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No Sleep Till Brooklyn Tab

by Beastie Boys


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	        No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
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Tuning:  standard

sorry no solo
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intro: "No sleep till..."


main riff
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D|-0-0---3-5----7-3----------------------------| X2
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"Brooklyn!"

main riff
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D|-0-0---3-5----7-3----------------------------| X2
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Foot on the pedal - never ever false metal
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
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My job's ain't a job - it's a damn good time
City to city - I'm running outta ryhmyes
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On location - touring around the nation
Beastie Boys always on vacation
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Itchy trigger finger but a stable turntable
I do what I do best because I'm illing and able
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Ain't no faking - your money I'm taking
Going coast to coast - watching all the girlies shaking
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While you're at the job working nine to five
The Beastie Boys at the Garden - cold kickin' it live

Bridge "No Sleep Till..."
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Our manager's crazy - he always smokes dust
He's got his own room at the back of the bus
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Tour around the world - you rock around the clock
Plane to hotel - girls on the jock
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We're thrashing hotels like it's going out of style
Getting paid along the way cause it's worth your while
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Four on the floor - Adrock's out the door
M.C.A.'s in the back because he's skeezin' with a whore
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We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack
With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back
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(play bridge)

chorus
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D|-0--3--5-7-5---0--3--5-7-5-0------|hold the last note for start of verse
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Ain't seen the light since we started this band
M.C.A. - get on the mic my man
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Born and bred Brooklyn - U.S.A.
They call me Adam Yauch - but I'm M.C.A.
Like a lemon to a lime - a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fly women
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Got limos, arena, TV shows
Autograph pictures and classy hoes
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Step off homes - get out of my way
Taxing little girlies from here to L.A.
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Waking up before I get to sleep
Cause I'll be rocking this party eight days a week

(play bridge)

Play chorus a few times)

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