Chords for Michael Peter Smith does "Zippy" Gainesville FL May 2010

And I just love working in this setting.
This is great.
It's a beautiful room, isn't it?
Sound great. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you very much.
_ _ See, that's a song title.
_ _ _ _ _ Here it is.
Here?
There.
Good, thank you. _ _ _ _
_ I knew it was here somewhere.
_ [E] _ _
[D#] _ _ [G] _ _ [C#] _ _ [C] _ _
[B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ So your dealer man, Steve Mann, moves to Cleveland, man.
[N] And you trusted that.
It must have [Em] been fate.
[G] _ After all, by now, most of your best [C] friends
are either busted or straight, dead from smoking or drinking.
And you think, man, you're a senior owner.
You want to wean yourself from the wicked weed.
Well, that's all real nice.
But here is some advice.
I do believe that you are going to need
riff that week while you're sleeping there.
Folks have [Gm] taken a key from their freak [F#m] flags for a while.
[E] Yeah, the world's [B] been evolving [G] at a pretty fair [C] clip.
So [B] _ _ [E] 1968.
_ _ Used to be slow [G] and [A#m] groovy and hip.
[C] Now it's [Em] proceeding at a faster rate,
[F#] accelerating [E] like [G] straight.
A friend and fellow [C] hippie here is hoping [F#] that you'll hear it.
[D#] _
_ _ [A#] Think [G#m] you're going to find [G] that life gets [C#] pretty damn [B] zippy
when you quit [Em] doing weed.
_ _ [F#] _ [D] _ _ Life _
[G] gets [Em] pretty zippy when you quit doing weed.
Maine to Mississippi, things is picking up speed.
New York to California, don't be sad.
I didn't warn you.
[E] Atlantic [F#m] to Pacific.
[Em] Let me get specific.
Life becomes a [G] super highway.
[D#] You know you das and linger.
You [C] do less than [G] 90.
Folks is [E] passing [D#] flash and do the [C#m] finger.
_ Seems to me that [G] things is moving and [F#] grooving.
[F] Now they're only [E] moving.
Yes, indeed.
[A] Life gets pretty [C] zippy when [F#] you quit [G] doing weed.
[C] Can you dig it? _ _
_ [Bm] See what I mean?
[F#m] That's it.
Let _
_ [E] [C] me set the [D#m] scene now.
[E] [D#] Sun zips up.
[G] Sun zips down.
[C] Zippy [B] little clouds [Em] zipping over.
Zippy town over.
Palm pilots, [D#] painters, [G] beepers, faxes, and [C] such.
Folks in zippy town [B] are down with [C] keeping in [F#] touch.
[E] _ [D#] Barreling in the [G] SUVs, passing on [C] the right.
Zipping [B] through the zippy [E] day.
Zipping through the night.
Zippity zip, [D#] they get the jobs [G] and money.
Zip, they have the [F#] kids.
Zip, [E] they in the coffin.
Folks is zipping up [Em] the list.
[D] _ _ _
_ _ _ Speaking of lids, [G] man, life [Em] gets pretty zippy
[B] when you quit [Em] doing weed.
Made in [E] Mississippi.
Things is picking up speed.
[G] Mexico City to Toronto, [E] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
Atlantic.
[D] Man, it's getting frantic.
[G] Life becomes a super highway.
[D#] You know you das and fidget.
[Em] You do less than 90.
Folks [E] is passing flash and do [C#m] the digit.
Seems to me [G] that things is mild and [D#] lazy.
[E] Now they're wild and crazy.
You'll [A] can see life gets pretty [G] zippy [D] when you quit [G] doing weed.
[C] Power mowers, leaf blowers, [B] car alarms
blasting so [D] long.
Janis Joplin, hello, Marilyn Manson.
Folks [G] zipping to get married on TV.
Probably in the green.
Zipping down [Em] to the Bahamas.
[G] Zipping [C] back to Carvin on the boom boxes.
Weed whackers, air hammers, trucks going [D] backwards.
Everybody's under construction.
_ Steroids, liposuction, space station, [C] satellites.
Taking pictures [G] day and night.
_ [Em] Upgrades, power walking in your machine
and mind talking _ [C] gridlock.
Three approved.
Bring that cell phone to [B] the loop.
[D] Big brothers CNN.
News to drive you around the bend.
[Am] Green ketchup, you're out of here.
Warming up [G] the atmosphere with grandma's homemade apple pie
[Cm] which has been genetically [D] modified by robot dogs on [A] eBay
who [B] copyright your [E] DNA. _
[D#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Laying back, hay [G] jack, come on, [C#m] get [C] real.
This is great [E] life, this is a great life.
Besides, you made the deal.
Let's see, you got enough [G] left for one last tokel.
[C] I'm happy [F#] for you, man.
I [E] hope it's real good snow.
Well, you put it in the pipe, you [G] light it up
and as it glows, you [A#] hear Judy Collins [E] singing.
Who knows where the [D#] time goes?
[E] Rave on, [G] Judy.
Girl knows [C] how to wail.
Don't sing [Bm] along, [Em] man.
Too late, you [F#] exhale.
[D] _ [Em] Life gets pretty zippy [G#m] when you quit [Em] doing weed.
[C] Maine and Mississippi [E] thinks it's picking up speed.
[G] Roman and Creek and Nova [B] Scotia, man.
[Em] Everything's in motion, man.
Earth and [F#m] hell and heaven.
Better [C] get your motor revving.
[G] Life becomes a super highway.
[D#] Although you do your best,
you [C] find that folks is passing by you
[Gm] with that old familiar [C#m] gesture.
I [G] like to think they're waving goodbye to the [Fm] lava [E] lamp,
the Nauru jacket, love the beat,
strawberry rolling papers, bags [A] of 7C.
[C] Weren't you a Jimi Hendrix [G] experience?
Now you're Kenny G.
[A] Life is [D] pretty zippy [G] when you quit [B] doing weed.
[E] Anybody ask you [G] who wrote the song, boy?
I say [C] Michael Peter Smith.
_ _ [B] _ [Em] _ _
[B] Would the cat want [G] to write a song [C#] about quitting booze?
You [C] give some guys [Gm] a hit of acid,
[B] you never [A] know [G] what they're gonna [F#] do.
[E] What if [D#] I want to learn [D] the tune
and how [C#] the progression goes?
[C] Sorry, man, [B] can't help [E] you.
There are different [D#] chords for different shows.
[E]
If [B] you get the [D] recording, take [C#] a tip from [C] me
before you put it [F#] in the player.
[Em] Lick the CD. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] This song is [Em] called Zippy.
[B] I think it's [C] pretty trippy.
Said [Am] bye, Kibby, to Rodney [E] Allen Rippy.
[C#] Bloopy [B]-blop, bippy, [Em] nippy, noppy, nippy, [A] yippy, [Em] yippy.
You can bet [E] you're bippy [D#] as a little Richard Penniman
said to DJ Alan [C] Fried as Igor [G] Stravinsky said
[E] on [G] front set on [A#] Dray-Z.
[Em] _ _ As Tonto said to [E] the Lone Ranger's favorite nephew,
[A] Dan [D] Reed.
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_ [E] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
[Em] Life's _ [A] _ [D] _ plenty [C]
zippy [E] when _ you [Em] do [F#] weed.
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