"Tommy Del Mar Learned His English From Reading Thrasher Magazine"

Transcribed by Alan

Intro (played behind verses as well)







   G                                   C



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|--3-----------3------------------3-|--3--3--------3----3--------0H3P0-------|



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|--0-----0--0--0---------------0----|--2-----2--2--2-----------------------0-|



|--2-----2--2-------------0H2-------|--3-----------3-------3-----------------|



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   >           >                       >           >







Play the intro 2 times... then the singing starts...



 G                       C



   Tommy tenia justo un nino de Buenos Aries



   G                              C



    cuando saber de la banda de New South Wales.





   G                                C



   Penso que estabanel mas superior, 



   D5                     C5



pero que el caca estaban cantan acerca de?







   G                    C



De que modo estaba supuso saber estaban racista?





   G                                  C



  Tommy Del Mar learned his anglais from reading his Thrasher magazines



   G                      C



and from all that listening to the Ramones.



   D5                           C5



"Como se dices 'Como se dices?'"



 D5                       C5



  So Tommy got smart, Tommy got listo











   G5                  D5



    took a long, hard look at his Thrasher revista.



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    For every trick he picked up came un punado de palabras.





   G5                                D5



   Su vocabularia outgrew "ollie" y "McTwistas"



   E5                     C5        G            C    G



    "What means this word 'geeks'?"











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   Ahora, Tommy has his own band 



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 and you'd swear they were from the shores, man.



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    I'm talking sudamerica, 





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 latino North America.



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  His lyrics are Spanglish and his cars a Volkswagen.





















Outro



Simply play, first, this 3 chords :   D - Em - C



and then this :







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|----------------------3----------|----------3-----------3----------|



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|------2--------------------------|--3------------------------------|



|--3------------------------------|---------------------------------|







  G                                 C                                    G



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|----------------------3----------|----------3-------3/5--3---1/3--1--|---3--|



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|------2--------------------------|--3--------------------------------|---2--|



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                                                                       ARP.







Musical definitions:







 >      : ACCENTUATE note or chord; it means to play it louder.



 H      : HAMMER ON: strike the first (lower) note, then sound the second



          with another finger by fretting it without picking.



 P      : PULL OFF: place both fingers on the note to be sounded. Strike the



          first note and, without picking, pull the finger off to sound the



          second (lower) note.



 ARP    : ARPEGGIO: play the note of the chord indicated by quickly rolling



          them from bottom to top.



 / or \ : SLIDE: strike the first note and then slide the same left-hand



          finger up or down to the second note. The second note is not struck.







Well, that's it... let's end the slaughtering here. Enjoy.