Chords for Van Halen - David Lee Roth..."As Is Word Jazz"

_ _ As is, is every car that I owned up until Van Halen had sold its first million records.
And keep in mind that when Van Halen had sold its first million records, we still owed a million dollars.
We'll talk about legal a little bit later.
But the cars I owned would routinely cost somewhere between, eh, two, three, four hundred dollars. _ _ _
The $350 station wagon that I bought from Dave Emerson.
The Mercury Comet, the Mercury Vomit, _ as it was known, that broke down on our way to our first dinner.
Once we'd signed a contract with Warner Brothers, we showed up covered with grease. _
We always had to have automobiles, or vehicles rather, that you could load all of your gear into.
_ _ _ _ _ And they always arrived as is.
That was what it said in the ad in the Pasadena Star News. _
As is.
Today, as is is the style.
Three Day Phase, _ _ Pendleton, etc.
And what you hear next is one of the demos.
I wrote the lyric, _ and then I tried it out vocally against some cheesy, tiki bar kind
of organ music that I found on a Rhino collection, just in order to get your mind around it so
you're off book, so you don't have to look at it [Am] on the page.
And when you talk like this, it takes every bit as much effort as it does to start singing.
You know, and you hit it, those high notes.
So you're working the same muscles, etc.,
and you're getting off book on the _ lyric.
When it's time to actually sing, you don't have to ask, what's next?
You don't even have to look at the paper.
As is. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ [Em] Yesterday, I was a bum and broke.
_ [E] Today, I'm a star and broke.
_ _ _ [F] In this town, that's [D] called progress.
[F] That's how we do biz.
_ [B] _
[Em] Requires a degree of acceptance. _
[E] As in, must accept [C#m] as is.
_ [Dm]
I've been rich, [Fm] and I've been poor.
Rich [Em] was better.
Totally better.
_ [C#m] _ [Dm] _ And I've done things [C#] that I [Dm] regret, [Em] but I did them all [D#]
superbly.
_ [Am] No one did them better.
[D] Not ever.
_ _ Sing about being poor, [Am] [Dm] and I'm the hero.
_ _ [G] Why is it when I [D#m] refuse to [Em] be, I suck?
[E] _ _ Is it the [F#] _
love of the [D] craft?
[F] Or just the love of the [B] buck?
_ [Em] Or is it just the word just [A] that's bringing me this bad luck?
_ [F] _ Every day's a rainy day down here. _
_ Don't save up.
_ [B] _ _ [Em]
How expensive you were, or what was you [E] worth?
Ain't no Brinks [A#] truck following no [Dm] hearse. _ _
[Fm] Time to drive my search engine [Em] home. _
[Gm] Drop chopped [C#m] in [Dm] Alabama chrome.
Hey, [A#] what the [Dm] fuck, it [Em] runs.
_ The [D#] day is done, so _ [Am] let's have some fun, so.
[D] _ _ [F]
Please accept [G] this non [G#]-apology [Am] _ for all the shit that's [C#] about to be yours very truly.
_ [D] _
As [F#] is. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ Help!
Help!
[G] Look out.
_ Look right at me. _
_ _ Oh yeah, it's [F#] me. _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ I [E] bought a great big boat and I owned it for about [C#m] 20 minutes.
[F] _
_ [Fm] Belonged to the captain, [C] the cook, and [Am] the kids.
_ [F] I just signed the [Fm] checks, give the [Em] bank a call.
They knows whose [G] it is. _ _
[Am] I did not expect this, but that's how they do [F] business.
Requires [Fm] a degree [Am] of acceptance, I understand.
_ [N] As in, must accept as is.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ Help!
Look out for that [B] boat.
[F] _
[G#] [Am] Woo!
_ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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