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                     HANGING AROUND - Screeching Weasel
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By Mike Ripplinger (openface@aol.com)

Intro Riff A
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B-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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D-----------------------------------------------------------------------
A-0--12-12-12-12-12-12--12-11-10-9--0-0--12-12-12-12-12-12--12-11-10-9--
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Intro Riff B
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B-------------------------------------------------------------------------
G----14-14-14-14-14-14--14-13-12-11-------14-14-14-14-14-14--14-13-12-11--
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A-0----------------------------------0-0----------------------------------
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Guitar I starts off by playing Intro Riff A once.  Then, drums, guitar II,
and bass enter and Intro Riff A is played twice.  After that, play Intro
Riff B twice, and then ("Go!") to this chord progression:

[ A / G# / G / F# ] x8 (after the fourth time through, guitar II plays
                        straight eighth notes at the 12th fret of the A
                        string, and continues to do so through the second
                        four times through this progression.)

Then, everything but guitar I cuts out, and guitar I plays:

[ A / B / G / D / A ]  which, coincidentially, is the verse.  Everything
                       comes back and we start...

[Verse]:
A                                      B
  I walked around alone last night and   tried to look at people like I
G   D    A
Did back then
                                 B
I kinda wanted just to hang out,   remind myself what it was all
 G    D   A
About a - gain
G              A
  Everything I thought I'd shattered
G                            A
  And left laying there that didn't matter
G               A                     E
  Every now and then comes back to my eyes

[Repeat Verse w/ these lyrics]:
Moving in a new direction, I know if you're not getting better
You're getting worse
But watching everybody else it's getting harder to remind myself of
What I've learned
Relying on another lame religion
To validate our arrogant traditions
And any day we're gonna wonder why we've been left behind

[For lack of a better term, this is the Chorus]:
A                             D
  This girl came up to me and said I think my teacher used to
G                                 D (with those cool Dan Panic cymbals!)
Go to school with you and she was right
    A                           D
And if for just a second I take off these colored glasses I can
G                               D                                  A
See it might just be a waste of time, a waste of time, and I don't know

[ A / B / G / A ] x2  This is the rhythm guitar's part during the solo

[Verse]
Every day that passes it gets easier to walk off and it
Seems all right
And every day another person I used to call my friend just
Disappears from sight
Now I see that I'm alone just like I
Always was from the beginning and I
Think maybe that's the reason I'm not hanging around

[Chorus]
I see your face and wonder where you'll be five years from now and
What it really means to you inside
I can't explain the reasons why I can't hang out and bide my time
It just keeps going on and on and on and on and on and I don't know...

For the outro, while the lyrics repeat "And I don't know..." guitar I
plays the [ A / B / G / A ] you played during the solo 4 times.  Guitar
II plays the solo over again, over the first 2 times through this
progression, but then repeats this riff over and over for the second
2 times through:

E----------------
B--3-2-----------
G------4--2-4-2--
D----------------
A----------------
E----------------

The solo is really easy.  First, play these two notes 16 times:
E----------
B----------
G---2--4---
D----------
A----------
E----------

Then play this riff 4 times:
E--------------------
B-----------3-2------
G--2-4-2-4------4-2--
D--------------------
A--------------------
E--------------------

performed by Screeching Weasel
written by Ben Weasel, Jughead, Danny Vapid, Dan Panic, and John Personality
(C) 1992 No Budget Productions
from the Lookout! Records release My Brain Hurts (LK 63 LP/CS/CD)

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