Terre Roche - Nobody's Doing The Job
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
G C G
[Chorus]
C G C G
Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing
D7 C G C
Don't you see that's the whole problem?
[Chorus]
G C G C G
Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing
D7 C G C
Don't you see that's the whole problem?
[Verse 1]
C G
The waiter wants to be an actor
D7 G
And the dentist wants to be a violinist
Em D7
The lawyer wants to be just about anything but a lawyer
C G
But still make a fortune and live off the interest
[Verse 2]
C G
The baby wants to be a big girl
D7 G
And the teacher wants to be a performer
Em D7
The dancer used to be the thing she always wanted to be
G
But now she's the maitre d'
[Verse 3]
C G
The businessman wants to be a musician
D7 G
And the housewife wants to be a magician
Em D7
The doctor doesn't want to be a physician
G
But the restaurateur now he's found a cure
C G/B Am G D7
For the nine to five blues____
G
But the messenger he doesn't want to bring the news
[Chorus]
G C G C G
Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing
D7 C G C
Don't you see that's the whole problem?
[Verse 4]
C G
The bus driver wants to win the lottery
D7 G
And the thief has to be what he's gotta be
Em D7
And nobody wants to be a bum
G
The piano player wants to beat the drum
[Verse 5]
C G
Mostly everybody thinks they'd like to be a star
D7 G
Except celebrities in magazines you read
Em D7
That say how difficult it is to be the thing they are
G
And that something else is really what they need
[Chorus]
G C G C G
Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing
D7 C G
Don't you see that's the whole problem?