{The net result of all the instruments is G Em7  D, which you can 
 play as 320033 022033 x32033 x00232, but actually, Amy just plays 
 G Em C D, or 320003 022000 x32010 x00232.  In other words, Amy never 
 plays the D variations; that's Emily's part, way up high on the neck.} 
 
G  Em7    D     G  Em7    Dsus - D - D(9) - D 
{intro} 
 

              G                      Em7 
You said the world was magic, I was wide-eyed and laughing 
               D 
  We were dancing up to the bright side 
   G                      Em7 
Forget about your ego, forget about your pride 
                         D          D 
  And you will never have to compromise 
                   G     Em7                       Dsus - D - D(9) - D 
And you were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
 
We talked about our mothers, kissed the wounds of our fathers 

I could've been your sister, I would've been your brother 

You kissed me like I was a soldier headed for war 

I'm a dying man, but I don't know what for {stop} 
 

                   G     Em7                       D 
And you were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
               G               Em7                                       D 
You were only joking,                     you were only joking,       brother 

                      (Wide-eyed and laughing)                  (Dancing...) 
G  Em7    D    G  Em7    D    G  Em7    D 
{guitar solo} 
 
Gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet 

I bruised my heels on the swollen street 

We were girls in bars, boys on the town 

Bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd 
 
You said good friends are hard to come by 

I laughed and bought you a beer, it's too corny to cry 

Well, sentiment given or sentiment lost 

You shake it off with a smirk and a toss {stop} 
                   G     Em7                       D 
And you were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
               G     Em7                       D 
You were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
                   G                 Em7                            D 
And you were only joking,               you were only joking, brother 

                   (Gravel and glass...)         (I bruised my heels...) 
          G                        Em7                            D 
You were joking,                      you were only joking, brother 

    (You kissed me like a soldier...)         (I'm a dying man...) 
                   G           Em7                                  D 
And you were only joking,                  you were only joking, brother 

                    (...dying man, but I don't know what for...) 
                  D                  D {stop} 
And you were only, and you were only, and you were only 
 G    Em7        Dsus - D - D(9) - D     G {stop}   n.c. 
Joking,        brother                            One two three four... 
G  Em7    D     G  Em7    D 
{instrumental} 
G       Em7         D 
Sha-la, sha-la, sha-la, sha-la 
G                   Em7                              D 
Sha-la,             sha-la,      sha-la,                 sha-la 

    (Wide-eyed and laughing)         (Dancing up to the bright side) 
 
{repeat and fade} 
 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com