Hollywood Hopeful chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
D          C
I am a full fledged, grown-up adult
  C               D
I'm tryin' make a dent, tryin' to get a result
D             Am
I'm hold up in a Hollywood hotel suite
C            D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

D (with hammer-on)

     D             C
They got all kinds of victories and lots of downfalls
     C           D
They got drugs in the rugs and ghosts in the walls
D               Am
Starlets in the lobby that can make a man drool
C              D
Blood on the curtains and a phone by the pool

D (with hammer-on) Am C D

Verse:
D              C
Well I never did see so many TV stars
   C           D
And I never did see so many rented cars
 D           Am
I never did see so many desperate eyes
   C           D
And I never did hear so many bold faced lies

D (with hammer-on)

      D       Am
When I was ten years old, I was alive
    C            D
And the Benedict Canyon down on Hutton Drive
   D            Am
Well now I'm right back in my old backyard
    C                D
And I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard
  C                D
I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard

D (with hammer-on) Am C D
D (with hammer-on) Am C D

Verse:
    D                C
Well I never thought I'd see the age of twenty-five
       C              D
And it's been twenty-eight years now that I've been alive
     D             Am
And in a matter of months I will be thirty years old
    C              D
And the apprehension that I feel can hardly be told

D (with hammer-on)

D          C
I am a full fledged, grown-up adult
  C               D
I'm tryin' make a dent, tryin' to get a result
  D           Am (hold)
I'm hold up in a Hollywood hotel suite
  C          D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat
  C          D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

D (with hammer-on) Am C D