Biography:
Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of Piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997
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Other songs:
- Brick
- Do It Anyway
- Draw A Crowd
- Fred Jones Part 2
- Landed
- Magic
- Not The Same
- The Luckiest
- Air
- Alice Childress
- Annie Waits
- Army
- Away When You Were Here
- Bad Idea
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- Best Imitation
- Bizarre Christmas Incident
- Boxing
- Cigarette
- Dont Change Your Plans
- Eddie Walker
- Emaline
- Erase Me
- Evaporated
- Fired
- Hold That Thought
- Hospital Song
- House
- Jackson Cannery
- Julianne
- Just Pretend
- Kate
- Leather Jacket
- Lonely Christmas Eve
- Luckiest
- Lullabye
- Mess
- Michael Praytor Five Years Later
- Missing The War
- Narcolepsy
- On Being Frank
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- One Down
- Philosophy
- Rain Drops Keep Falling
- Red Is Blue
- Rockstar
- Selfless Cold And Composed
- She Dont Use Jelly
- Silver Street
- Sky High
- Smoke
- Song For The Dumped
- Stevens Last Night In Town
- Stumblin Home Winter Blues
- The Ascent Of Stan
- The Last Polka
- Twin Falls
- Underground
- Video
- War
- Wheres Summer B
- Your Redneck Past
- Youve Got To Learn To Live With What You Are
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...UNDERGROUND... by Ben Folds Five
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*from 'Ben Folds Five' (1995)*
(modified from Brent Ritchey's original tab)
*CAPO 4th FRET*
(Original Key: B)
Intro:
E Em/maj
I was never cool in school; I'm sure you don't remember me.
Em/D D
And now it's been ten years, I'm still wondering who to be.
Cmaj7 Cm/maj
And I'd love to mix in circles, cliques,
G/B C#m7b5
And social cote-ries, that's me. Hand me my nose ring,
G/D D
(Can we be happy?) Show me the mosh pit,
C
(Can we be happy?)
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7
We can be hap-py un -der-ground.
Interlude:
G Gaug G6 Gaug (x2)
Verse 1:
G Gaug G6 G7
Who's got the looks, who's got the brains, who's got everything?
C7 B7 Em7 D#m7 Dm7
I got this pain in my heart that's all.
C Cm7 F7 G
(Hey you, with the long and lonely face),
A#7 C D7sus4
Yeah, there's gotta be something else.
Verse 2:
G Gaug
And let me tell you something else;
G6 G7
There was a girl that passed me by;
C7 B7 Em7 D#m7 Dm7
She gave a smile but I was shy, and I looked down, so down.
C Cm7 F7 G
(Don't look down no, no; go, go under-ground).
A#7 C C/D
But now there's a place to go.
Bridge 1:
G G/F G/E
It's the morning now, it's the evening, it's everything.
D#7 D7
I click my heels, and I'm there...
Chorus 1:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
(Underground, underground, ooh), everything's heavy underground.
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7 D
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Verse 3:
G Gaug
And we'll be decked in all black,
G6 G7
Slamming the pit fantastic.
C7 B7 Em7
Officer Friendly's little boy's got a Mohawk,
D#m7 Dm7 C
And he knows just where we're coming from.
Cm7 F7 G
(It's industrial; work it under-ground).
A#7 C C/D
Get down, get down, get down, yeah!
Chorus 2:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
(Underground, underground, ooh), everything's heavy underground.
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Fmaj7
We can be happy, we can be happy, we can be happy under...
Break:
G Gaug G6 Gaug
Ground.
G Gaug G6 Baug Cmaj7
F7b5
Oh, where can, oh, where can, oh, where can we...
Chorus 3:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
Be? Everything's heavy!
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7 D
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Coda:
G Gaug G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under... ground.
G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under...
G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under... ground.
G6 Gaug
Everything's heavy under...
Coda: (in 6/8 time)
D#13 D7, G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground,
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground,
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground.
Piano Solo:
D#13 D13 G13 F13 D#13 D13 G13,
F#13 F13 E13
D#13 D13 G13 F13, D#13 D13, G
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
E Em/maj Em/D D Cmaj7 Cm/maj G G/B C#m7b5
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
022100 032110 xx0000 xx0232 x32000 x32110 320003 020033 x4545x
G/D C G/A Fmaj7 Gaug G6 G7 C7 B7
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0003 x32010 x00003 x03210 321003 332000 323000 x32310 x21202
Em7 D#m7 Dm7 Cm7 F7 A#7 D7sus4 C/D G/F
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x79787 x68676 x57565 x35543 131211 x13131 x57585 x00010 120033
G/E D#7 D7 A7 F7b5 D#13 Am Bm Cm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
020033 x68686 x57575 575655 12120x xx8688 x02210 x24432 x35543
C#m Dm D13 G13 F13 F#13 E13
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x46654 x57765 xx7577 3x345x 1x123x 2x234x 020120
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
-----------------..................
*from 'Ben Folds Five' (1995)*
(modified from Brent Ritchey's original tab)
*CAPO 4th FRET*
(Original Key: B)
Intro:
E Em/maj
I was never cool in school; I'm sure you don't remember me.
Em/D D
And now it's been ten years, I'm still wondering who to be.
Cmaj7 Cm/maj
And I'd love to mix in circles, cliques,
G/B C#m7b5
And social cote-ries, that's me. Hand me my nose ring,
G/D D
(Can we be happy?) Show me the mosh pit,
C
(Can we be happy?)
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7
We can be hap-py un -der-ground.
Interlude:
G Gaug G6 Gaug (x2)
Verse 1:
G Gaug G6 G7
Who's got the looks, who's got the brains, who's got everything?
C7 B7 Em7 D#m7 Dm7
I got this pain in my heart that's all.
C Cm7 F7 G
(Hey you, with the long and lonely face),
A#7 C D7sus4
Yeah, there's gotta be something else.
Verse 2:
G Gaug
And let me tell you something else;
G6 G7
There was a girl that passed me by;
C7 B7 Em7 D#m7 Dm7
She gave a smile but I was shy, and I looked down, so down.
C Cm7 F7 G
(Don't look down no, no; go, go under-ground).
A#7 C C/D
But now there's a place to go.
Bridge 1:
G G/F G/E
It's the morning now, it's the evening, it's everything.
D#7 D7
I click my heels, and I'm there...
Chorus 1:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
(Underground, underground, ooh), everything's heavy underground.
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7 D
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Verse 3:
G Gaug
And we'll be decked in all black,
G6 G7
Slamming the pit fantastic.
C7 B7 Em7
Officer Friendly's little boy's got a Mohawk,
D#m7 Dm7 C
And he knows just where we're coming from.
Cm7 F7 G
(It's industrial; work it under-ground).
A#7 C C/D
Get down, get down, get down, yeah!
Chorus 2:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
(Underground, underground, ooh), everything's heavy underground.
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Fmaj7
We can be happy, we can be happy, we can be happy under...
Break:
G Gaug G6 Gaug
Ground.
G Gaug G6 Baug Cmaj7
F7b5
Oh, where can, oh, where can, oh, where can we...
Chorus 3:
G A7 C7 G (n.C)
Be? Everything's heavy!
G A7 C7
You been kicked around? Did life bring you down here?
G G/A G/B C G/B G/A G Fmaj7 D
Eve-ry -thing's hea-vy un -der-ground.
Coda:
G Gaug G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under... ground.
G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under...
G6 Gaug G Gaug
Everything's heavy under... ground.
G6 Gaug
Everything's heavy under...
Coda: (in 6/8 time)
D#13 D7, G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground,
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground,
D#13 D7 G Am Bm Cm C#m Dm
Everything heavy under-ground.
Piano Solo:
D#13 D13 G13 F13 D#13 D13 G13,
F#13 F13 E13
D#13 D13 G13 F13, D#13 D13, G
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
E Em/maj Em/D D Cmaj7 Cm/maj G G/B C#m7b5
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
022100 032110 xx0000 xx0232 x32000 x32110 320003 020033 x4545x
G/D C G/A Fmaj7 Gaug G6 G7 C7 B7
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0003 x32010 x00003 x03210 321003 332000 323000 x32310 x21202
Em7 D#m7 Dm7 Cm7 F7 A#7 D7sus4 C/D G/F
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x79787 x68676 x57565 x35543 131211 x13131 x57585 x00010 120033
G/E D#7 D7 A7 F7b5 D#13 Am Bm Cm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
020033 x68686 x57575 575655 12120x xx8688 x02210 x24432 x35543
C#m Dm D13 G13 F13 F#13 E13
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x46654 x57765 xx7577 3x345x 1x123x 2x234x 020120
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
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