Basket Case

Written by Green Day

Key of E · Chords: I IV V iii vi

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# Reviewed by: Cade

Loosely based on the ‘Picking on Green Day” version

original version is in Eb

Intro (verse progression):

Tab

| [E] / [B] / | [C#m] / [G#m] / |
| [A] / [E] / | [B] / / / | (x2)

Verse

E               B       C#m          G#m
Do you have the time to listen to me whine
 A                E                  B
About nothing and everything, all at once
E           B       C#m        G#m
I am one of those melodramatic fools.
   A            E                    B
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it.

Chorus

A           B               E
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A            B                    E
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
   A                B     E         B        C#m
It all keeps adding up, I think I’m cracking up
   A          B            E
Am I just paranoid or am I stoned? (hold 1 chord 4 extra beats)

Breaks:

Tab

| [E] / [B] / | [C#m] / [G#m] / |
| [A] / [E] / | [B] / / / | (x2)

Verse

E           B          C#m        G#m
I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams
    A                 E                      B
She said it’s lack of sex that’s bringing me down.
E           B         C#m              Gm
I went to a whore, he said my life’s a bore
   A               E                        B
So quit my whining ‘cause it’s bringing her down.

Chorus

A           B               E
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A            B                    E
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
   A                B     E         B        C#m
It all keeps adding up, I think I’m cracking up
   A          B            E
Am I just paranoid or am I stoned? (hold 1 chord 4 extra beats)

Bridge

A              B                      E
Grasping to control, so I better hold on. (hold 1 chord 4 extra beats)

Breaks:

Tab

| [E] / [B] / | [C#m] / [G#m] / |
| [A] / [E] / | [B] / / / | (x2)

Chorus

A           B               E
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
A            B                    E
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
   A                B     E         B        C#m
It all keeps adding up, I think I’m cracking up
   A          B            E
Am I just paranoid or am I stoned? (hold 1 chord 4 extra beats)

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