Don’t Push by Sublime Lyric and Guitar Chords

Artist – Sublime
Album – Brdaley Nowell and Friends (Acoustic)
Song – Don’t Push (Acoustic)
Tuning – Standard (EADGBe)

This song is comprised of the following chords; these are not progressions. It has a
feel for eigth notes and the strum is a varied mixture of chops.
The three divisions below are patterns the song follows.

A5 A6 D5 D6 E5 E6 F (RIFF 1)

E||--------|--------|------------|--8---|---------------||
B||---------|---------|------------|--10--|---------------||
G||---------|---------|------------|--10--|---------------||
D||---------|--7---9--|---9---11---|--10--|------------7--||
A||--7---9--|--5---5--|---7----7---|--8---|-----7s--9-----||
E||--5---5--|---------|--(0)--(0)--|------|--5------------||

E||---5---|--5--|--7--|--8---|
B||---5---|--6--|--9--|--10--|
G||--(5)--|--7--|--9--|--10--|
D||---7---|--7--|--9--|--10--|
A||---7---|--5--|--7--|--8---|
E||---5---|-----|-----|------|

E||---5---|--3--|-----|--2--|--5--||
B||---5---|--5--|--5--|--4--|--4--||
G||--(5)--|--5--|--5--|--4--|--4--||
D||---7---|--5--|--3--|--4--|--4--||
A||---7---|--3--|--3--|--2--|--2--||
E||---5---|-----|-----|-----|-----||

Here it is completely broken down…

A5A6 (RIFF 1)
Stolen from an africa land

A5A6
Chased out with a knife

D5D6 A5A6
With a face like Bob Marley and a mouth like a motor bike

E5E6 F Am
Oh well the bars are always open and the time is always right

Dm F A5A6
And if God’s good word goes unspoken the music goes all night

And it goes…

If I was Bob Marley I said could you be loved

If I

’m half pint I’m a lord up above

If I

was Mike Tyson I’d look for a fight

If I

was a Boomtown Rat I would be stayin up all night

If I

was the king I’d rock I would get stupid dumb

If

rhymes were valium I’d be comfortably numb

If

rhymes were valium I’d be comfortably numb

Gib

erish

Am A5A6
If I had a shotgun, you know what I’d do

D5D6
I’d point that sht straight at the sky

and shoot

heaven on down for you

Because the

bars are always open and the time is always right

And if God’s

good word goes unspoken the music goes all night

And it goes…

I want a lover but I can’t find the time

I want a reason but I can’t find the rhyme

And I

want to start static but I can’t afford

To

get slammed to the ground I fall off my skateborad

Now a days as clear as you please

Get

strap with protection or strap with disease

strap with protection or strap with disease

I’m

strap with protection strap with disea(se)

uh ooh uh uh uh uh

daooh brah bump buh brump buh bump buh buh

ooooh ooh ooh oooh

ooh ooh ooooh

bah dah dah

dah ba dah ba dah-pa da ba dah

oh I know I know I know

I know I.… know

Ina wanna wanna aauh uooh

bop bop bop bop bop-da da bah

B7 (5 times)

NOTE: When playing the choppy parts in the verses, the A5/A6 and D5/D6 can be played
the fifth and fourth strings open respectively.