• Song:

    Average Person

  • Artist:

    Paul McCartney

Intro:[G  A]

 A          D        A
Look at the average person
 Em                        A
speak to the man in the street.
 A        D          A               C
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet? 

[A  C  A]

           A                                  Dm  A
Well, I'm talking to a former engine driver (Dri-ver),
 A                                     Dm-A
trying to find out what he used to do.
 Dm                                      G  Dm
Tells me that he always kept his engine (En-gine),
  A
spit and polished up as good as new.
Dm 
But he said his only great ambition
 A                          Dm
was to work with lions in a zoo.
A                           Dm
Oh, to work with lions in a zoo.

Dm   A    Dm         A
Yes dear, you heard right,
Dm                           G                     A
told me his ambition was to work with lions every night.

[Dm  A  Dm  A  Dm  G  A]

Look at the average person
speak to the man on the beat 
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet? 

[A  C  A]

Well, I met a woman working as a waitress (Waitress),
I asked exactly what it was she did.
Said she worked the summer crowd at seasides (Seasides),
winter time she ran away and hid.
Once she had a hollywood audition
but the part was given to a kid.

Yes,the part was given to a kid.
Yes sir, you heard it right,
hollywood ambition made a starlet grown up overnight.

[Dm  A  Dm  A  Dm  G]

Inter:[Am  G  Bb  F  E]

Well, I bumped into a man who'd been a boxer (Boxer),
asked him what had been his greatest night.
He looked into the corners of his memory (Memory),
searching for a picture of the fight.
But he said he always had a feeling
that he lacked a little extra height
(Could have used a little extra height).

Yes mate, you heard right,
he always had a feeling that he might have lacked a little height.

[Dm  A  Dm  A  Dm  G  A]
[Dm  A] x4

Look at the average person
speak to the man in the queue
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet?

[A  C  A  C  A  C]

Look at the average person.
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