Man About A Dog chords by The Whitlams

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

Hook:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G/BG/B  Bm/ABm/A  G+G  D MajorD


🎸 Verse 1:
     G+G      D MajorD        G+G      D MajorD
I had to go into the hills and see a man about a dog
     G/BG/B         D/AD/A       G+G  D MajorD
He said "Get here before the sun goes down"
     G+G      D MajorD        G+G    D MajorD
And so I get into the truck and turn a right at Friday Hut
     Gm6Gm6       G minorGm   G+G  D MajorD
I′ll come home around the town
            G+G     D MajorD
The rain it slapped the land from sleep
    G+G       D MajorD
It was green within a week
     Gm6Gm6    D MajorD
Two birds escort me in
     E minor 7Em7            G+G
The world turning on the flash of a wing

🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm            G+G            B minorBm
 And the worse that it was the better it will be
           C majorC            D MajorD
You held onto the tail and that's a victory
Dm/F             E minorEm
All this talk of how to be happy
      A#A#          D MajorD
And I′m off to see a man about a dog

Hook:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G/BG/B  Bm/ABm/A  G+G  D MajorD

🎸 Verse 2:
      G+G       D MajorD          G+G        D MajorD
And when I get up to the shack first night I hear the big old cat
     G/BG/B  D/AD/A   G+G  D MajorD
Rumbling out at sea
       G+G        D MajorD
Yeah come on take the turn to land
      G+G        D MajorD
Not just a light show and a band
     Gm6Gm6    G minorGm   G+G  D MajorD
It's the soaking we need
      G+G        D MajorD
The farmer dreams of cattle fed
       G+G        D MajorD
Tonight he's working from his bed
    Gm6Gm6      D MajorD
On the roof the heavy drops
         E minor 7Em7      G+G
That′ll break the silence of the frogs

🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm            G+G            B minorBm
 And the worse that it was the better it will be
           C majorC            D MajorD
You held onto the tail and that's a victory
Dm/F             E minorEm
All this talk of how to be happy
A#A#            D MajorD
 But not a little content
Dm/F             E minorEm
Naught 'til ′21's not a pity
      A#A#
When I′m off to see a man
A#A#            D MajorD
Off to see a man about a dog

Hook:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G/BG/B  Bm/ABm/A  G+G  D MajorD

🎸 Verse 3:
      G+G        D MajorD
Old farmer limping down the lane
     G+G      D MajorD
His medal-winner's out again
    G/BG/B   D/AD/A   G+G  D MajorD
And he waves at me
        G+G      D MajorD
And through the wonder of it all
      G+G        D MajorD      Gm6Gm6  G minorGm   G+G   D MajorD
Put on Neil Young at Massey Hall seventy-two or three
       G+G        D MajorD
Yeah and it's dark when I get home
      G+G        D MajorD
And I feel something coming on
   Gm6Gm6    G minorGm
Blindfold
Arvo Pärt
      E minor 7Em7           G+G
I'm taking everyone on that drive I swear

🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm            G+G            B minorBm
 And the worse that it was the better it will be
           C majorC            D MajorD
You held onto the tail and that's a victory
Dm/F             E minorEm
All this talk of how to be happy
A#A#            D MajorD
 But not a little content
Dm/F            E minorEm
I used to love the Greek women
A#A#           D MajorD
 And now I love Greek men
Dm/F          E minorEm
 I′m a Stoic in the morning
A#A#            D MajorD
Out the city gate before long
   Dm/F              E minorEm
Want no part of the new age that's dawning
     A#A#        A#A#
Cause I'm off to see a man, off to see a man
  A#A#            D MajorD
I′m off to see a man about a dog

🎸 Outro:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  Gm6Gm6  G minorGm

      E minor 7Em7           G+G
I'm taking everyone on that drive I swear