Chords for Todd Snider - Talking Seattle Grunge Blues.

[C] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ This next song [G] _ [C] [Em] makes everybody think that I come from Seattle.
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I don't come [G] from Seattle.
_ _ I was actually born in Portland, Oregon and I lived in _ _ California for about a year.
I lived right down the street in San Marcos for a long time.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
Lived in Memphis for a while.
I got a place in Atlanta now.
_ I [G] ain't never lived in Seattle at all.
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ Hey, [C] hey, mama, [G] rock and roll will never die.
You just hang your hair [C] down and your eyes [G] and you'll make a million dollars. _
I was in this band going nowhere fast.
We sent out our demos [D] but everybody [G] passed.
So one day we finally took the plunge.
Went out to Seattle and started playing grunge.
Washington State, that [C] is. _
_ _ _ [D] Space Needle.
Eddie Vedder.
_ [G] Muddin', honey.
_ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Now to fit in [B] fast, [C] we got flannel [G] shirts and we turn our amps up until it hurts.
We got weird [C] attitudes and [G] what's more, when we play, we stare straight down at the floor.
Woo!
_ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] Al Pensive. _ _ _ _
Al Jim Morrison.
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ Now to fit in [C] on the Seattle scene, you gotta [G] show them something that they have never seen.
So thinking [Cm] up a gimmick one day, we [G] decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
Under any [D] _ circumstances, we called it Silence, music's original alternative. _ _
The Roots [G] Crown.
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ Well, we spread the word [C] through the underground [G] that we were the hottest [D] new young band in [G] town.
A record guy come out [C] to see us one day [G] and just like [D] always, we refused [G] to play.
Man, it knocked him out.
_ [C] _ _
He [G] said he [D] loved our work.
He said he loved our work but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record with no songs on it. _ _
_ I said, dude, _ we're from [G] Seattle.
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
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[D] _ _ [G] So they advanced us two and a half million [C] bucks.
[G] Hey, [C] hey, mama, [G] rock and roll [D] will never [G] die.
Hang your hair [C] down and your [G] eyes and you'll make a million dollars.
_ Well, they made us do a [C] video but that wasn't [G] tough because we just filmed [D] ourselves [G] smashing stuff.
It was kind of weird [C] because there was no [G] music but MTV said they'd love to use it.
The kids went wild.
[C] Kids [G] went nuts.
Rolling Stone gave us [D] five stars, said we [G] played with guts.
We're [C] meeting chicks, [G] taking drugs, they [D] asked us to do MTV [G] unplugged, you should have seen us.
_ [C] _ We _ _ [D] _ went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of those electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place. _ _ _ _ _
_ And we smashed our [G] shit.
_ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, we blew them away at the [C] Grammy show [G] by refusing to [D] play and refusing to go.
_ And [G] then just when it [C] looked like fame, it lasts [G] forever, _ along [D] come _ _ Ticketmaster. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Hey, hey, [C] mama, [G] rock and [D] roll will [G] never die.
Hang your [C] hair down and [G] your eyes and you'll make a million dollars.
_ _ _ Well, our band got [C] dropped and that's not funny [G] because now we're hooked on drugs [D] but we're out of money.
_ _ _ [G] So the other day [C] I called up the band.
I [G] said, you guys, I've taken all I [D] can.
I said, we shave off these goatees, _ _ pack the van, _ _ _ _ move back to [G] Memphis. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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