Chords for Talking Seattle grunge band Todd Snider

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_ _ _ _ _ Hey, [C] hey, my my [G] rock and roll [D] will [A] never die [G] just hang your [C] hair down in your [G] ass.
You'll make a million dollars _
Well, I was in this band [C] going nowhere [G] fast.
We sent out [D] demos, but [G] everybody passed
So one day we [C] finally took the [G] plunge moved out to Seattle [D] to play some grunge, [G] Washington State that [C] in
space needle _ [D] Eddie Vedder _ Mud money
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[G] _ _ _ Now to fit in [C] fast we wear [G] flannel shirts we turn our amps up until it hurts
We got bad attitudes [C] and what's [G] more when we play we stare [D] straight down at the [G] floor while we [C] pretty scary
How [D] _ pensive?
_ How totally [G] alternative? _ _
[C] _ [G] Now _ _ _ to fit in on the [C] Seattle scene [G] you got to do something they never seen so thinking up [C] a gimmick one day
We [G] decided to be the only band [D] that wouldn't [G] play and note
Under any [C] circumstances _ _
[D] _ _ _ Silence _ music's original alternative _ roots [G] grunge _
_ [C] _ [G] What _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ we spread the [C] word through the underground [G] that we were the hottest new thing [A] in town
The [G] record guy came out to [C] see us [G] one day and just like always [A] we didn't play [G] it knocked him out
_ [C] He said he loved our work _
[D] He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record with [G] nothing on it.
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_ [D] _ _ I _ _ _
Don't know
He advances two and a half million [G] dollars _ _
[C] _ [D] Hey, [G] _ _ _ _
[C] hey my [G] my rock and roll never die hang your [C] hair down in [G] your eyes you'll make million dollar
Well, they made us do a [C] video, but that wasn't [G] tough because we just filmed ourselves [D] smashing stuff
[G] It's kind of weird because there was no music
But MTV [D] said they'd love to use [G] it the kids went wild the kids [C] went nuts [G] rolling stone gave us a five [D]-star review said
[G] _ [C] We're scoring chicks [G] taking drugs and we [D] got asked to play [G] MTV unplugged you should have seen it
[C] _ _ We went right out there and [D] refused to do acoustical versions of the electrical songs that we refused to record in the [G] first place
_ _ [C] And [D] _ [G] _ _
we smashed our shit
_ [C] Well, _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ we blew him away [C] at the Grammy [G] Show by refusing to [D] play and refusing to [G] go
And then just when we [C] thought fame [G] and last forever long come this [D] band that wasn't even together _
_ _ That's alternative now, that's alternative to alternative
_ _ I feel _ stupid and [G] contagious
Our [C] _ _ [G] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ band got [C] dropped and that ain't [G] funny cuz we're all hooked on drugs, but we're out of money
So the other day I [C] called up [G] the band.
I said boys have [D] taken all I can [G] shave off your goatees
Pack the [C] van
_ We're [G] _ [D] _ _ going back to [G] Athens _
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