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The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana

Chords with lyrics

Riff
  Chord diagramFF      Chord diagramG+G    F2
e:----------------------------------|
B:----------------------------------|
G:--2-----2-2---0-------2h3p2---0---|
D:----------------------------------|
A:----------------------------------|
E:----------------------------------|
  1  .  2  .  3  .  4  .


  Pattern 1         Pattern 2
  Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramFF
e:--------------------------|--------------------------|
B:-----------------------1--|--------------------------|
G:--------------0--2--3-----|--------------------------|
D:-----0--2--3--------------|-----------------0--2--3--|
A:--3-----------------------|--------0--1--3-----------|
E:--------------------------|--1--3--------------------|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .   1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
[riff]       [riff]       [riff]       [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramFF

[riff]       [riff]        [tacet]      We passed
along the

Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramFF

stairs         spoke of was and ...
wasn’t

Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |F/c        |F/c

there         he said I was his ....
as a

Chord diagramC majorC         |Chord diagramC majorC         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA [2
beats only!]
surprise        I spoke into his .....
you

Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a
F/c F/e
died alone      a long ....[patterns 1 & 2]
oh...

Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF  F/a
F/c F/e
no       not me          we ....
you’re

Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
face      to face      with the man ....
[riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
[riff]       [riff]       [riff]       [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramFF         |Chord diagramA augmentedA

[riff]       [tacet]     I laughed and ....

Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramA augmentedA

and made my way back home      I searched ....

Chord diagramA augmentedA         |F/c        |F/c        |C/g

for years & years I roamed         I gazed a .....

C/g        |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA [2 beats only] |Chord diagramDmDm

way more than a million years.....

Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e
C/g C/bb
long long   time ago [patterns 1 & 2]        Who ....
not

Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e
C/g C/bb
me,          I never lost control....
to

Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
face,      with the man who ...[riff]  [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a
F/c F/e
[riff]       [riff]      Who ...
we

Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF  F/a F/c F/e |Chord diagramC majorC  C/e C/g C/bb|Chord diagramFF  F/a
F/c F/e
never lost control        you’re ....
with

Chord diagramC#C#         |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
the man who sold the ....[riff]   [riff]       [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
[riff]       [riff]       [riff]       [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
[riff] [slide up to and hold an "e"]            [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF         |Chord diagramFF         |Chord diagramA augmentedA
Chord diagramDmDm
[riff]
[/f......................................\e......\d.....

Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
{d}................/e........................]       [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |F/c        |F/c        |Chord diagramA augmentedA
Chord diagramDmDm
[riff]
[/f....................................\e.......\d....

Chord diagramDmDm         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramA augmentedA         |Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF
{d}................/e............................]     [riff]

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF  |Chord diagramFF         |
[riff]       [end]


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Fo’ A’ That, and A’ That
It’s Comin’ Yet Fo’ A’ That
That Man to Man, the World O’er
Will Brothers Be, Fo’ A’ That

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