A Good Life chords by Jill Sobule

Chords with lyrics

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Tabbed by:rainagain
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Tuning: Standard. Capo on 2nd fret.

Sounds good with arpeggios or strumming. This is based on Jill's own great
instructional video she put on youtube.


(Two quick strums, or one fast downwards arpeggio - plucking base note then three
strings - per chord for verse and the chorus; like 2/2 timing. Bridge section is
slower, more like 4/4 timing.)

VERSE:

   G+G   D MajorD    G+G  D MajorD
Tomorrow the ground may shake

    G+G    D MajorD    G+G    D MajorD
Like they said it was bound to happen one day

    G+G    D MajorD    G+G   D MajorD
And the Hollywood sign will fall

  G+G D MajorD   G+G D MajorD
The final call

BRIDGE:

 E minorEm          B minorBm
Well, don't you fret, and don't be blue

 C majorC          C7C7 (add little finger on third fret on G+G string)
You had me and I had you


CHORUS:

 G+G    D MajorD   E minorEm
It was a good life

 C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
It was a good, good life


  G+G     D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD    (for each line)
Tomorrow we could all be gone
When the Russian gangsters sell the bomb
And the waves come roaring from the sea
A augmentedA hundred-foot swells over Venice Beach

  E minorEm          B minorBm
Well, don't be scared, and take my hand

  C majorC            C7C7
We'll swim into the Promised Land

  G+G     D MajorD    E minorEm
It was a good life

  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
It was a good, good life

 G+G     D MajorD    E minorEm
It was a good life

C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
It was a good, good life

G+G     D MajorD     G+G      D MajorD  (for each line)
Tomorrow a tiny cell might grow
In everyone, and it's not the cold
Or the hole in the sky will open wide
The aliens land on the 105


E minorEm
If it comes to that

B minorBm
What can we do?

C majorC           C7C7
You loved me and I loved you

G+G     D MajorD    E minorEm
It was a good life

C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
It was a good, good life

G+G      D MajorD    E minorEm
It was a good life

C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
It was a good, good life

(Then the same chords again for the rest of the song: G, D MajorD Em; C, D, G+G).

I said a boom boom crash crash underneath the overpass
Burning buildings, flying glass
A augmentedA good life
On the day the earth stood still, we won't have to pay our bills
As the mud slides down the hill, a good life
And we won't have to make our beds
Break out the booze, and like I said
Let's have a ball before we're dead
A augmentedA good life
Let the pyres rise above
We'll go down in our sweet love
It was a good, good life