Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name)

(version 2)

Words & Music:

Chumbawumba

 

The guitar line is from Davey Graham's guitar classic "Anji"; and the bridge is a quodlibet with the tune from the last two lines of "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen". Man, I love this group!

 

Anji riff [repeated for whole song]:

E+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

B+-------------0^1^0----0--------------+-0-------0---------------------------+

G+-------------------2---------------2-+----2--------------------------------+

D+-------------------------------------+-------------------------2-----------+

A+--0------0---------------------------+-------------------------------------+

E+----------------------3---------3----+-1-------1----------0---------0------+

                       _____________     __________

                        4th finger       thumb

 

E+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

B+-------------0^1^0----0--------------+-0^1^0---0---------------------------+

G+-------------------2---------------2-+------2---------------------------2--+

D+---------------------------2---------+-------------------------2-----------+

A+--0------0---------------------------+-------------------------------------+

E+----------------------3---------3----+-1-------1----------0---------0------+

 

Jacob's Ladder... [under the shortened first line of the riff, repeated 2x]

 

Like the summit on the mountain, saved the damned and got dumb.

Hellfire & brimstone swapped for oil & guns.

When we're pushing up daisies, we all look the same.

In the name of the Father, maybe, but not in my name.

 

CHORUS:

On this Jacob's Ladder, the only way up is down.

One step from disaster, two to make the higher ground.

Jacob's Ladder...

 

BRIDGE:

And they sent him to the wars to be slain, to be slain.

And they sent him to the wars to be slain.

 

A million lifetimes left lying in the sun.

In the streets down in Whitehall, dogs picking at the bones.

9/11 got branded, 9/11 got sold.

There'll be no one left to water all the seed that you sowed.

 

CHORUS:

 

BRIDGE: [2x]  then:  CHORUS: [2x]

 

OUTRO:

Jacob's Ladder...  Jacob's ladder...  [repeat under "Anji" Theme]

 

[repeatedly whispered under all that:]

O Bulldog Leader, sooner or later we'll dig up your cellar

And try you for murder...