{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.} 
 
G5  E5    D5     G5  E5    D5 - D5 - D5 - D5 
{intro} 
 

              G5                      E5 
You said the world was magic, I was wide-eyed and laughing 
               D5 
  We were dancing up to the bright side 
   G5                      E5 
Forget about your ego, forget about your pride 
                         D5          D5 
  And you will never have to compromise 
                   G5     E5                       D5 - D5 - D5 - D5 
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} 
 

                   G5     E5                       D5 
And you were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
               G5               E5                                       D5 
You were only joking,                     you were only joking,       brother 

                      (Wide-eyed and laughing)                  (Dancing...) 
G5  E5    D5    G5  E5    D5    G5  E5    D5 
{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} 
                   G5     E5                       D5 
And you were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
               G5     E5                       D5 
You were only joking, you were only joking, brother 
                   G5                 E5                            D5 
And you were only joking,               you were only joking, brother 

                   (Gravel and glass...)         (I bruised my heels...) 
          G5                        E5                            D5 
You were joking,                      you were only joking, brother 

    (You kissed me like a soldier...)         (I'm a dying man...) 
                   G5           E5                                  D5 
And you were only joking,                  you were only joking, brother 

                    (...dying man, but I don't know what for...) 
                  D5                  D5 {stop} 
And you were only, and you were only, and you were only 
 G5    E5        D5 - D5 - D5 - D5     G5 {stop}   n.c. 
Joking,        brother                            One two three four... 
G5  E5    D5     G5  E5    D5 
{instrumental} 
G5       E5         D5 
Sha-la, sha-la, sha-la, sha-la 
G5                   E5                              D5 
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