Green Day – Basket Case chords

Artist    : Green Day
Song      : Basket Case
Album     : Dookie
Tabbed By : Ketan (ketan.gupta50@yahoo.co.in)

TUNING : HALF-STEP DOWN

CHORDS USED   E5      B5     C#5     G#5      A5      D5      e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|G|-9---------------6-----------------------7---------------------------------|D|-9-------9-------6-------6-------7-------7---------------------------------|A|-7-------9-------4-------6-------7-------5---------------------------------|E|---------7---------------4-------5-----------------------------------------|


[VERSE]
E5              B5Do you have the time
   C#5          G#5To listen to me whine
 A5               E5About nothing and everything
      B5All at once
E5          B5I am one of those
  C#5        G#5Melodramatic fools
   A5           E5Neurotic to the bone
              A5No doubt about it


[CHORUS]
A5          B5              E5Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5           B5                   E5Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
A5                  B5It all keeps adding up
  E5        D5       C#5I think I'm cracking up
   A5         B5Am I just paranoid?
          E5     B5   C#5   B5    x2Am I just stoned?


[VERSE]
  E5        B5I went to a shrink
   C#5        G#5To analyze my dreams
    A5                E5She says it's lack of sex
                   B5That's bringing me down
  E5        B5I went to a whore
    C#5              G#5She said my life's a bore
   A5              E5So quit my whining cause
                  B5It's bringing her down


[CHORUS]
A5          B5              E5Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5           B5                   E5Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
A5                  B5It all keeps adding up
  E5        D5       C#5I think I'm cracking up
   A5         B5Am I just paranoid? 
              E5     B5   C#5   B5    x4 Uh, yuh, yuh, ya

A5              B5Grasping to control
So I better hold on


E5  B5  C#5  G#5  A5  E5  B5  x2


[CHORUS]
A5          B5              E5Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A5           B5                   E5Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
A5                  B5It all keeps adding up
  E5        D5       C#5I think I'm cracking up
   A5         B5Am I just paranoid?
          G#5 A5 G#5 A5   A5 E5 B5Am I just stoned?


[OUTRO]
G#5 A5 G#5 A5   A5 E5 B5   x3

A5  E5  B5