RADIOHEAD- Knives Out (un-released)
transcription by Joey Gallagher ([email protected])
What you have in this song is 3 guitars. Thom doing the acoustic rythm.
Jonny doing all the sharp sounding riffs. And Colin adding some bass lines
(I haven’t bothered to include that) The songs pretty straight forward and
incorporates alot of Paranoid Android chords.
The chorus of the song can be kind of hard to distinguish because of Colin’s
bass lines, which can kind of mislead you because he’s darting around what
the others are playing.
Used
Cm- (8x088x)
Bbadd6- (6x878x)
Ab- (4x654x) or can also try Ab9- (4x554x) I think Thom switches back and
forth between these two quickly in some parts of the song.
Gm- (3x033x)
Fsus2- (1x023x)
Em6- (02202x)
F#- (2x02xx)
G- (3x0xxx)
Am- (5x755x)
Dm- (xx0231)
Dm/C- (x3023x)
Bb9- (6x076x)
Intro
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Verse1
I want you to know
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he’s not coming back
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he’s bloated and frozen still there’s
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no point in letting it go to waste
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Chorus
so knives out cook him up
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don’t look down shove it in your mouth
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Verse2
if you’d been a dog they would of
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drowned you at birth
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look into my eyes it’s the
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only way you’ll know I’m telling the truth
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Chorus
so knives out cook him up
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squash his head put him in the pot
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Solo
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Chorus
Verse4
I want you to know
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he’s not coming back
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look into my eyes it’s the
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only way you’ll know I’m telling the truth
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that’s the end? we need applause, you gotta clap, thanx very much, goodnight
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RADIOHEAD Knives Out
By Martin Tetzlaff
(For those who want to play the Thom Yorke acoustic guitar part!)
First the chords:
1 – (
2 – (6xx88x)
3 – (4xx54x)
4 – (3×0330)
5 – (13x23x)
6 – (022020)
7 – (5xx55x)
8 – (5xx65x)
9 – (xx0231)
10 -(x30231)
11 -(x13331)
INTRO
VERSE
I
He’s
He’s
Still there’s
REFRAIN
7 8
So knives out
9 10
Cook him up
VERSE
If you’d been a dog
They would have drowned you at birth
REFRAIN
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don’t look down
Shove it in your mouth
CLIMB
VERSE
I want you to know
He’s not coming back
Look into my eyes
It’s the only way you’ll know I’m telling the truth
REFRAIN
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
The song ends with chord #6. But everybody has to find out on his/her own how to play the strings like Thom does.
But these must be the chords for the acoustic guitar part.
