Capo on 4th fret
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Play the chords like this:
e | ----X----------------X--------------------------------- |
B | ------X------X---------X-----X------------------------- |
G | --------X------X---------X-----X----------------------- |
D | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- |
A | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- |
E | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- |
{Intro}
C5 - A5 - C5 - A5
{Couplet}
C5 E5
Johnny wanna be a big star
A5 F5
Get on stage and play the guitar
C5 E5
Make a little money, buy a fancy car
A5 F5
Big old house and an alligator
C5 E5
Just to match with them alligator shoes
A5 F5
He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues
D5
He's singing songs about material things
G5
And platinum rings and watches that go bling
C5 E5
But, diamonds don't bling in the dark
A5 F5
He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart
C5 E5
Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart
A5 F5
Coz his fans can't relate to his new found art
C5 E5
He ain't doing what he did from the start
A5 F5
And that's foolish cause and feeling it far (????)
D5
He decided to live his life shallow
G5
Passion is love for material
{Chorus}
C5 G5
And its gone... gone... going...
A5 F5
Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
C5 G5 A5 F5
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 -
C5 - A5
Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.
C5 - E5 - A5 - F5
You see yourself in the mirror
And you feel safe coz it looks familiar
But you afraid to open up your soul
Coz you don't really know, don't really know
Who is, the person that's deep within
Coz you are content with just being the na?ve brown man
D5 - G5
And you fail to see that it's trivial
Insignificant, you addicted to material
C5 - E5 - A5 - F5
I've seen your kind before
You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store
Packaged up with inscent sticks
With them vegetarian meals
To you that's righteous
You're fiction like books
You need to go out to life and look
D5 - G5
Coz... what happens when they take your material
You already sold your soul and its...
{Chorus}
C5 G5
And its gone... gone... going...
A5 F5
Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
C5 G5 A5 F5
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 - C5 - A5
Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.
{Chorus}
C5 - E5 - A5 - F5
You say that time is money and money is time
So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
But what about... that crime that you did to get paid
And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain
Why you on about those shoes you'll wear today
D5 - G5
They'll do no good on the bridges you've walked along the way
C5 - C5 - E5
All that money that you got gonna be gone
A5 - A5 - F5
That gear that you rock gonna be gone
C5 - C5 - E5
The house up on the hill gonna be gone
A5 - A5 - F5
The gold burst on your grill gonna be gone
C5 - C5 - E5
The ice on your wrist gonna be gone
A5 - A5 - F5
That nice little Miss gonna be gone
D5 - G5
That whip that you roll gonna be gone
And what's worst is your soul will be gone
{Chorus}
C5 G5
And its gone... gone... going...
A5 F5
Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
C5 G5 A5 F5
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 (2x)
Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.
