"Bastards Of Young" (Paul Westerberg)
Performed by The Replacements
From the album Tim (1985)

CHORDS USED:
G#5(4,6,6,X,X,X)
B5(X,2,4,4,X,X)
F#5(2,4,4,X,X,X)
E5(0,2,2,X,X,X)
C#5(X,4,6,6,X,X)
F#5*(X,9,11,11,X,X)
E5*(X,7,9,9,X,X)
D#5(X,6,8,8,X,X)


[Verse]
G#5 B5 G#5 F#5
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
E5 F#5 B5
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
G#5 B5 G#5 F#5
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
E5 F#5 B5
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten


[Chorus]
E5
Wait on the sons of no one
B5
Bastards of young
E5
Wait on the sons of no one
B5
Bastards of young
F#5 E5
the daughters and the sons

B5

Clean your baby womb, trash that baby boom
Elvis in the ground, there'll ain't no beer tonight
Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten

Wait on the sons of no one
Bastards of young
Wait on the sons of no one
Bastards of young
The daughters and the sons


[Bridge]
B5 C#5

C#5 F#5
Unwillingness to claim us,

F#5* E5* D#5 C#5 B5
ya got no word to name us


SOLO CHORDS: E5 B5 E5 B5 F#5 E5 B5

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons


OUTRO TO THIRD CHORUS:
D#5 C#5 B5 <---played quickly

E5 B5
Yoooooooung


D#5 C#5 B5

E5 B5
Yoooooooung

[Outro]
D#5
Take it it's yours... ect.


INTRO RIFF:

e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|--8-11--8-11--8---------8-11-8-11---|
D|----------------9--11---------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------| X3

e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|--8-11-8-11-------------------------|
D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|


CHORUS RIFF:

e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|--8-11--8-11--8---------8-11-8-11----8--6---------------|
D|----------------9--11---------------------8-6-4---------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|


[Solo]

e|-----------7--9--11--12-------------7-------9---11----12|
B|--9--7--9------------------9--7--9-----9----------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|