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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:01:16 -0600
From: brucea@tic.ab.ca (Bruce Armstrong)
Subject: TAB: Freedom of Choice - Devo

Freedom Of Choice - Devo
Words and Music by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V. Casale

Intro

Chord progression - F G F G Bb C D

Opening lick tab - playing the following lick with 5 chords fills it
out better.  This is more like a bass line.

E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G ----------------|----------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-----|----------------|
D --------------0-|3-3-3-3-3-3-2-3-|------------3-2-|3-3-3-3-3-3-2-3-|
A ------------2---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------3-----|----------------|----------------|----------------|


E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G 0-0-0-0-0-0-----|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D ------------3-2-|----------------|----------------|0-0-0-0-0---0---|
A ----------------|1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|----------0---0-|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


E ----------------|
B ----------------|
G ----------------|
D --------------0-|
A 3-----------2---|
E ----------3-----|

F                          G
Victim of collision on the open sea

F                     G
Nobody ever said that life was free

F             G
Sink, swim go down with the ship

F                          G
Use your freedom of choice

  F                   G
I say it again in the land of the free

Bb                        C                        D
Use your freedom of choice, your freedom of choice



           G     Bb          Eb
In ancient Rome, there was a poem

C       G   Bb          Eb
About a dog who had two bones

C            G    Bb            Eb
He picked at one, he licked the other

C          G            Bb         Eb   C   D
He went in circles till he dropped dead

                 C   D                   D   C   D
Freedom of choice       is what you got

F                 G   F
Freedom of choice


Instrumental break

G   F   G   F   G (1 bar)  F (1 bar)  G (1 bar)  F (1 bar)  G(1 bar)


F                  G
Then if you got it you don't want it

F                             G
Seems to be the rule of thumb

F                   G
Don't be tricked by what you see

F                      G
You got two ways to go

     F                   G
I'll say it again in the land of the free

Bb                        C                        D
Use your freedom of choice, your freedom of choice



Instrumental break

G Bb Eb C G Bb Eb C D


                  C  D                   C   D
Freedom of choice       is what you got

Freedom of choice



           G     Bb          Eb
In ancient Rome, there was a poem

C       G   Bb          Eb
About a dog who had two bones

C            G    Bb            Eb
He picked at one, he licked the other

C          G            Bb         Eb   C   D
He went in circles till he dropped dead


Outro (repeat and fade)

                 C   D                   D   C   D
Freedom of choice       is what you got


Hope this is clear and helpful.  Comments?? (This is one of my first
ascii tab efforts!!!)

Long live the flower pots hats!!!!!!!!

Bruce