Chords for Why Hair Metal Got Pounded (and deserved it).
Tempo:
92 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
A
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
And you had the W bands, you know, the White Lions, the White Snakes, the Wingers, the Warrants, and it got so processed and
so
refined that it became [Em] Pablum.
Is [C] this love?
[D] That I'm feeling?
Is this love?
[G] It is.
And then it [D] got even worse because then it was, hey, I got an idea, [G] let's unplug.
Thanks, Tesla.
[D] What's metal about that?
[G] So now all the metal bands are playing acoustic songs.
[Abm] Extreme.
Mr.
[E] Big.
[A] [B]
And then there'd be this whole unspoken thing on MTV like, if you can't unplug, you're not really a musician.
You know what?
You want to see Tracy Chapman or Paul Simon [A] plug into two Marshall Stacks and ride the lightning.
[Ebm] [Gb] As
more and more acts scored commercial success with Power Ballad, pressure [N] from the labels intensified.
[E] The formula was simple.
Metal bands were selling big and selling out.
[G]
[A] I hate that song.
I had no [G] intention of writing that [Bb] song.
The record was done.
[Cm]
The record was called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And Donnie and I had a call up and said, I don't hear the single.
You got to give me a single like Love in an Elevator.
I need something [Ab] like that.
So
[Eb] that night I wrote Cherry Pie.
Sent it to him.
He lived with it over the weekend and [C] all of a sudden the album's called Cherry [G] Pie.
The record's called Cherry Pie.
I'm doing cherry pie eating contests.
The single's Cherry [Ab] Pie, right?
If I'm lying, I'm dying.
And my legacy is Cherry Pie.
[Eb] Everything about me is Cherry Pie.
[Cm] I'm a Cherry Pie guy.
I could shoot [B] myself in the head for writing that song.
[C]
[Bb] My
so
refined that it became [Em] Pablum.
Is [C] this love?
[D] That I'm feeling?
Is this love?
[G] It is.
And then it [D] got even worse because then it was, hey, I got an idea, [G] let's unplug.
Thanks, Tesla.
[D] What's metal about that?
[G] So now all the metal bands are playing acoustic songs.
[Abm] Extreme.
Mr.
[E] Big.
[A] [B]
And then there'd be this whole unspoken thing on MTV like, if you can't unplug, you're not really a musician.
You know what?
You want to see Tracy Chapman or Paul Simon [A] plug into two Marshall Stacks and ride the lightning.
[Ebm] [Gb] As
more and more acts scored commercial success with Power Ballad, pressure [N] from the labels intensified.
[E] The formula was simple.
Metal bands were selling big and selling out.
[G]
[A] I hate that song.
I had no [G] intention of writing that [Bb] song.
The record was done.
[Cm]
The record was called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And Donnie and I had a call up and said, I don't hear the single.
You got to give me a single like Love in an Elevator.
I need something [Ab] like that.
So
[Eb] that night I wrote Cherry Pie.
Sent it to him.
He lived with it over the weekend and [C] all of a sudden the album's called Cherry [G] Pie.
The record's called Cherry Pie.
I'm doing cherry pie eating contests.
The single's Cherry [Ab] Pie, right?
If I'm lying, I'm dying.
And my legacy is Cherry Pie.
[Eb] Everything about me is Cherry Pie.
[Cm] I'm a Cherry Pie guy.
I could shoot [B] myself in the head for writing that song.
[C]
[Bb] My
Key:
G
C
D
A
E
G
C
D
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And you had the W bands, you know, the White Lions, the White Snakes, the Wingers, the Warrants, and it got so processed and
so
_ refined that it became [Em] Pablum.
Is [C] this love?
_ [D] That I'm feeling?
Is this love?
[G] It is.
And then it [D] got even worse because then it was, hey, I got an idea, [G] let's unplug.
Thanks, Tesla.
[D] What's metal about that?
[G] So now all the metal bands are playing acoustic songs.
[Abm] Extreme. _ _ _ _
Mr.
[E] Big.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ And then there'd be this whole unspoken thing on MTV like, if you can't unplug, you're not really a musician.
You know what?
You want to see Tracy Chapman or Paul Simon [A] plug into two Marshall Stacks and ride the lightning. _
_ _ [Ebm] [Gb] As
more and more acts scored commercial success with Power Ballad, pressure [N] from the labels intensified.
[E] The formula was simple.
Metal bands were selling big and selling out.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ I hate that song.
I had no [G] intention of writing that [Bb] song.
The record was done.
[Cm]
The record was called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
_ _ _ And Donnie and I had a call up and said, I don't hear the single.
You got to give me a single like Love in an Elevator.
I need something [Ab] like that.
So
[Eb] that night I wrote Cherry Pie.
Sent it to him.
He lived with it over the weekend and [C] all of a sudden the album's called Cherry [G] Pie.
The record's called Cherry Pie.
I'm doing cherry pie eating contests.
The single's Cherry [Ab] Pie, right?
If _ I'm lying, I'm dying.
_ And my legacy is Cherry Pie.
[Eb] Everything about me is Cherry Pie.
[Cm] I'm a Cherry Pie guy.
_ _ I could shoot [B] myself in the head for writing that song.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] My
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And you had the W bands, you know, the White Lions, the White Snakes, the Wingers, the Warrants, and it got so processed and
so
_ refined that it became [Em] Pablum.
Is [C] this love?
_ [D] That I'm feeling?
Is this love?
[G] It is.
And then it [D] got even worse because then it was, hey, I got an idea, [G] let's unplug.
Thanks, Tesla.
[D] What's metal about that?
[G] So now all the metal bands are playing acoustic songs.
[Abm] Extreme. _ _ _ _
Mr.
[E] Big.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ And then there'd be this whole unspoken thing on MTV like, if you can't unplug, you're not really a musician.
You know what?
You want to see Tracy Chapman or Paul Simon [A] plug into two Marshall Stacks and ride the lightning. _
_ _ [Ebm] [Gb] As
more and more acts scored commercial success with Power Ballad, pressure [N] from the labels intensified.
[E] The formula was simple.
Metal bands were selling big and selling out.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ I hate that song.
I had no [G] intention of writing that [Bb] song.
The record was done.
[Cm]
The record was called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
_ _ _ And Donnie and I had a call up and said, I don't hear the single.
You got to give me a single like Love in an Elevator.
I need something [Ab] like that.
So
[Eb] that night I wrote Cherry Pie.
Sent it to him.
He lived with it over the weekend and [C] all of a sudden the album's called Cherry [G] Pie.
The record's called Cherry Pie.
I'm doing cherry pie eating contests.
The single's Cherry [Ab] Pie, right?
If _ I'm lying, I'm dying.
_ And my legacy is Cherry Pie.
[Eb] Everything about me is Cherry Pie.
[Cm] I'm a Cherry Pie guy.
_ _ I could shoot [B] myself in the head for writing that song.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] My