1985 chords by Bo Burnham

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

E minorEm  D MajorD



🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm         B minorBm
He's a really cool guy
        A minorAm
He’s got a cool shirt
        A minorAm
He's got cool shoes

Did I mention the shirt?
E minorEm         B minorBm
If you ever got the chance to meet him
A minorAm
You'd know why I want to be him
E minorEm            B minorBm
He walks into a room and everyone respects him (Everyone respects him)
A minorAm
He reads the news and doesn’t let that shit affect him (Let that shit affect him)
            B minorBm
He's really happy, he's thrilled to be alive

His name is any white guy in 1985

🎸 Chorus:
E minorEm     B minorBm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 19-80--)
A minorAm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 1985)
E minorEm     B minorBm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 19-80--)
A minorAm
Any white guy, 1985 (White guy)


🎸 Verse 2:
E minorEm          B minorBm
He's got a job and a family; how does he do it?
A minorAm
Balance his work with his wife's underwhelming cooking
E minorEm        B minorBm          A minorAm
He's got all the answers that I wanna know

How can I be what I am but 40 years ago
E minorEm             B minorBm
Gee whiz, he got it and he flaunts
         A minorAm
I am the thing he is, but he isn't when I want
            E minorEm             B minorBm
I guess it's true that some people really got to fight to survive

And some people are white guys in 1985

🎸 Chorus:
E minorEm     B minorBm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 19-80--)
A minorAm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 1985)
E minorEm     B minorBm
White guy, 1985 (White guy, 19-80--)
A minorAm
Any white guy, 1985 (White guy)

Wait!


🎸 Bridge:
E minorEm       G+G
It wasn’t easy being any white guy in 1985
D MajorD                  C majorC
Some white guys were living through the AIDS crisis
E minorEm           G+G
Some white guys were  Italian
      D MajorD
And I’m not saying it's hard being a white guy now
C majorC
 I’ve misspoke

(sung)
E minorEm               B minorBm
I don't mean to lump a group of people in a hive
A minorAm               Ddim7Ddim7
I think I just meant my dad in 1985


🎸 Chorus:
F# minorF#m   C# minorC#m
My dad, 1985 (My dad!)
B minorBm
My father, 1985 (Papa!)
F# minorF#m   C# minorC#m
My dad, 1985
N.C.
Scott Burnham, 1985 (Scott!)
F# minorF#m   C# minorC#m
I wanna be my dad (My dad, 1985) (Scott!)
B minorBm
I wanna be my dad (My father, 1985) (Scott!)
    F# minorF#m  C# minorC#m
In the 80s (My dad, 1985) (Scott!)
  B minorBm
My oblivious white dad in the mid-80s (Scott Burnham, 1985) (Scott!)
F# minorF#m      C# minorC#m
My dad was an oblivious white guy (My dad, 1985) (General contractor!)
B minorBm
My dad was happier than I am (My father, 1985)
F# minorF#m          C# minorC#m
If I could be anybody dead or alive
N.C.
I would want to be my dad in 1985