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