----------------------------------- | The Big Three Killed My Baby | | Words and Music by Jack White | | Tabbed by Patrick Ferris | ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Tab Definitions: | | G5: 355xxx | | F5: 133xxx | | F#5: 244xxx | | Bb5: x133xx | | B5: x244xx | | C5: x355xx | | C#5: x466xx | | D5: x577xx | |B.N.: A strum behind the nut | |N.C.: No Chord played | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO: B.N. B.N. B.N. CHORUS: G5 F5 The Big Three killed my baby G5 F5 No money in my hand again G5 F5 The Big Three killed my baby G5 F5 Nobody's coming home again VERSE 1: G5 G5 G5 N.C. Their ideas make me wanna spit F5 F5 F5 N.C. A hundred dollars goes down the pit G5 G5 G5 N.C. Thirty-thousand wheels are rollin' F5 F5 F5 N.C. And my stick shift hands are swollen G5 G5 G5 N.C. Everything involved is shady F5 F5 F5 N.C. G5 The Big Three killed my baby! F5 G5 F5 Yeah, yeah yeah! CHORUS BRIDGE: G5 G5 G5 N.C. Why don't you take the day off and try to repair F5 F5 F5 N.C. A billion others don't seem to care G5 G5 G5 N.C. Better ideas are stuck in the mud F5 F5 F5 N.C. The motor's runnin' on Tucker's` blood `Preston Tucker, whose revolutionary automobile shop was run out of G5 G5 G5 business by the "Big Three" Detroit automobile manufacturers Don't let 'em tell you the future's electric (Ford, Chrysler and GM) Bb5 Bb5 Bb5 'Cause gasoline's not measured in metric B5 B5 B5 Thirty-thousand wheels are spinnin' C5 C5 C5 And oil company faces are grinnin' C#5 C#5 C#5 Now my hands are turnin' red D5 D5 D5 And I found out my baby is dead! G5 F5 G5 F5 Yeah, yeah yeah! CHORUS VERSE 2: Well I've said it now, nothing's changed People are burnin' for pocket change And creative minds are lazy And the Big Three killed baby! Yeah yeah yeah! VERSE 3: G5 F5 And my baby's my common sense G5 F5 So don't feed me planned obsolescence G5 F5 Yeah my baby's my common sense G5 F5 So don't feed me planned obsolescence (yeah!) G5 N.C. I'm about to have another blow-up! F5 F5 F5 F#5 G5 Yeah N.C. I'm about to have another blow-up! F5 F5 F5 F#5 G5