Modern World
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
G A C G
G A C G
[Verse 1]
G Am
Sitting alone in his rocking chair with a pistol in his hand
D G
Karl Dane has got nothing left to give
G
You see his face at the picture show
A
In the silent days, the only life that he'd know
D G
But by the middle of April he had no reason to live
G Am
And when he opened his mouth, oh, you'd probably say the same
D G
Invention of sound, and Karl Dane was out of the game
G
Give him a job, five dollars a day
Am
Yeah, the studio said that that was all they would pay
C
And when they found him dead
G
He left himself for no one to claim
[Chorus]
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And you got no place to go
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And it just ain't made for me
[Verse 2]
G
In the show of the freaks, yeah, I would probably guess
Am
You'd find her standing there with hair from her chin to her chest
D G
And then they shut it down, they found it politically incorrect
G
So it was on with the high heels and off with the beard
Am
When she had a good shave she didn't look half weird
D G
So now its nights on the corners just to come up with rent
G Am
And it's a shame the way Marcel would treat her so unkind
D G
She picked up the pipe to make it through the day
G Am
Well you can find her there, face down in the drain
C G
Two inches of water in the grave that she lay
[Chorus]
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And you got no place to go
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And it just ain't made for me
[Verse 3]
G
Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid
G
Ain't no room inside the world for all the things that they did
C
Yeah, Rudolph Valentino, even Cool Hand Luke
G
Just like a king, queen, pharaoh, like a jester or duke
G
Robert Lewis Stevenson and Jekyll and Hyde
A
Ed Gien, The Unabomber, Bonnie and Clyde
C G
Randal McMurphy, I think he flew too high
G
Miles Davis, Ellington, and Holiday
A
Even Dylan's having trouble trying to make it today
C G
It's a shame to say "That's just the way that it goes"
G
Gene Kelly tap-dancing, singing the blues
A
Bootlegging whiskey, prohibition of booze
C G
I don't know what to do, I'll just have to learn I suppose
[Chorus]
G Am
But it's a modern world that we live in
C G
And you got no place to go
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And it just ain't made for me
[Hook]
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
It's a modern world that we live in
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
It's a modern world that we live in
[Chorus]
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And you got no place to go
G Am
It's a modern world that we live in
C G
And it just ain't made for me
How to play Modern World
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