Chords for Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What

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113.85 bpm
Chords used:

Gm

G

C

D

F

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Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What chords
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[G] [C]
[Gm] [G] [C]
[G] [C]
[Gm] [G]
I'm gonna make a chicken gumbo, toss some sausage in a pot.
I'm [Gm] gonna flavor it [C] with okra, [G] cayenne pepper to make it hot.
I know life is good, you make a living, [Gm] so [D]
who's gonna show up?
100%  ➙  114BPM
Gm
123111113
G
2131
C
3211
D
1321
F
134211111
Gm
123111113
G
2131
C
3211
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I'm gonna make a chicken gumbo, toss some sausage in a pot. _ _ _ _ _
I'm [Gm] gonna flavor it [C] with _ okra, [G] cayenne pepper to make it hot.
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I know life is good, you make a living, [Gm] so [D]
who's gonna show up?
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[G] I'm gonna tell my kids bedtime stories, play [Gm] with that fly, _ _ [G] _ _
win and have a happy ending.
_ Maybe, yeah, maybe not. _ _ _ _ _
I tell them life is what you make a living, so beautiful, so [D] what?
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So beautiful, _ _ [G] _ so _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] beautiful, _
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_ _ _ so [F] beautiful, _ [G] so what? _ _ _ _ _
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I'm just a raindrop in a bucket, _ a coin dropped in [C] a slot.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C]
[G] I have an empty house [C] on the east end, cross the [G] road from a dead end lot.
_ _ _ _ I know life is what you make a living, [Gm] so [D] beautiful, so what?
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Ain't that strange the way we're ignorant?
_ How we [G] seek our patented rights?
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C]
[G] How we jigger and I'm [C] figuring, just taking [G] value for the price. _ _ _ _ _
Played gay in the town [Gm] of love, oh, like a [D] terror _ on a dice. _ _ _
[Gm] So _ beautiful, _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Gm] so beautiful, _ _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ _ so [Dm] beautiful, [C] so what? _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] Never thrown in on a balcony, _ only [G] look in the parking lot.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C]
[Gm] Pointing at a figure in the [G] distance, _ Dr.
[Gm] King has just been shot.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
I'm a siren's long melody, singing, save your past, me not. _ _ _ _
[Gm] This day is where we're ignorant now.
[G] How we seek our bad advice?
_ _ _ _ How [Gm] we jigger and I'm figuring, [G] just taking value for the price.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] I played gay in the town of [Gm] love, oh, like a terror on a [D] dice. _ _ _ _
So beautiful, _ _ _ _ so _ beautiful, _ _ _ so beautiful, _ _ _ _ _ so what? _ _ _ _ _
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