THE DEAD MILKMEN Ask Me To Dance from the Instant Club Hit EP Tabbed by: Adam LaSota (aka The Rube) (alasota@jcu.edu) All the chords are strummed in a basic 8th note pattern for two measures, i.e. 1-2-3-4, 2-2-3-4. The part with "This is a dancin' song" is different...see below. I'm not a guitarist so some of this may be slightly wrong. Speaking of slightly wrong, the solo is not completely accurate. It's close to what he plays but since it's The Dead Milkmen, things are kind of ad-libbed. At any rate, it sounds good when played with the song so it's the best I could do. Joe Jack's distortion is pretty basic DM distortion...kind of like on "Goin' To Graceland" or "Tacoland" (this song was recorded during those same sessions). I don't know how to play "real" chords so I was just playing power chords, or bar chords, I don't know which I was playing or if there's a difference. Basically, I was playing Ramones chords :) Tempo, about 120 beats per minute. [D] (intro) [D]Ask me to dance [B]Ask me to dance [F#]While the room around me explodes this is [G]your last chance [D]Just 'cause I have one leg [B]don't mean I can't twist. [F#]I hop along peg-leg style [G]and you act like I don't exist [The solo is at the bottom. The following chords are played in the background.] [D] [G] [D] [G] (this next line, the counting is kind of weird) 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 [E]This is [F#]a [G]dancin' song and I (these lines, it's just a quick, staccato quarter note on each chord) [F#]don't want to dance [G]all alone No I [B]don't want to dance [D]all alone Said I'm [F#]not gonna dance [G]all alone cause I (back to 8th notes!!!) [A]feel so lonely. [D]Ask me to dance [B]Ask me to dance [F#]While the room around me explodes this is [G]your last chance [D]Through no fault of my own [B]I was born to this child [F#]Portable party, wallflower girl [G]Now I'm going to dance free-style [solo] (same as before!) [Back to the "This is a dancin' song..." part] [D]Ask me to dance [B]Ask me to dance [F#]While the room around me explodes this is [G]your last chance (same D B F# G pattern, all the way to the end) Joe: "What's a girl to do if she only has one leg?" Rodney: "Well, I imagine she could join a convent!" Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh [D]Ask me to dance [B]Ask me to dance [F#]Ask me to dance, ask me to [G]D A N C [D]Dance SOLO: Ben, I don't write tabs (again, I'm a drummer) but this is what I came up with by ear...see if you can make any sense of it. The fifth string I think...like...the second smallest string...it's all played on that string. Once again, it's all 8th notes. I've separated it by each 4-beat measure. The solo repeats itself, so essentially what I've got written below has to be played twice. beat: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- note: 5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-|5-5-5-5-8-7-5-5-|2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-|2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-| From the Dead Milkmen Guitar Tab Project http://dmtabs.deadmilkmen.com/