The Magnetic Fields ~ '77 Life Ain't All Bad
NO CAPO
Disc 2, Track 2 from the life-spanning "50 Song Memoir"
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[Intro accordion / piano part]
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[Intro]
Gm
When I write my memoirs
Cm
You will read them with pain and with shame
Cm
You'll be searching in vain for your name
D
For your bleak, insignificant name
Gm
When I write my memoirs
Cm
Which will be of course in verse
Cm
On the subject of you and how awful you are
D Gm
I will be infinitely terse
[Verse]
G Am Am/B
I hope I never run into
C Em
Another piece of shit like you
G Am Am/B
You killed my dog, you killed my mice
C Cm D
You made my house a den of vice
[Chorus]
G
But na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Am
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
C
Na na na na
Cm
Na na na na
G
Life ain't all bad
[Verse]
G Am Am/B
I labored on your ice cream truck
C Em
Whenever I was not at school
G Am Am/B
You mostly used that ice cream truck
C Cm D
To sit there guzzling beer, you tool
[Chorus]
G
But na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Am
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
C
Na na na na
Cm
Na na na na
G
Life ain't all bad
[Verse]
G Am Am/B
You vandalized our brakes and framed
C Em
Me for your theft, and was I blamed!
G Am Am/B
You smashed the bedroom window glass
C Cm D
And stole what you could lift, alas!
[Chorus]
G
Na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Am
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
C
Na na na na
Cm
Na na na na
G
Life ain't all bad
G
Na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Am
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
C
Na na na na
Cm
Na na na na
G Bb Am
Life ain't all bad
G Bb Am G
Life ain't all bad
Enjoy.
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