Bouncin’ Betty

Listener notes: 2 Comments on “Bouncin’ Betty”

1. pepper Says:
   May 3rd, 2006

   The song can present as dark and eerie typically with wide open, desolate landscapes. Tons of aural spacing in this song help to give it an apocalyptic feel very similar to that found in the song “Machine Gun” (Band of Gypsys).

   I did some looking.

   I knew there was a landmine called the “Bouncing Betty”. “It was during the Allied actions in Europe that the S-mine gained its cynical nickname Bouncing Betty from American infantrymen. The S-mine had a great psychological effect on Allied forces, because of its tendency to seriously maim infantrymen’s limbs or genitalia rather than killing them. In his book Mine Warfare on Land, Lt. Col. Sloan described the S-mine as “probably the most feared device encountered by Allied troops in the war.” Exact death tolls inflicted by the S-mine are not known, since the Allies did not record whether a death was caused by a particular type of weapon, only whether or not the death occurred in the course of battle. Civilian casualties are even more a matter of speculation.”

   I was not sure if this is what the band had in mind so i looked further and found this.

   “A sweet-looking gal who hides that she’s a natural man-eater. A woman who works relationships and men over, for her own benefit.” http://www.urbandictionary.com.....cing+betty

   

   In the end I guess they are both one in the same…………………
   Great Song! Live, it presents well with rich textures and vivid landscapes.

2. deuce87 Says:
   June 24th, 2006

   This song contains a lot of different sections,
   listen to the song to know when to play each.
   
Intro (and played at various other points):
     E    D         A
------------------------5------------------
-----9---7--------------5------------------
-----9---7--------------6------------------
-----9---7--------------7------------------
-----7---5--------------7---------0h2p0----
-(0)---(0)--3p0-3p0-----5----3p0--------0-

   Repeat ?x:               -->F# G (Only played the first few times)
   ---------------------------------2-3-----
   ---------------------------------2-3-----
   ---------------------------------3-4-----
   ---------------------------------4-5-----
   -----7p6-7p6------5p4-5p4----7-5--
   -0-0-----------0-0--------------2-3-----

   Back to Intro then into a slow (4 beats each):
   E G A

   Verse: (listen to the song to get the timing down)
   E E G E
   E G A E

   You can play these as simple open chords, but JC plays them like a bar chord, but without the finger creating the "bar" (as if you were to simply slide the open E up the fretboard to each chords position) Do what you will


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