Todd Snider - Seattle Grunge Rock Blues Chords

Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

Todd Snider

 
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Hey, hey, my, my 
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Rock n' roll will never die 
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Just hang your hair down in your eyes 
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You'll make a million dollars 

 
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Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast 
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We sent out demos but everybody passed 
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So one day we finally took the plunge 
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Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge 
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Washington state that is... 
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Space needle, Eddie Vedder  
 
Mudhoney 

 
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Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts 
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We turn our amps up until it hurts 
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We've got bad attitudes and what's more 
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When we play we stare straight down at the floor 
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Woweee! Pretty scary 
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How pensive 
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How totally alternative 

 
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Now to fit in on the Seattle scene 
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You've got to do something they ain't never seen 
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So thinkin' up a gimmick one day 
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We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note 
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Under any circumstances 

Silence... 

Music's original alternative 
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Root's grunge 

 
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Well we spread the word through the underground 
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That we were the hottest new thing in town 
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The record guy came out to see us one day 
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And just like always we didn't play 
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It knocked him out 

 
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He said he loved our work 
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He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could 
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Sell a record with nothing on it 
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I said tell 'em we're from Seattle 
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He advanced us two and half million dollars 

 
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Hey, hey, my, my 
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Rock n' roll will never die 
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Hang your hair down in your eyes 
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You'll make a million dollars 



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Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough 
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'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff 
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It's kind of weird 'cause there was no music 
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But MTV said they'd love to use it 
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The kids went wild, the kids went nuts 
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Rolling Stone gave us a five star review 
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Said we played with guts 

 
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We're scoring chicks, taking drugs 
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Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged 
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You should have seen it 

 

We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of
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the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place 
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Then we smashed our s**t 

 
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Well we blew 'em away at the Grammys show 
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By refusing to play and refusing to go 
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And then just when we thought fame would last forever 
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Along come this band that wasn't even together 

Now that's alternative 

Now that's alternative to alternative 
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I feel stupid...and contagious 

 
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Well our band got dropped and that ain't funny 
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'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money 
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So the other day I called up the band 
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I said boys I've taken all I can 
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Shave off your goatees, pack the van 
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We're going back to Athens...