Tabs for "Don't Tread On Me"
Don't Tread on Me
written by Hetfield and Ulrich
as performed on Metallica
Rhy. Fig 1---------------------------------------------------------------|
12/8 time
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||-0-0-0-----0-0----|-0-0-0-----0-0----|---------------------5-----0------|
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||-4-4-4-9-9-9-9/11------------------|-7-7-7121212--11------7-----------|
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||-2-2-2-7-7-7-7/9-----8-----9-------|-5-5-5101010---9------5-----------|
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Rhy. Fig. 2
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(end Rhy Fig 2) w/Rhy Fig 2 (2x)
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Riff A w/slide
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Don't tread on me
(end Riff A) Rhy Fig 3
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Liberty or...
(end Rhy Fig 3) w/Rhy Fig 2
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Never begins...
w/Rhy Fig 2 (1st 2 bars only)
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...rage. Say,
Rhy Fig 4
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||-2-222-2-2-2-222-5-2-2-|-2-222-0-2-2-------------|-2---2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-|
||-0-000---0-0-000-3-0-0-|-0-000---0-0-6-0-5-0-3-0-|-0---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-|
don't tread on me So be it
(end Rhy Fig 4)
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||-2---2-2-2-2-2-------0---|-5---5---5-5-5---5--5-|-5---5-----6---0--1-|
||-0---0-0-0-0-0---2-3-----|----------------------|-3---3-----4--------|
threaten no more to secure peace war
w/Rhy Fig 4 (1st 3 bars only)
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|1.
w/Rhy Fig 2 & Riff A
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--------------------| |-------------------- Guitar Solo
| |2. FINE|w/Rhy Fig 2 (2x)
| | 6/8 time 12/8 time
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Don't tread on me!
1/2
F F F
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||---------------/12--11-10\|-15^--15^-----15-12--12--|-15-------------------
||-12-(0)-11-(0)------------|-------------------14^---|---12---------H---14^-
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1/2 1/2
F F F F F F F 2
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(14)-12---------|---12---14^-----12-----------|---12---14^------12----------|
(14)-12---------|14^--12-14^--14^--14^-12~~~~~|14^--14-14^--14^--14^-12~~~~~|
---------14~~~~~|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
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F H P P H P P P H P
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P
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------------|---------------------12-1712121212----P-------|----------------
-14-14~~~~~~|----------------------------------121712121212|-----------H----
------------|----------------------------------------------|12-17-12\1012-10
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H P ph P p h P ph H P
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---10--12/14----------|-------------------------------------------------|
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H F F
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||-16-14----16-14----17-15----17-15----|---19----17-----1517---16^---17^--|
||-16-14----16-14----17-15----17-15----|16----19--------------------------|
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F
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||-0-000-3-0-0-0-000-3-0-0-|-0-000---0-0-6-0-5-0-3-0-|-0-000-3-0-0-0-000-3-00|
Chorus
w/Rhy Fig 4
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So be it threaten... to secure peace ...war
w/Rhy Fig 3 F 1/2 F
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Liberty or...
1/2 1/2 1/2
F F F D.S. (take 2nd ending) al Fine
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||------------------------|-----------------| ^^^
||-14^--14^---14^---12-\--|-------------9---| What this means is go back to
||-14^--14^---14^---12-\--|---------7/9-----| the repeat, take 2nd ending
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tail. So be it,
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