Artist: Joey Cape
Song: The Ramones are Dead
Record: Bridge
Tuning: Standard
Tabbed By Mike Pihowich
A F#
I can listen to the records from my younger years
D E A E
Pacify my bitter ears and revive the dead dinosaurs.
A F#
Me and Jamo rode two buses round for Rockpile
D E A Am
Sure to find a rarity and something to believe.
D F# D
But I can't listen to them now without mourning a small town
E A Am
and the mom and pops I loved
D F#
Once were missionary men
D E
We age into obscurity with them
A E
The Ramones are dead
A F#
You could judge a band by the cover flipping through the bins
D
Assured enough to take a spin
E A E
The art and lyrics big enough to see and read
A
Pull the record from its sleeve
F# E
Spear the cut hole, arm and seed
D E A Am
Plunge the needle, shaking like a drug fiend
D F#
Now relevant again somehow
D
Reanimated sacred cow
E A Am
But it all seems different now
D F#
It's far too easy to find anything in demand
D E
I'll say it once again
A
The Ramones are dead.
