Awful Uke tab by Hole

5 Chords used in the song: D, A, G, F, Dm

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Artist: Hole

Album: Celebrity Skin

Year: 1998

Difficulty:

3.7

(Intermediate)

Key: unknownChords

Intro: D   A   G
       D   A   G


D                
Swing low, sweet cherry
        A G
Make it awful
D               
It's your life, it's your party
        A G
It's so awful
D                  
Let's start a fire! Let's start a riot!
           A G
Yeah, it's awful
D
It was punk

Yeah, it was perfect
         A G
Now it's awful


          D                    G          A
They know how to break all the girls like you
         D                    G          A
And they rob the souls of the girls like you
         D                      G   A
And they break the hearts of the girls


D                  
Swing low, cherry, cherry
           A G
Yeah, it's awful
D           
He's drunk, he tastes like candy
        A     G
He's so beautiful
D             
He's so deep like dirty water
          G A
God, he's awful
D                
You're lost, oh, where's your daddy?
        A G
It's so awful


         D                    G          A
And they royalty rate all the girls like you
         D                    G          A
And they sell it out to the girls like you
        D            A     G
To incorporate little girls


F    G                 F
Hey, run away with the light
G              F
Run away, it's divine
      G               F      
Let's run away, yeah, tonight
          G                      A
And we'll steal the light of the world


D             
Swing low, sweet cherry
           A G
Yeah, it's awful
D                
You're ripe for the picking
        A G
It's so awful


D               
You've got your youth, don't waste your money
           A G
Yeah, it's awful
D
I was punk!

Now I'm just stupid!
       A G
I'm so awful


Dm
Oh, just shut up you're only sixteen
Dm
Oh, just shut up you're only sixteen


D            
If the world is so wrong
              A              G
Yeah, you can break them all with one song
D            
If the world is so wrong
              A           G
Yeah, you can take it all with one song


D          
Swing low, sweet cherry
        A G
Make it awful
D                   
They bought it all, just build a new one
        A     G
Make it beautiful
D
Yeah

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About this song: Awful

"Awful" is the third and final single by Hole from their album Celebrity Skin. The lyrics explore how the media and modern pop culture corrupt young girls and how they should rebel. There is, allegedly, a brief allusion to Gavin Rossdale on the lyrics, who once had a fling with Courtney Love.Described as "funny" but also "kind of sad" by the writer herself, Courtney Love has proclaimed that this is one of her most loved songs. Writing the lyrics offered her a backwards glimpse at the angry Read more on Last.fm.

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