Tabs
Philosophy of the World
Written by The Shaggs
Transcribed, and rewritten by Nick Rineholt
The Philosophy of life is an amazing song, it was quite horrible the
first time I heard it, but after about the 3rd time, I started to like it.
It’s a rather silly song, but has one of the best lyrics “You’re never
gonna please, anybody, in this world”. I could only find one
Shaggs guitar tab on the whole entire internet, so I took it upon
myself to tab this one. By no means is it a perfect tab, it is nearly
impossible to tab exactly what they are playing, since most of the
time they’re not playing real chords… and their instruments aren’t
always tuned, so what I have here is what I think sounds nice.
The riffs are just a small base for the mess that is actually being
played, so if you want the authentic sound, feel free to strum more
than just one string when playing them. The instruments and
equipment being used cannot be found anywhere outside a vintage
store, so distortion (or at least the right amount of gain) is needed.
There’s a completely different riff starting with “oh the girls with
short hair…” I’ll tab it sometime… but you can just squeeze the
1st two riffs in there until then.
Intro
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Guitar Outro
Oh, the rich people want what the poor people's got Riff 1
And the poor people want what the rich people's got Riff 2
And the skinny people want what the fat people's got Riff 1
And the fat people want what the skinny people's got Riff 2
You can never please anybody in this world Riff 3
The short people want what the tall people's got
And the tall people want what the short people's got The little kids want what the big kid's got
And the big kids want what the little kid's got
You can never please anybody in this world
Oh, the girls with short hair want long hair
And the girls with long hair want short hair
Oh, the boys with cars want motorcycles
And the boys with motorcycles want cars
You can never please anybody in this world
It doesn't matter what you do
It doesn't matter what you say
There will always be
One who wants things the opposite way
It doesn't matter where you go
It doesn't matter who you see
There will always be
Someone who disagrees
We do our best
We try to please
But we're like the rest
Whenever at ease
Oh, the rich people want what the poor people's got And the poor people want what the rich people's got And the skinny people want what the fat people's got And the fat people want what the skinny people's got
You can never please anybody in this world
End on 
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