Blind Melon - Three Is A Magic Number Chords

Intro: D G A

--First Verse Single Strum Chords--
|D          G             |D        G
Three, oh, it's the magic number,
       |D  G              |D        G|
Yes it is,   it's a magic number.
|D               G               |D        G
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
        |D   G           |D        G|
You get three as a magic number.

--Strumming--
|D                           G           |
The past and the present and the future.
|D                 G       |
Faith and Hope and Charity,
|D                              G
The heart and the brain and the body
         |D     G            |D    G | 
Give you three, It's a magic number.

|D                     G
It takes three legs to make a tri-pod
      |D           G      |
Or to make a table stand.
|D                       G              |
It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle
|D            G   |
Called a tricycle.

|D             G                  |
Every triangle has three corners,
|D             G                 
Every triangle has three sides,
   |D                G  
No more, no less.
          |D              G  
You don't have to guess.
          |D                G
When it's three you can see
             |D       G|D     G|
It's a magic number.

|D                G              D   G|
A man and a woman had a little baby,
          |D   G
Yes, they did.

         |D           G      |D   G
They had three in the family,
                   |D       G|D    G|
And that's a magic number.

|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.

       (Guitar Solo)
|D  G| D  G| D  G| D  G|

|D                       G                           |
(spoken) Now multiply backwards from three times ten

|D                G      |D                  G  |
Three time ten is 30,    three times nine is 27,
|D                   G   |D                   G |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|D                 G     |D                  G   |
Three times six is 18,   three times five is 15,
|D                  G  
Three times four is 12, 
                |Bm             A                  |G 
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E               |A
And three times one is three of course.

|                                         |
(spoken) Now take the pattern once more
|D  G   |D   G|
3-6-9
|D  G   |D   G|
12-15-18

|D  G |
Ah Yeah

(Flute Solo)
|D G |D G |D G |D G |

|D                   G   |D                  G  |
Oh Three time ten is 30, three times nine is 27,
|D                   G   |D                   G |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|D                 G     |D                  G   |
Three times six is 18,   three times five is 15,
|D                  G  
Three times four is 12, 
                |Bm             A                  |G 
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E               |A                         |D      G|
And three times one (what is it?)  THREE!  Yeah!

|D  G |D  G |

|D                G                |D  G
A man and a woman had a little baby.
           |D           G      |D    G
There were three in the family.
               |D
That's a magic number.