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Wasp Nest Tab

by The National



Capo 3
I use my thumb for the "F#" (the low 2).  Pull the "B" off to "A"
to add some color. More notes at the bottom.

        /    /              /    /      color
---------|--------|--------- ---0---0-|--0---0-|--0------ -0----|
---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ ---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ -3----|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ ---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ -4p2--|
-0----0--|--------|--------- -0----0--|--------|--------- ------|
---------|--------|--------- ---------|--------|--------- ------|
---------|2----2--|3-------- ---------|2----2--|3-------- ------|


               /      /
You’re cussing a storm in a cocktail dress 
               /      / 
your mother wore       when she was young
           /     /
Red southern saint around   your neck
       /     /
A wet martini in a paper cup

                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest
                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest

            /     / 
Your eyes are broken bottles
      /       /
   And I’m afraid to ask
            /    /
And all your wrath and cutting beauty
            /         /
You’re poison in the pretty glass

                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest
                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest

                 /     /
You’re all humming      live     wires 
         /            /
under your killing clothes.
       /      /
Get over here, I wanna 
        /          /
kiss your skinny throat

                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest
                /      / 
You’re a wasp nest

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Notes

There’s more than one guitar, and you start hear added notes like this.
I play this down an octave or drop the chord and move my hand up 
for a moment.

Capo 3
                    or
---0---7p5--------      ---0---0----------|
---3--------------      ---3---3----------|
---2--------------      ---2---4p2--------|
-0----0-----------      -0----0-----------|
------------------      ------------------|
------------------      ------------------|

You might be able to play the flourishes better if you move the
capo to the 8th fret and D chords to A chords.
The problem is you can’t play the G# in the bass

       /    /     or       etc            
---------|--------|---------   -------0--2p0---------------|
---------|--------|---------   ---0---0--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------   ---2---2--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------   ---2---2--------------------|
-0----0--|--------|---------   -0----0---------------------|
---------|?----?--|0--------   ----------------------------|