Key: G
Introduction:
C
So during the song, where you see a chord name, what?s really being played is
what?s above, baselines first and the chords strummed, pretty simple but a task
G G/B C D
He gets up real early on his morning drive
G G/B C D
Down to the office for his nine to five
G G/B C
He drives a 94 two-tone economy car
D C
Loves to tell the local boys down at the bar
D
That he?s the critic, yea I can hook ya up
C
I know everyone in the business
G G/B C D
He flunked junior high band he couldn?t march in time
G G/B C D
He tried to write a song once but he couldn?t make it rhyme
G G/B C
He learned 2 or 3 chords on a pawn-shop guitar
D C
He just never quite had what it took to be a star
D
So he?s a critic, yea I work for the Gazette
C
I got a real job
He wrote a five star column on a band you never heard
G G/B C D
So he thought and he thought a little more
G G/B C D
He saw a young hot star headed into town
G G/B C D
Then he hid behind his typewriter and gunned the boy down
G G/B C
Here come the letters, the emails, the faxes
D C
They raised him to 20,000 dollars after taxes
D
He?s a happy critic, yea he?s rollin? in the dough
(rest is spoken over the intro tabbed above)
G G/B C D
This is easy they?re all reading my column
Please don?t tell my momma