Chords for Adam Ezra "Coverman" Live From Someone's Living Room

Really and I just I wanted to be a professional and I got hired
_ [E] _ _ _ _
[Gm] We got _ [N] hired
We I'm used to playing with a band.
It was just me at the time
I got hired by this bar called Johnny O'Hanlon's in in Chicago to play every Thursday night
Which was like a really big deal for me.
I had like a professional gig.
I was a professional
Musician for the first time I felt really
Excited and I show up to Johnny O'Hagan's the first night and I sit in the corner of the bar with my guitar and my
Microphone and it's a packed bar and I played for like three hours and you know, no one's paying attention to me
They're all hey, I'm the guy in the corner, but I didn't care.
I was fucking playing music.
I'm psyched
I was a professional musician at the end of the night.
The owner comes up to me and he says Adam I _
Don't think it's gonna work
I said how come and he said well, you know, we were we were hoping that you would play
cover songs
And you know, you're just playing your original songs, which are nice and all but you know, it's nobody nobody recognizes
songs and so
_ You know, I didn't want to lose my first gig.
So I was like, all right, I'll tell you what I'm gonna come back next Thursday
I'm gonna learn a whole bunch of cover songs
It'll be great it'll be great.
He said, all right, I'm gonna give it a try.
So so I spent it spent a week _
practicing, you know cover songs
And I went back
The next Thursday and I again I played for three hours
I played every song that I knew in the corner of the bar my guitar my microphone packed bar
Nobody still paying attention to me at all, but whatever I got to the end of this show and the owner comes up to me
That was that was great, thank you.
Hey, man, thank you so much.
I'm glad that you liked it
I just I gotta be I gotta be honest like I I
Think if I'm gonna do this thing, I've got to play I just gotta play [A#] my own music and
[F#] and I remember that moment because
This guy I mean he was the manager of Johnny O'Hagan's, but at that moment
represented the music industry
And like so, you know, I
remember him like
Hearing my words and looking at our we made eye contact and I could tell that I had like won this guy's
Respect, you know and I was like a big moment
_ _ So then he fired me
And [G#m] I went home.
I went home and I was pissed off
[N] And I wrote this song about
About a guy that has spent his whole career playing cover songs and so it's called cover man _
_ _ [Bm] I _ [D] _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] have written many [G] lines _
_ _ [Bm] Lost forever in [G] the bag of time
_ _ And I [D] listen to the tire [G] radio
[Bm] Where I I know my lines will never [G] go
And [D] so I am
[A] _ _ [Bm]
That's you know, [G] that's our show so throw [Bm] them back watch the action
_ _ [E] _ [D] _
_ _ [A] [Bm] New and [E] all they've all been told I've [B] got your evening _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D]
I've _ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ _
been [D] playing 20 [G] years
[E] _
_ [Bm] People listen [G] while they drink their beers
[Bm] _ And [D] I'd like to play the songs it all my own
[Bm] But the owner says to sound [E] familiar to [G] their ears
[D]
And so I [E] am
_ [Bm] That's you know, that's our show so
Watch the [B] action Oh
_ _ [D] _ _
[B] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ Out _ _ _ _ _ _
of high [E] school I work hard _ _
[B] _ Laying concrete [G] and spilling tar
_ [Bm] _ When I hit [D] those chords that rang into my soul
[Bm] _
And I never go [G] back
_ _ [D] _
_ _ [B] _ But [Bm] that's you know, that's our show so throw them back watch the action
_ And
[D] _ _
[B] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[D] I got your evening [G] in my hand
_ [Bm] Come ring
_ [D] _
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[D] Don't soar in the finger the [B] floor.
I'm the man in the mic on the smoky [Bm] bar
Only [D] tells me to play it all [E] through cuz I'm a man does what I gotta do
[Bm] Get the pills in [D] there pay the real [B] time.
I'm the next best thing you will ever [Bm] find
Cover me and crew less can [B] be halfway
_ [D] _
_ _ _ [Bm] The less you move the less I show so throw them back watch the action
[D] _ _ _ _
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[D] I got your [G] evening
I've _ [D] _ got your [G] evening
my
_ _ _ [D]
I've got your [G] ring
in my hand
[Bm] Cover me
_ [D] _ _
_ [Bm] Cover me _
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