Chords for 4 Chord Song (CHS Talent Show '10)

_ Now, give it up for Evan, David, Dylan, and Ned.
And who else?
_ _ Oh, no! _ _
_ _ _ _ I didn't want to do that.
I was running out [G] of bullets.
_ Y [Bb] [G]'all need your [D] jokes.
[Em] I [C] _ [N] _ [C] _ [Em] love [G] wood, man.
Hey, [Am] Dave?
[Fm] _ Um, you know what I've wanted my whole life?
[Eb] What's up?
[N] I wanted to be famous.
I really want to be famous.
And what I want more than anything else in my life, I want to write a pop hit.
_ And, um_
What?
How'd you get that?
Look at us.
I don't think we're good enough to write a pop hit.
I mean, it's not that difficult to write a pop hit.
What do you mean?
I'll be writing a pop hit for the last 50 years and it's gonna stay in four chords.
Yeah, no, just do that.
[G]
[D] One, [Em] two, [C] three, four.
Four chords.
[N] _ _ _ _
Um, I don't think we want a piano player in our band anymore.
_ Alright, check it out.
[G] You recognize this?
_ [D] Yeah, man.
It's Ghost of Apohebon [Em] by Journey.
[G] Great song.
[C] _ _ [G] _ [D] You know what I think?
[E] _
[G] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Em] That's cute.
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[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
[Em] Hey, hey, hey.
[C] Hey, hey, [G] hey.
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[Em] _ _ [C] One, [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [Em] _ [C] two, three.
I feel like home [G] when I'm [D] gonna take it.
[Em] No, he [C] ain't gonna take it.
[G] _ _ [D]
Jesus [Em] Christ!
_ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ [A] _ [D] _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Double time?
Double time.
[G] When I'm trying to [D] sell it out to [Em] trouble Mother [C] Mary comes [G] to me.
[D] Sometimes I feel [Em] like I don't [C] have a [G] partner.
[D] I don't [Em] miss it when [C] I'm here.
[G] It's been a while since [D] I've seen some of [Em] you.
It's [C] nice.
[G] And [D] that's the way it's [Em] gotta be.
When [C] the band [G] is on, [D] we'll go riding [Em] on the [C] horses.
Yeah, [G] yeah.
[D] No woman, [Em] no [C] career.
[G] [D] Listen [Em] what I say, [C] oh.
[G] [D] I come from a [Em] land down under.
[C] _
[G] [D] Once a just, [Em] right man can't buy [G] a pair of Bontay [Em] _
[C] Garni.
When I [G] come around, [D] how will [Em] we be on?
[C] When I [G] come around, [D] how will we [Em] be [C] gone?
[G] On [D] the tree.
[Em] _ [C] _ [G] _ [Dm] _ [Em] _
[C] [G] Say _ [Dm] [Em] tonight, you'll take [C] a lot, take [D] me away.
Cause I'm [Em] all this [C] money, [G] man, come on, [D] man.
I [Em] [C] know [G] she's playing [D] with me.
[Em] But [C] that's okay, [G] cause I got no [D] such esteem.
[G] With a thousand [D] eyes and a good disguise.
[Em] It'll wrap between the eyes.
[C] It'll wrap between the eyes.
[G] And I'm not here [D] for your entertainment.
[Em] You don't really [C] wanna mess with me [G] tonight.
And I can't remind, [D] can't remind, of the dirty, [Em] foul, ugly [C] face.
I'm all alone, [G] without my things [D] to cure. _
[Em] You found [C] me, you found [G] me.
She wants to touch [D] the world, she wants to love [Em] and grow.
She's not a little [C] girl.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] I'm one [D] of the few.
This is [Em] how I feel.
I'm cold as [C] ice, can't [G] fly naked all the more.
And blue shoes [D] never change into [Em] something real.
I'm wide awake [C] and active.
[G] I'm more than a bird, I'm more than [D] a plane.
I'm [Em] a bird plane.
[C] I'm [G] a bird [D] plane.
I fly a [Em] bird plane.
[C] _ _ [G] Doesn't that sound familiar?
Doesn't that hit [D] close to home?
Doesn't that make [Em] ship her?
[C] Where do things have gone?
Doesn't that send [G] Julia?
Everyone wants a [D] little more.
It's [Em] something I will remember.
We'll [C] never grow this far.
That's all it takes to [G] be a star.
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