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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:37:42 -0600
From: ponies2@computek.net (Keith Barron)
Subject: Rusty Cage - Soundgarden

originally by:
Date: 19 Feb 1993 18:57:42 -0700 (MST)
From: Paul Zimmerman 

Rusty Cage
Tuning - BADGBE

Intro: 
|----------------------|--------|-------------------------|-----|
|----------------------|--------|-------------------------|-----|
|-------------14h16p14-|-(14)---|-------14h16-------14h16-|-(16)|
|----------------------|--------|-------------------------|-----|
|-12/14-14h16----------|--------|-12/14-------12/14-------|-----|
|----------------------|--------|-------------------------|-----|

Hold last notes of each bar a while longer first few times.

First and Second Verses:

|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-------------12h14p12--|-------12h14-------12h14--|
|-10/12-12h14-----------|-10/12-------10/12--------|

That is what Kim plays. You could also play the first two verses THIS way to
make it easier. It sounds really good but I don't think it is right.

|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-7/9-9/11-7h9-7--|-7h9-7h9-7h9-7h9-|
|-----------------|-----------------| 
|-----------------|-----------------|

End of each verse:
|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------|
|-15--15--7/12--10--|-(10)----------|-6--6-5-5-3-3-0-0-3-3-3~~--|

Third Verse:
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-0--0-0-0--0-0-3-5-6-7-3-|-0--0-0-0--0-0-3-5-6-7-3-|

Play the above riff a few times and then play this when Chris starts singing
about 3 times then go to the next verse part.

|-------------------------|-------------------|------------------
|-------------------------|-------------------|------------------
|-----------------------4-|-(4)---------2-----|------------------
|-----------------------4-|-(4)---------2-----|------------------
|-----------------------2-|-(2)---------0-----|------------------
|-0--0-0-0--0-0-3-5-6-7---|-------7-6-5-----3-|-0--0-0-0-3-5-6-7-

Fourth Verse Part:
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||             
||o----------------------------------------------o||          
||o----------------------------------------------o||          
||------------------------------------------------||             
||-0---3b-0--5b-0--0-3b-0-3-/6~-3b-0---0-3b-0-5---||             

and then finish up with this:

|-------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------|                   
|---------------16~~|~(16)~~~~~~~~~~~~~------|                   
|-------------------|------------------------|                   
|-------------------|------------------------|                   
|-15--15--7/12--10--|------------------------|   


RUSTY CAGE 

You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil

But I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
I'll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs

I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Hits like a Phillips head into my brain
It's gonna be too dark to sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

When the forest burns along the road
Like God's eyes in my headlights
When the dogs are looking for their bones
And it's raining icepicks on your steel shore

I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run