Chords for John Mayer NY, Beacon Theatre - 6. Why Georgia

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [Bm] The year was _ _ _
_ [D] 2000 _ and there was a record called Room for Squares.
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And it was about this broke kid who didn't know what was going on in his life.
_ [N] And then I made a record that came out today called Battle Studies about a kid who doesn't know what's going on in his life. _ _ _
_ _ Maybe just for one song we could all appreciate the best and the worst of those years coming up.
You know, if you're in my overall age bracket, you know what I'm talking about.
I hope you've all found a way to make ends meet.
_ And maybe we can all remember where we were when it sort of scored the what the F [B] moments.
_ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I am driving, _ 85 in the kind of morning that lasts all [C] afternoon.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Stuck inside the [D] gong. _ _ _ _ _ _
Few more [G] exits to my problem. _
I intend to keep the [C] car in drive and _ _ leave it [G] all [D] behind.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] Cause I _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G]
sometimes, _ [D] about the [C] action, [G] I see [Em] _ _ _ [G] the direction [D] less than [G] I _ [Am] _ [D] am living [A] in.
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] Am I living [A] in a rhyme?
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C]
Why, [G] _ [C] why, George, why? _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I went to war and I feel the spaces, burning faces.
Make a feel, make it feel [C] more like my home.
_ With all I feel [D] for more, _ _ [G] _ I'll be a quarter life [C]
crisis.
_ _ _ Just disturbing [G] in my [D] soul.
Who knows?
_ Either [Em] way.
Cause I _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [G] sometimes, _ _ about [C] the outcome, [Em] I was _ _ worthless.
_ [D] _ And I [Am] _ _ _ [D] live in a rhyme.
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ Why, [F] _ _ _
why, _ [C] George, [G] why? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ Don't believe _ [D] _ [G] me.
Don't you ever [C]
believe in me.
When [Em] I [D] say, why?
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] I [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _
invite you back to my place.
[E] _ [D] It's only [Am] on the curtain, holds my suitcase.
_ [D]
Looks like [E] hope to me, alright.
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] [C] So, Mr.
[Bm] Knight, tell [G] me, why must I be [D] a man in a suitcase? _
[C] Isn't me [D] there with [G] a stranger's [C] face?
Why [Bm] must I be [D] a man in [C] a suitcase?
[E] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [B]
Suppose we bought [G] a thousand.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's our danger.
[C] _ [E] Going _ all the way.
_ _ _ I'm [G] on the [D] page _ today.
_ [Em] Still never in the [D] fair light.
For [G] my friends, there's [E] no place, not [Am] true, at my side.
[D] If I live [A] in a rhyme.
[G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [G] What _ _ _ [F] _ do I do?
_ _ _ _ _ _ Why I [C] dream?
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You sound beautiful.
[G#] _
_ _ Thank you.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _