There Are Much Worse Things To Believe In chords by Stephen Colbert

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Advanced 🤯

Key: C

Intro:


Piano Intro Lick in Key of C:
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Verse 1:
            C                Caug
There are cynics, there are skeptics
            C6                        C7
There are legions of dispassionate dyspeptics
      F                             Fm
Who regard this time of year as a maudlin insincere
         C                               A7
Cheezy crass commercial travesty of all that we hold dear
           Dm
When they think that
                 Dm7
Well, I can hear it
            Dm6                           G
But I pity them their lack of Christmas spirit
           C                             A7
For in a world like ours, *take it from Stephen (Alt: *So full of grievin')
           Dm          G         C
There are much worse things to believe in.

Verse 2:
     C            Caug
A redeemer and a savior,
     C6                             C7
An obese man giving toys for good behavior
      F                             Fm
The faith in what might be and the hope that we might see
      C                        A7
The answer to all sorrow in a box beneath the tree
            Dm
Find them foolish
     Dm7
Sentimental
             Dm6
Well you're clearly none too bright
              G
So we'll be gentle
       C                           A7
Don't even try to start vaguely conceiving
        Dm          G          C
Of all much worse things to believe in

Bridge:
                 Fm                  C
Believe in the judgment, believe in Jihad
               Fm                                        C
Believe in a thousand variations on a dark and spiteful god
                 Gm                     D
You've got your money, you've got your power
                  Gm                                          D
You've got your science, and planets going to end within the hour
                  Gm                     D
You've got your dreams that don't come true
        Gm               D
You've got the ones that do
Em
Then you've got your nothing
      Em
Some folks believe in nothing
       Em7
But if you believe in nothing
     Em6                                         A
Then what's to keep the nothing from coming for you

Verse 3:
         D              Daug
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
        D6                                 D7
Now if you'll forgive me there's a lot to do here
             G
There are stockings still unhung
         Gm
Colored lights I haven't strung
        D                                 B7
And a one-man four-part Christmas carol waiting to be sung
         Em              Em7
Call me silly, call me sappy
         Em                                  A
Call me many things, the first of which is happy

Outro:
      D
You doubt, but you're sad
   D6
I don't, but I'm glad
   D7           B7
I guess we're even
    Em           A             B7
At least that's what I believe in
                Em         A           D
And there are muuuuuuch woooooorse thiiiiiiings