Superstar by Blue Rodeo
From the album 1000 Arms
Key of G
[intro]
G F G F G F G F
[Verse]
G C
Here we are in the land of the Superstar
G C
Big dreams and a job in a strippers bar
G C
Come along, don’t worry who you really are
D
‘Cause nobody cares what you left behind
G C
Start a band and get a house in the hills
G C
Find a singer who looks like Kitty Wells
G C
Make a record high on prescription pills
D
Maybe make a movie just to kill some time
[Chorus]
C D G
Take it out, show it ‘round
C D
'Cause you can do things here
Em
You never have to live down
F D
I’m never going back to my one-horse town
G F G F
[Verse]
G C
Start a business organics door to door
G C
‘Cause nobody buys records here anymore
G C
Fall in love with the singer, but what for?
D
These things always end badly, don’t they?
[Chorus]
C D G
Take it out, show it ‘round
C D
'Cause you can do things here
Em
You never have to live down
F D
I’m never going back to my one-horse town
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
D
Ahhhh….
[Interlude]
G F C G C G C D
G C G C G C D
[Verse]
G C
Sleep out in the desert where they keep all the bodies hidden
G C
Take peyote just like Jimmy did
G C
Make a funeral pyre and gasoline will get it lit
D
Say a little prayer for the souls departed
[Chorus]
C D G
Take it out, show it ‘round
C D
'Cause you can do things here
Em
You never have to live down
F D
I’m never going back to my one-horse town
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
D
Ahhhh….
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
G C
Hey, all hail the superstar
D
Ahhhh….
[Outro]
G F G F G F G F G