Bens My Friend chords by Sun Kil Moon

SONG:   BEN'S MY FRIEND
ARTIST: SUN KIL MOON
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL:  GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM


                  BEN'S MY FRIEND
                   SUN KIL MOON


INTRO:  Fm   Eb

VERSE:
Gm7                             Ab
 I woke up this morning, August 3rd
                                         Eb
It's been a pretty slow and uneventful summer

Went to visit a friend in Santa Fe
 Cm                                      Eb
Went to New Orleans and went to see my family
                                Ab
Woke up this morning and it occurred
                                          Cm
I needed one more track to finish up my record
                                   Eb
I was feeling out of fuel and uninspired
                                                   Cm
Laid on my bed, too hung, a little down, a little tired
                                      Eb
Met my girl and we walked down Union Street

I was scared and my head was in a bunch of places
                           Gm7
Bought a $350 pair of lampshades
                                     Ab
And we ate at Perry's and I ordered crab cakes

           Gm7
Blue crab cakes
           Ab
Blue crab cakes
           Gm7
Blue crab cakes


VERSE:
                       Cm                                     Eb
She said I seemed distracted and asked what was going on with me

I said I can't explain it and it's a middle age thing
                                   Bb
She said okay and ate her eggs Benedict
                                                     Ab
And I looked at the walls cluttered with sports bar shit

            Gm7
Sports bar shit
            Ab
Sports bar shit
            Gm7    Bbm7
Sports bar shit

      Gm7
Ba ba ba
      Ab
Ba ba ba
      Gm7    Fm  Eb    Fm  Eb
Ba ba ba


VERSE:
Fm
Got on the phone and I called my mother
                                                  Eb
And called my father, talked a little bit with my sister

She's got a new boyfriend, he's a deer hunter

And she's getting used to venison
Cm
And my dad's still fighting with his girlfriend
 Gm
About his flirting with the girls in Panera Bread
   Eb
My mom is good but sounded out of breath
   Gm                     Fm7          Ab
I worry so much about her, I worry to death
Fm7          Gm7
 I worry to death
                      Ab
I worry about her to death
Fm7          Gm7
 I worry to death


VERSE:
Fm
The other night I went and saw The Postal Service
                                           Eb
Ben's my friend but getting there was the worst

Trying to park and getting up the hill
                                                         Fm
And find a spot amongst the drunk kids staring at their cells

Standing at the back with the crowd of eight thousand
                                    Eb
I thought of Ben when I met him in 2000

At a festival in Spain
                                                      Cm
He was on the small stage then and I didn't know his name

Now he's singing at the Greek and he's busting moves
        Bb                                Eb
And my legs were hurting and my feet were too
                                                    Gm
I called him after, said I'll skip the backstage hi/bye
                                  Fm           Ab
But thanks for the nice music and all the exercise
Fm                          Gm7
And we laughed and it was alright
                            Ab
And we laughed and it was alright
    Fm7        Gm7
And it was alright


VERSE:
                Gm
There's a fine line between a middle-aged guy with a backstage pass
                                            Eb
And a guy with a gut hanging around like a jackass

Everybody there was twenty years younger than me

I'll leave with this, not my fondest memory
   Gm              Ab
I carried my legs back down and then I gave
                            Eb
My backstage passes to two cute asian girls

I drove to my place near Tahoe
 Cm                                                 Fm
Got in my hot tub and I thought well that's how it goes

And it was quiet and I was listening to the crickets

And Ben's still out there, selling lots of tickets
      Eb
And though I?m contented, there?s a tinge of competitiveness

But Ben's my friend and I know he gets it
 Cm
Then in a couple of days my meltdown passed
 Bb                                    Eb
Back to the studio doing twelve hours shifts

Singing a song about one thing or another
  Gm                                     Ab
Another day behind the microphone this summer


OUTRO:
           Fm    Gm7
This Tenderloin summer
                Ab
This Tenderloin summer
                Gm7     Fm
This Tenderloin summer
      Cm7
Ba ba ba
      Ab
Ba ba ba
      Cm    Fm  Eb    Fm  Eb
Ba ba ba