• Song:

    Underground

  • Artist:

    Ben Folds Five

  • Album:

    Underground: Pre 1995 D...

Underground Chords by Ben Folds Five

...UNDERGROUND... by Ben Folds Five 
-----------------..................

(modified for Guitar from a tab found on the internet) 


*CAPO 4th FRET*

(Original Key: B)

Intro:
 
E                             
 I was never cool in school.    
Ebaug 
 I'm sure you don't remember me. 
    G/D                                D 
And now it's been ten years, I'm still wondering who to be. 
	Em             Gaug                 
And I'd love to mix in circles, cliques, 
    G/D         C#dim 
And social cote-ries, that's me. 
                       G/D       D                        
Hand me my nose ring. (Can we be happy?) 
                       C                     
Show me the mosh pit. (can we be happy?) 
G   G/A  G/B C   G/B  G/A G   F 
 We can  be  hap-py   un -der-ground. 
 
G  Gaug  G6  Gaug 
G  Gaug  G6  Baug 
 
Verse 1:
 
G              Gaug                 G6           
 Who's got the looks? Who's got the brains?  
          G7aug G7     G7b5 
Who's got every thing? 
C           B7         Em7  Ebm7      Dm7 C/D  F/D   
 I got this pain in my heart,  that's all.              
C                  Cm       F7 	   G        
 (Hey you with the long and lonely face)  
              Bb       C         C/D 
Yeah, there's gotta be something else.     
 
Verse 2:

                    G              Gaug 
And let me tell you something else, 
	    G6                  G7aug G7     G7b5 
There was a girl that passed me by, she gave a 
C                 B7               Em7   Ebm7 Dm7 C/D  F/D
 Smile, But I was shy and I looked down, so   down.  
C            Cm          F7    G 
 (Don't look down no no, go go underground.) 
    Bb            C        C/D 
But now there's a place to go. 
 
Bridge 1: 

G                     G7                      Em                       
 It's the morning now, it's the evening, it's everything. 
Eb7         D7 
 I click my heels and I'm there. 
 
Chorus 1:
 
G             A7                                      
 (Underground,  underground, 
C7 
  Ooo) Everything's heavy underground. 
G                      A7                   C7 
 You been kicked around, did life bring you down here? 
G    A      B       C     G/B   A    G     F       D 
 E - very - thing's hea - vy    un - der - ground. 
 
Verse 3:

                       G          Gaug 
And we'll be decked in all black,  
             G6           G7aug G7     
Slamming the pit fantastic. 
G7b5     C                 B7          Em7            
 Officer Friendly's little boy's got a mohawk, 
       Ebm7       Dm7         C/D         F/D   
And he knows just where we're coming from.  
C         Cm        F7            G 
 (It's in-dustrial, work it under-ground)  
        Bb         C    C/D 
Get down, get down, get down, yeah! 
 
Chorus 2:
 
G             A7                                      
 (Underground,  underground, 
C7 
  Ooo) Everything's heavy underground. 
G                      A7                   C7 
 You been kicked around, did life bring you down here? 
G  A    B       C   G/B   A  G   F      D 
 E-very-thing's hea-vy    un-der-ground. 
          D7
We can be happy, we can be happy, we can be happy underground.  
 
G  Gaug  G6  Baug 
G  Gaug  G6  Baug  
Cmaj7  F7b5 
            Oh where can, oh where can, oh where can we be? 
 
Chorus 3:

(Everything's heavy!) 
G                       A7                  C7 
 You been kicked around, did life bring you down here? 
G  A    B       C   G/B  A  G   F       D 
 E-very-thing's hea-vy   un-der-ground. 
 
(with vocal ad-libs) 

G  Gaug  G6  Baug 
G  Gaug  G6  Gaug  	 
G  Gaug  G6  Baug  
G  Gaug  G6  Baug  
 
Outro: (in 6/8 time) 

Eb13  D7  G  Am  Bm  Cm  C#m  Dm 

Eb13         D7          G      Am  Bm  Cm  C#m  Dm 
  Everything heavy under-ground 
Eb13         D7          G      Am  Bm  Cm  C#m  Dm 
  Everything happy under-ground 
Eb13         D7          G      Am  Bm  Cm  C#m  Dm 
  Everything heavy under-ground 
 

CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   E      Ebaug   G/D      D      Em      Gaug    G/D    C#dim   
   
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE     
 022100  021000  000003  xx0232  022000  321000  000003  xx1212  

  G/A     G/B     C       F       G6     G7aug   G7b5     B7  
  
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE    
 000003  x20033  x32010  133211  332000  321000  32302x  021200  

  Em7     Ebm7    Dm7     C/D     F/D      Cm      F7      G  
  
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE     
 022030  x68676  xx0211  000010  xx0211  x3x04x  131211  320003  

   Bb      G7      Eb7     D7      A7      C7       A       B         
  
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE       
 x13331  323000  x68686  xx0212  x02223  x32310   x02220  x24442     

  G/B      Am      Bm     Cm      C#m      Dm  

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x20033  x02210  x24432  x35543  x46654  x57765
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