Acoustic Picks

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
Just to get rid of itself
A / F#m / Dsus2/F# / A F#m / Dsus2/F#

And it wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, wears her out
Dsus2/B A / :

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can’t help feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time

Chord List

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don’t be afraid to care
Leave, but don’t leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
Em A Asus4 / : / : / :

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
C / Bm / Am / G Dm7

Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don’t sit down it’s time to dig another one

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave

Home, home again
I like to be there when I can
When I come in cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire

Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

Wise man say,
Only fools rush in
But I can’t help
Falling in love with you
F Am Dm / Bb F C7 / Bb C7 Dm / Gm F C7 F

Shall I stay,
Would it be a sin?
If I can’t help
Falling in love with you

Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling so it goes,
Some things are meant to be
Am E7 / Am E7 / Am E7 / Am D7 Gm C

Take my hand,
Take my whole life too
For I can’t help
Falling in love with you

I’m sure I’m not the only one who enjoys some Oasis as a guilty pleasure. Not to mention the chords look tough, but are easy to play.

Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should have somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now
Em7 G / Dsus2/A A7sus4 / ::: / Cadd9 Dsus2/A A7sus4

Backbeat, the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I’m sure you’ve heart it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

[Pre-Chorus]
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I
Would like to say to you
But I don’t know how
Cadd9 Dsus2/A Em7 / : / Cadd9 Dsus2/A / G Dsus2/F# Em7 / G A7sus4

[Chorus]
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You’re my wonderwall
Cadd9 Em7 G / Em7 Cadd9 Em7 G / Em7 Cadd9 G / Em7 Cadd9 Em7

Today was gonna be the day
But they’ll never throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow
Realized what you’re not to do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

Chord List

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, the city of angel
Lonely as I am, together we cry
E B C#m G#m A / E B C#m A / E B C#m G#m A / E B C#m A Emaj7

I drive on her streets cause she’s my companion
I walk through her hills cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy
I never worry, now that is a lie

[Chorus]
I don’t ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
I don’t ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
F#m E B F#m / E B F#m / ::

It’s hard to believe that there’s nobody out there
It’s hard to believe that I’m all alone
At least I have her love, the city she loves me
Lonely as I am, together we cry

[Chorus]
Oh no….yeah…and so on
A Am7 G6 Fmaj7 /

Em7 G6

Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
A C / G6 Fmaj7 / :: / :: / ::

A Am7 G6 Fmaj7

Chord List

If you haven’t heard this song, and the odds seem reasonably high that you haven’t, it might be worth your time to check it out.

Elope with me Miss Private, and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping ’round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
F Bb F / Gm Dm / Gm C / Gm C / Bb D / Gm C Dm

San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no play to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you’ve ever read it always makes you cry
The statue’s crying now and well he may

I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the family why not that’s absurd
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”
Maybe, but not what she deserves

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960’s style
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passerby
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away Renee”
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour

Meet you at the statue in an hour

This is more useful for the words than the chords because the chords are about as simple as it gets. Still, this song gets stuck in my head.

Hey there Delilah
What’s it like in New York City?
I’m a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can’t shine as bright as you
I swear it’s true
D / Fm / D / Fm / Bm / G A Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
Don’t you worry about the distance
I’m right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it’s my disguise
I’m by your side

[Chorus]
Oh, it’s what you do me (4x)
What you do to me
D Bm / D Bm / D Bm / D Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I’ll pay thie bills with this guitar
We’ll have it good
We’ll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I’ve got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I’d write it all
Even more in love with me you’d fall
We’d have it all

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they’ve got planes and trains and cars
I’d walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
And we’ll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never be the same
And you’re to blame
G / A / Bm A / G / A / Bm A / G / A / Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don’t you miss me
Two more years and you’ll be done with school
And I’ll be making history like I do
You know it’s all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here’s to you
This one’s for you

Anchorman brings an old classic back in style.

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto’s always been: when it’s right, it’s right
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
/G – / Am7 – / G – / Am7 – /

When every thing’s a little clearer in the light of day
And you know the night is always gonna be there anyway
/ Am7 D7 / Am7 D7

Thinkin’ of you’s workin’ up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
And the thought of runnin’ you is getting so exciting

[Chorus]
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
/ G / D B7 Em / Am7 Bm C D7 G /

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always thought a fish could not be caught who wouldn’t bite
But you’ve got some bait a waitin’ and I think I might
Try nibbling a little afternoon delight

[Chorus]

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around
We could make a lot of lovin’ ‘fore the sun goes down
/ Am7 D7 / Am7 D7 /