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This is an official QUALITY TABS INC. TabFile
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This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation
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or research.
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SONG TITLE: No Sleep Till Brooklyn
ARTIST/GROUP: Beastie Boys
ALBUM: Licensed To Ill
TRANSCRIBED BY: qualitytabs@qualitytabs.tk
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CHORDS:
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EADGBE
E5 (022xxx)
G5 (355xxx)
A5 (577xxx)
B5 (799xxx)
Beastie Boys are of course one of the greatest bands alive and
this songs proves it. This song is from 1986. How old are these
guys anyway?
Tune one note down to play along with the CD. Thanks to whoever
posted this song at OLGA, 'cause that's where I got the lyrics.
MAIN-RIFF:
E5 G5 A5 B5 G5
E|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|---2-2-----5--7-----9--5----|
A|---2-2-----5--7-----9--5----|
E|---0-0-----3--5-----7--3----|
INTRO: [play MAIN-RIFF]
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No sleep till... Brooklyn
In all the verses you just play bits of the MAIN-RIFF.
Listen to the song, you'll hear what I mean.
VERSE 1:
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Foot on the pedal - never ever false metal
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
My job ain't a job - it's a damn good time
City to city - I'm running my rhymes
On location - touring around the nation
Beastie Boys always on vacation
Itchy trigger finger but a stable turntable
I do what I do best because I'm illing and able
Ain't no faking - your money I'm taking
Going coast to coast - watching all the girlies shaking
While you're at the job working nine to five
The Beastie Boys at the Garden cold kickin' it live
BRIDGE: [play MAIN-RIFF]
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No sleep till...
VERSE 2:
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Another plane, another train, another bottle in the brain
Another girl, another fight, another drive all night
Our manager's crazy - he always smokes dust
He's got his own room at the back of the bus
Tour around the world - you rock around the clock
Plane to hotel - girls on the jock
We're thrashing hotels like it's going out of style
Getting paid along the way cause it's worth your while
Four on the floor - Adrock's out the door
M.C.A.'s in the back because he's skeezin' with a whore
We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack
With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back
BRIDGE: [play MAIN-RIFF]
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No sleep till...
In the chorus you play kind of a variation on the MAIN-RIFF.
Play it like this:
E5 G5 A5 B5 G5
E|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|-----2----------5------------------7--9--5---|
A|-----2----------5------------------7--9--5---|
E|-----0----------3------------------5--7--3---|
NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN
CHORUS: [play tab above]
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E5 G5 A5 B5 G5
NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN
E5 G5 A5 B5 G5
NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN
VERSE 3:
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Ain't seen the light since we started this band
M.C.A. - get on the mic my man
Born and bred in Brooklyn in the U.S.A.
They call me Adam Yauch - but I'm M.C.A.
Like a lemon to a lime - a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fly women
Got limos, arenas and TV shows
Autograph pictures and classy hos
Step off homes - get out of my way
Taxing little girlies from here to L.A.
Waking up before I get to sleep
Cause I'll be rocking this party eight days a week
BRIDGE: [play MAIN-RIFF]
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No sleep till...
CHORUS: [play like first chorus]
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NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN
NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN YEAH!
GUITAR-SOLO:
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Make up your own solo.
Rhythm guitar plays MAIN-RIFF
In the last chorus you play the
MAIN-RIFF like this:
E5 A5 B5 G5
E|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|--2---2---2-----7-----9---5--|
A|--2---2---2-----7-----9---5--|
E|--0---0---0-3-0-5-----7---3--|
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CHORUS: [play this]
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NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
NO (NO) SLEEP (SLEEP) TILL BROOKLYN (BROOKLYN)
[keep playing this and solo till end]
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