Rental Sting

Song: "Rental Sting"

Artist: Archers of Loaf

Album: "All The Nation's Airports" (Alias/Elektra, 1996)

Tabbed by: Bobby Tendinitis (bedwarm@cyberspace.org)

This may or may not be 100% accurate, but sounds pretty close and should

impress your all indie-rock friends. The way I play it is in standard

tuning: E A D G B E

Of course, \ is slide down, / is slide up.

Main Part:

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--------11*-----11----------6-------4---------

------0-------0----0--------------0-----------

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-10-------10----------\-5-----\-3------3-/---- (slide back up, repeat)

* - on a few of the runs through this line, this note is bent up

one step.

Lyrics:

Rental sting, the customer is king

Waste your life, waste your life

Little things can cost you everything

Save your life, save your life

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-2-2-2--22--10-12-10-10-\-5-5-5--55-/-12-14-12-12-\----

-0-0-0--00--8--8--8--8--\-3-3-3--33-/-10-10-10-10-\---- (again, slide down

& repeat)

Repeat Main Part with new lyrics:

Dead and white, our distance is disguised

Mad and sad when it's my misunderstanding

Rental sting, the customer is king

Waste your life, waste your life

Closing part:

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7-7-8-8-9-9-8------------------------

5-5-5-5-5-5-5---7--8--9----5--6--7---

----------------5--5--5----3--3--3--- (repeat to ending)

There's a second guitar picking out some individual, higher notes overtop

this pattern, but this part sounds sufficient on its own.

As always, feel free to correct me or add anything.

bedwarm@cyberspace.org