Transcribed by: Evan King 
Email: emking522 --at-- gmail --dot-- com

Pretty easy song if you just play the chords. This should be a good jumping-off 
point if you want to go all the way and figure out the picking pattern. I'm 
surprised this song hadn't been done already. Oh well.  A great tune by a band we 
didn't get to hear enough of :(

Intro: G (hold until Ooh-oh, you can hear it change) Am (G D Em 2x)

G (320003@1)                        DUp (xx0232@1)from the basement to my best friend's farm
            EmWhere (022000@1)we'll work so hard, we can do no harm
      G (320003@1)               DWe'll (xx0232@1)till the land and duck our debts
     EmUnderneath (022000@1)soft sun, chewing Nicorette

G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)         Em (022000@1) GThis (320003@1)will be a better year
          D (xx0232@1)         EmThis (022000@1)will be a better year

G (320003@1)                  DMake (xx0232@1)a little money, take a lot of shit
EmFeel (022000@1)real bad, then get over it

G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)         EmThis (022000@1)will be a better year

COh (x32010@1)I keep pushing boulders
GI (320003@1)stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
COh, (x32010@1)I keep feeling older
GI (320003@1)stay game, stay game, stay game

G (320003@1)                       DThe (xx0232@1)East Coast kids, man, we just don't know
        EmSinging (022000@1)wait, wait, stop, drop me, go, go, go
        G (320003@1)                    DBut (xx0232@1)I'm taken by the hand to a blue pay phone
       EmWe (022000@1)can break blue laws with our skin and bones

G (320003@1)                            DAnd (xx0232@1)now I'm back in the city, I'm counting frick frick frick
         EmHeard (022000@1)of milk great things, speaking soft and thick
             G (320003@1)                    DHe (xx0232@1)said, "If life gives you lemons, then thus god bade.
         EmSo (022000@1)put a little bit of bitter in your pink lemonade"

C (x32010@1)                     Cmaj7I'm (x32000@1)sick of thee sheep, I'm sick of thou shepherd
        GSick (320003@1)of dressing like a human when I'm feeling like a leopard
    C (x32010@1)                    Cmaj7I'm (x32000@1)sick of slow rock, I'm sick of quick quips
        G (320003@1)                                                      CSick (x32010@1)of holding on to nothing when I just want to hold your hips

G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)         Em (022000@1) GThis (320003@1)will be a better year
          D (xx0232@1)         EmThis (022000@1)will be a better year

G (320003@1)                  DMake (xx0232@1)a little money, take a lot of shit
EmFeel (022000@1)real bad, then get over it

G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)         EmThis (022000@1)will be a better year

COh (x32010@1)I keep pushing boulders
GI (320003@1)stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
COh, (x32010@1)I keep feeling older
G (320003@1)                               AmI (x02210@1)stay game, stay game, stay game

Then the nah-nahh part uses the C, Cmaj7, G pattern - you can work it out
easily if you listen to the song.