Chords for Todd Snider ~ Money, Compliments, Publicity

_ _ _ _ I don't remember how long ago it was, but I was at my house and I woke up and I was looking at my
little folders where I keep new songs and I saw that I had nine of them.
And it occurred to me, one more, [Ebm] and make an album.
[Ab] I don't know, _ _ _ tour, everything, cheering, [Eb]
lots of it.
_ _ _ [N] So I woke up that morning and I thought, I'm going to make up another song so I can make an album.
Have a song, make an album.
_ _ So [E] I sat down, we have a [Bb] piano over at our [B] house.
Sometimes I make a song from the [Ebm] piano and we sat down and I was like, okay, it's time to say some shit.
_ _ [Eb] _ And nothing happened.
I was like, no.
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It occurred to me, and this took [N] me a long time, I just turned [Eb] 40, I'll be 44 pretty soon, so it took me a long time.
[E] It was a couple years ago, [Eb] at least, I'm in my 40s, first time this [Ab] ever happened to me.
[Bb] I sat down to make up [Eb] a song for no real good fucking reason.
I don't have anything I'm trying to say to nobody, or no message I'm trying to get across to somebody I care about,
or no opinion I'm trying to sneak over, or no story I heard that I thought would [Ebm] be interesting to pass on.
I just want to have [A] a song so that I can make a record.
_ [E]
And I thought, this is how they make [Eb] that fucking country [Ab] music.
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It was exhausting.
_ _ _ And I [Eb] felt convicted as well.
I felt [Abm] embarrassed for [Eb] myself, as I want [F] to do on [Bb] occasion. _
So [Eb] I was sitting there feeling silly for myself, and I remember the book I had just read,
_ [E] where there was a quote from a World War I [B] pilot, and I took the [N] line that he had said and I turned it into this song.
I like to call this song, [D] Song Number 10.
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_ [F] _ _ It's [C] the 11th song on my new album.
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_ [Em] _ _ It [F] _ _ _
_ _ starts like this, though.
[C] A man once said [Em] that the pinnacle of [Bb] success [A] was [Eb] when you finally [Gbm] lost [Fm] interest in [C] money, _ [Em] compliments, [Bb] and publicity.
_ _ _ [C] Good _ _ _
_ [Em] enough idea, I suppose.
[E] How on [D] earth he does this, though?
Heaven [Cm] only knows I know that I would [G] need a lot more of all three of those before I ever have [C] the nerve
to turn up my [E] nose at [Cm] any [B] money, compliments, [G] yet some publicity.
_ [C] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [Gm] _ [F] _ I'm drunk [Eb] as the [Ab] tank of manhood.
_ [Dm] _ Sometimes [C] I'm harder [Eb] to [C] follow.
_ [G] I didn't want to walk to school or take my lunch.
Shit, oh, I'm a watch, [F] it's true.
[Em] You may think you see a man up here looking [Eb] for attention, but you're looking at a man who [G] has lived through a little bit [C] of poverty,
some anxiety, [Gm]
some [Dm] scrutiny.
_ _ _ [Cm] I'll tell you what, if I can [B] just get my money together, _ [Gm] _
[Cm] I'm going to take [F] care of all my friends.
_ [Ab] I'll buy [Eb] an island and a phone line, call and tell them all [E] to get fucked.
[N] I'll never _ have [C] _
[Cm] just a few [G] compliments, [Dm] _ _ _
_ [C] and my [F] publicity is singing with me.
Money, [C] [G] I like [D] compliments, and publicity is [Ebm] actually a bit of an issue for [Fm] me.
I went to [Gm] see this therapist one [F] time, she said, just do the best [G] you can do. _ _ _ _
Do [C] _ _ _ _ the [Cm]
best [F] you can do.
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I was hoping _ for something more [Ab] specific.
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_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ Everyone said [F] that the [E] pinnacle of [Dm] success [N] was when you finally lost it to the rest in money, [G] _ _
compliments, [C] _ publicity.
_ [D] _ _ [C]
Many _ years [Bb] later, another man will say, [Db] all right, [C] I can't, but not for the sake of inspiring [D] men, but rather because he's got [Gm] nine songs and [N] notes he needs to listen.
_ _ _ _ I'm going [F] to get the money, _ [E] _ compliments, [D] and publicity.
[F] You guys said, oh, I want to take it to [C] the plane.
I'm going to get the money, compliments, [F] and publicity.
I've got so many people [C] to thank.
I'd like to thank my [Em] face.
[Am] I'd like to [Dm] thank [F] my hands.
I'm going to get [C] the money, _ _ _ _ compliments, [Dm] and publicity.
[F] I'm going to get the money, _ _ _ [C] _ _ compliments, _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Dm] _ _ and publicity.
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