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Pretty On The Insideclouds

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                             Pretty On The Inside / Clouds by Hole
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From 1991's 'Pretty on the Inside'. This is the album closer made up of two songs but
was recorded as a single piece, so I figured I'd give a tab for the entire track as it is
on the album, recorded conjointly. The first song is the title track, "Pretty on the
Inside", which serves as a prologue to a noisy cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now",
under the title "Clouds". Two guitars are used in each song: Courtney Love is playing
the less-distorted rhythm and Eric Erlandson is playing heavily distorted lead and uses a
wah-pedal in "Clouds". Both are actually really easy to play if you can nail the rhythm 
patterns. Listen to the song(s) for help.


Tuning: Standard (played with heavy distortion)


*****PRETTY ON THE INSIDE*****

e|---------------------------------------
B|---------------------------------------
G|---------------------------------------
D|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-------
A|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-------
E|---------------------------------------

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--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10----|
--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8----|
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    Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
    Is she pretty on the inside?
    Is she pretty from the back?
    Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack?
    Is she pretty on the inside,
    Baby, pretty from the back?
    Slutkiss girls, molasses
    Rot blackstrap
    Is she ugly on the inside, baby,
    Ugly, ugly from the back?

    There is no power like my pretty power
    My pretty power
    My ugly

    Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
    Is she pretty on the inside?
    Is she ugly?
    Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly?


****CLOUDS*****

All you do here is repeat the G and C chords throughout the song alternately for its
entire duration; this same chord progression is used for every verse so it's pretty simple.
You can play the open chords if you like, but the G and C power chords work as well. I
believe they play the power chords on the album version. A tab for these chords is
provided below if for some reason you don't know them. A wah-pedal is also used on these
to give them an almost siren-like effect.


(Open chords:)

e|--3---------3---------3------------------------|
B|--3----1----3----1----3----1-------------------|
G|--0----0----0----0----0----0-------------------|
D|--0----2----0----2----0----2-------------------|
A|--2----3----2----3----2----3-------------------|
E|--3---------3---------3------------------------|


(Power chords, if you wanna keep it simple:)

e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-12--------12--------12------------------|
D|-12---10---12---10---12---10-------------|
A|-10---10---10---10---10---10-------------|
E|-------8---------8---------8-------------|


     (Bad boy...)
     Rows and flows of angel hair
     And ice cream castles in the air
     And feathered canyons everywhere
     I've looked at clouds that way

     Moons and Junes and ferris wheels
     The dizzy dancing way you feel when
     When every fairy tale comes real
     I've looked at clouds that way

     But now they only block the sun
     They rain and snow on everyone
     So, so many things that I could have done
     But clouds got in...

     My angel dust gets in your eyes and hair
     On acid stars you're getting there
     My body is assembled into a little gift to you
     When you die
     I've looked at life that way

     But now it's just another show
     You leave 'em laughing when you go
     Don't, don't let them in
     Don't, don't let them know
     Don't give yourself away

     Well, now my friends are acting strange
     They shake their heads, man, they say I've changed
     Well, well something's wrong and rearranged
     From living every, every...

     I've looked at life from both sides now
     From win and lose and still somehow
     It's life's illusions I recall, I...

     I really don't know
     I really don't know
     I really don't know
     I really don't know
     I really don't know life that well
     (Count your stars, say goodnight)

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