Serve the Servants 
Words and music by Kurt Cobain 
From Nirvana's In Utero (1993) 
Transcribed by Robert Wolsey 

To play along with the CD (or any boots of the last tour),  
tune down a half step: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb. 

I still don't know the opening chord, but I've pretty  much  
figured out the rest of it, partly by watching the Oakland  
video.  I'm not great at naming chords, so help me out here.  
Here are the fingerings for the chords used:   

       E A D G B E 
Bm7    x 2 4 2 x x 
Em7?   x x 2 4 3 x * 
F#?    2 4 4 3 0 0 *  
E      0 2 2 1 0 0 
A      5 7 7 6 5 5 
C#     x 4 6 6 6 4 
G      3 5 5 4 3 3 

* name that chord! 


Verse riff: 
  Bmin7            Emin7?          F#?            E  
e|-------------------------------------0-----0----0---0---0-| 
B|-----------------------3-----3-------0-----0----0---0---0-| 
G|------2------------4-------4-----3---3---3-3-3--1---1-1-1-| 
D|--4-------4------2---2-----------4-------4---4--2-----2---| 
A|2---2-------2--------------------4-------4---4--2-----2---| 
E|---------------------------------2--------------0---------| 
                                          

Bmin7             Emin7 
Teenage angst has paid off well 

F#                E 
Now I'm bored and old 

Bmin7          Emin7 
Self appointed judges judge 

F#                  E 
More than they have sold 

Bmin7              Emin7 
If she floats then she is not 

F#                  E 
A witch like we had thought 

Bmin7             Emin7 
A down payment on another 

F#             E 
One at Salem's lot 

A          C#           A 
 Serve the servants, oh no 

          C#           A 
Serve the servants, oh no 

          C#           A 
Serve the servants, oh no 

          C#  
Serve the servants 

F#             G                 C# 
That legendary divorce is such a bore 


As my bones grew they did hurt 
They hurt really bad 
I tried hard to have a father 
But instead I had a Dad 

I just want you to know that I 
Don't hate you anymore 
There is nothing I could say 
That I haven't thought before 


 Corrections?  I'll take all the blame at wolser@rpi.edu. 


From rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature Thu Jun 23 09:00:18 1994 
From: pyw100@wileypost.cac.psu.edu (PATRICK Y WANG) 
Date: 23 Jun 1994 03:05:49 GMT 
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature 
Subject: Re: CRD:Serve the Servants-Nirvana(REPOST) 

Robert Wolsey (wolser@magritte.its.rpi.edu) wrote: 
: Reposted by request: 

Serve the Servants.  Actually, this is what I've figured out, attested to by 
the Live and Loud dingo MTV did last New Year's Eve. 

The opening chord eludes me to: 

Eb|------------------|------------------| 
Ab|------------------|-------3-----3----| 
Db|-------2-----2----|----1-------------| 
Gb|----1-------------|--2-------2-----2-| 
Bb|--2-------2----2--|------------------| 
Eb|------------------|------------------| 
    Teenage angst...    has paid off well 


And the the rest of the chords... 

If people want some tabs to most of the songs on In Utero, and I can tab up 
what I've figured out -- and what've I've grabbed from the net. 


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