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Bastard

by Ben Folds · posted by TIN_MAN

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How to read this tab — notation key
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Blow note
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Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
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Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
BASTARD                              BEN FOLDS

KEY OF G


-3b  5   5    5   -4   4   -4   -4  4    5
The old bas-tard left his ties and his suit

4   -4   5    -4   -4    4    5   4    4
A brown box, moth-balls and bowl-ing shoes

 5   5  5  5   5   -4   4    -4  4  -4   4    5
and his o-pin-ions so you\'d nev-er have to choose

 -4   4   5     4    -4 -4  -4  5    4   4
Pret-ty soon, you\'ll be an old bas-tard too

(BRIDGE)

 -4  5    6    6 -4  4   -4    -4   5
You get small-er as the world gets big

 -4   5   5   -5   -4   5   5    -4   -4    5
The more you know you know you don\'t know shit

 -4   5    6  6    -4  4  -4  4   
The whiz man will nev-er fit you 

 -4   4    5   4   4
like the whiz kid did

(CHORUS)

 4  5   5   5   5  6    6
So why you got-ta act like 

 6   -6    6   5    -4   4
you know when you don\'t know?

 -6  6  7  -6  6    -6   -6   5 -4   4
It\'s o-kay if you don\'t know ev-ry-thing

 5   5   5   5  6    6
Why you got-ta act like 

 6   -6    6   5    -4   4
you know when you don\'t know?

 -6  6  7  -6  6    -6   -6   5 -4   4
It\'s o-kay if you don\'t know ev-ry-thing

VERSE 2


  5     5   5     -4    4   -4    5    5
Close your eyes close your ears young man

   -4    5   -4   -4   -4  4  5   4   4
You\'ve seen and heard all an old man can

   5    5    5   -4  4    -4   -4  5  5
Spread the facts on the floor like a fan

  -4  4  5   4   -4   -4   -4   -4   5   4
throw a-way the ones that make you feel bad

  5   5  6   6   5   -4   -4  -4   5
Kids to-day are get-ting old too fast

  4    5    5    4   5  -5  
they can\'t wait to grow up 


 4   5   5    5    4   -5
so they can kiss some ass

 -4   5   5   6   6     5   4   -4   -4   5
They get nos-tal-gic ‘bout the last ten years

-4   4   4   -4   -4   5     4    4
be-fore the last ten years have passed

(CHORUS)

  5     5  -4 4  -4  -4 5   5
Tears land on a hand on a chest

 4   -4  5    4   -4 4  -4 -4   5  4   4
The old bas-tard had a par-ad-igm ar-rest

(BRIDGE)

(CHORUS TO END)

ENJOY!!!
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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