Capo 4
I'll just write the chord names/notes as they'd look without a capo (a couple of the names are probably wrong
so focus on the shapes themselves):
G6 (3-2-0-0-0-0) and/or (3-5-0-0-0-0) - this way you can slide from (3-5-0-0-0-0) to (1-3-0-0-0-0)
G13/F (1-3-0-0-0-0) and/or (1-5-0-0-0-0)
Em (0-2-2-0-0-0)
D7 (x-x-0-2-1-2)
Cmaj (x-3-2-0-1-0)
Cmaj9/B (x-2-0-0-1-0)
Am7 (x-0-2-0-1-0)
G (3-2-0-0-0-3)
* = hit the 3rd fret on the high E string with the usual chord
(One more note: Mac's tape recording process and pitch shifting sometimes does funny things to the tuning, so
your guitar isn't going to sound exactly the same unless you use varispeed or tune up/down slightly or
something.)
[Intro]
G6 G13/F Em D7
G6* G13/F* Em D7
[Verse 1]
G6 G13/F
Exercise to stay alive
Em D7
Another year has gone and passed you by
G6 G13/F Em D7
G6 G13/F
Waking up to coffee cup
Em D7
Stretch it off, rip it up
G6 G13/F Em D7
[Verse 2]
G6 G13/F
When the old man gets to see it
Em
He'll be whistling
D7
All his worries away
G6* G13/F Em D7
G6 G13/F
And I know just how you see them
Em
Keep believin'
D7
That you'll find your foot someday
G6* G13/F Em D7
[Chorus 1]
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
But you won't, will you boy
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
But no you won't will you boy
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
It's not what you want, is it boy
It's not what you want
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
[Verse 3]
G6 G13/F
Exercise another way
Em D7
To live your life, some other day ahead
G6 G13/F Em D7
G6 G13/F
Sleepin' in the day begins
Em D7
You decide to rise up from your bed
G6 G13/F Em D7
[Verse 4]
G6 G13/F
When the old man gets to see it
Em D7
Understand that all his dreamin' days are gone
G6* G13/F Em D7
G6 G13/F
And I hope now that you'll feel it
Em D7
Your belief in all this nonsense is done
G6 G13/F Em D7
[Chorus 2]
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
But it's not, is it boy
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
No it's not, is it boy
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
So take what you've got, can't you boy
Take what you've got
[Outro]
G6 Cmaj Cmaj9/B Am7 D7
G