff 2(Both guitars): 
Played after riff 1, along with "Think I'll just DROP OUT..".

E|-9-10-12-------|
B|---------12-10-|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|

Riff 3(The lead guitar plays the tab below, the rhythm guitar plays the Aadd9):
Played along with "Ill go to Frisco..."

Aadd9                                                                       
E|----------------------------5-|
B|-14---12---10---8---7---3---5-|
G|-14---12---11---9---7---4---6-|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|
                                                                              
Riff 4(Both guitars):
Played just before Riff 5

E|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------5--4-----------5--4-----|
D|-7----------7-5--7---------7-5-|
A|----7--------------7-----------|
E|-------------------------------|
 
Riff 5(Lead plays tab, rhythm plays chords):

Fadd9 Dadd9 Cadd9 Dadd9                                                     
E|-----------------------------|
B|-------10-10-8-8-------------|
G|-9-9-9-----------9-9-7-7-5-7-|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|
                                                                              
Riff 6a(Lead guitar):
This is the "Go to San Fra-an-cisco-o-o" part.

E|----------8---7--8--7------------|
B|-10---8------------------10-8-10-|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|
                                                                              
Riff 6b(Rhythm guitar):
E|---------------------------------|
B|-10---8---13---12-13-12--10-8-10-|
G|--7---5---10----9-10-9----7-5-7--|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

Riff 7:
"How I love you, how I love you, how I love you, how I love you, Frisco" part.
   Cadd9                  F#m                                               
E|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|-11-9-8-9-11-9-8-9-11-9-8-9--10--\--7-|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|

   Cadd9                                                                        
E|-----------------------------9-10-12-------|
B|-------------------------------------12-10-|
G|-11-9-8-9-11-9-8-9-11-9-8-9----------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

Outro(just play these chords over and over again): Cadd9 F#m
                                                                              
So that's the riffs, and here is the structure of the song:
Intro
Riff 1
Riff 2
Riff 3
Riff 1
Riff 2
Riff 3 x3
Riff 4
Riff 5
Riff 6
Riff 7
Riff 5
Riff 6
Outro


/Daniel "HanMeGitarren" Widegren
            
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