Superhero Live chords by Stephen Lynch

Chords with lyrics

Title: Superhero
Author: Stephen Lynch
Album: Superhero

Transcribed by K. O. Ovesen
As performed live on Comedy Central

Note 1: When doing the C-C/B-Am thing ("awe-some-van"), the C majorC and C/BC/B
     are each struck just once.
Note 2: In verse 4, the A minorAm is held for one extra beat when he sings
     "Especially Bob!"
Note 3: In verse 4, the guitar for the last four lines are exactly the
     same as the four previous ones.
Note 4: In spoken parts, just hold C.

Chords used:

C:  [x 3 2 0 1 0]
G:  [3 2 0 0 3 3]
Am: [x 0 2 2 1 0]
F:  [x x 3 2 1 1]
C/B: [x 2 2 0 1 0]


Verse 1:

C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
If I could be...

FF     G+G    C majorC
I would be ...

     G+G     A minorAm
I'd fly around the...

  FF      G+G    C majorC
according to...

   FF    G+G     C majorC
And if I saw...

FF       G+G     C majorC
hurting other people...

   FF        G+G     C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
I'd haul them off...

    FF     G+G    C majorC
'cause I would...

Ending:

   FF       G+G  FF   G+G     C majorC   G-C
Yes, then you would be a super hero like me.


You'll have to find the full lyrics somewhere else,
or - even better - make up your own superheroes! Here's
one I wrote both to get you started on this and to show
how the timing goes without worrying about all that copyright
stuff that disgustingly rich and greedy people in the
music industry are so worked up about these days:

C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
If I could be a superhero
FF     G+G     C majorC
I would be President Bush.
          G+G     A minorAm
I'd make the world safer for our great land
  FF      G+G     C majorC
by bombing all others to mush.
   FF     G+G      C majorC
Then we'd never worry 'bout having no oil
  FF      G+G       C majorC
to fuel our big cars that save us from such toil.
   FF       G+G    C majorC C/BC/B  A minorAm
And I would get a big red button to push,
    FF     G+G     C majorC
'cause I would be President Bush.