Wristband Chords by Paul Simon

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[E] _ _ _ _ [D] I stepped [Db] _
outside the backstage [B] door to [Bb] breathe some [Eb] nicotine
_ _ [Db] They made me check my mailbox _ [G] to see if I can [Gb] be [Eb] free
_ Then I [Db]
heard a click, the stage door [C] locked, [B]
I knew just what that [Eb] meant
_ I'm gonna [Db] have to walk around the [B] block, I wanna [Fm] get in [Eb] a wristband
My [G]
man, you got to have a wristband
[Eb] _ _
_ You [B] don't have a wristband, _ _ _ you don't get through [Bm] the door
[Eb] _ [E] _
_ _ _ Wristband, my man, you [B] got to have a [Bb] wristband _ _
[D] You don't have a [B] wristband, _ _ you don't get through the door
[Bb] _ _ [Em] _
_ I [Db] can't explain it, I don't know why my heart [Bbm] feels [Gb] like a [Eb] fist
_ When I meet some dude with an attitude saying, [Bb] hey, you [Ab] can't do [Eb]
that
Boy, this under [Db] man was large, _ _ [B] a well-dressed six-foot-eight
[Bbm] And he's acting like [Db] St.
_ Peter's standing [Bm] guard at [F] the murder
[Db] _ Wristband, my man, [Eb] you got to have a wristband
_ _ You don't have a wristband, my man, you don't get through the door
_ And _ I said, wristband, _ I said, [D] I don't need a wristband
_ _ My axe is on the bandstand, _ [Db] _ my band is on the floor
_ _ I mean it's just
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_ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Db] the right [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ started slowly [Gb] with the homeless and the lonely [E] then they spread into the heart
[B] _ towns that never get a wristband kids that [F] can't afford the pool [E] grand
[Em] whose anger [Cm] is a shorthand [Db] for you never get a wristband and if you don't have a [Cm] wristband my man
you [E] don't get through the door _ [Cm] you [E] don't get through [Bb] the door [Eb] _ yeah you don't [Bb] get through the door
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_ [B] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _
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_ [Db] _ _ [Bb] so _ _
don't get it
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Abm] _ [Bb] _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ not so
solo solo [Eb] against
_ _ [Ab] some [Bb] _ _
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blues
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] okay
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[Dbm] you _ _ _ _ _ _
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