Transcribed by: Evan King
Email: emking522 --at-- gmail --dot-- com
Pretty easy song if you just play the chords. This should be a good jumping-off
point if you want to go all the way and figure out the picking pattern. I'm
surprised this song hadn't been done already. Oh well. A great tune by a band we
didn't get to hear enough of :(
Intro: G (hold until Ooh-oh, you can hear it change) Am (G D Em 2x)
[G]Up from the basement to my [D]best friend's farm
Where we'll [Em]work so hard, we can do no harm
We'll [G]till the land and [D]duck our debts
Under[Em]neath soft sun, chewing Nicorette
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year[G]
This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[G]Make a little money, [D]take a lot of shit
[Em]Feel real bad, then get over it
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[C]Oh I keep pushing boulders
[G]I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
[C]Oh, I keep feeling older
[G]I stay game, stay game, stay game
[G]The East Coast kids, man, [D]we just don't know
Singing [Em]wait, wait, stop, drop me, go, go, go
But I'm [G]taken by the hand to a [D]blue pay phone
We can [Em]break blue laws with our skin and bones
And now I'm [G]back in the city, I'm counting [D]frick frick frick
Heard of [Em]milk great things, speaking soft and thick
He said, "If [G]life gives you lemons, [D]then thus god bade.
So put a [Em]little bit of bitter in your pink lemonade"
I'm si[C]ck of thee sheep, I'm si[Cmaj7]ck of thou shepherd
Sick of [G]dressing like a human when I'm feeling like a leopard
I'm [C]sick of slow rock, I'm [Cmaj7]sick of quick quips
Sick of [G]holding on to nothing when I just want to hold your hips[C]
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year[G]
This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[G]Make a little money, [D]take a lot of shit
[Em]Feel real bad, then get over it
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[C]Oh I keep pushing boulders
[G]I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
[C]Oh, I keep feeling older
[G]I stay game, stay game, stay game[Am]
Then the nah-nahh part uses the C, Cmaj7, G pattern - you can work it out
easily if you listen to the song.
Email: emking522 --at-- gmail --dot-- com
Pretty easy song if you just play the chords. This should be a good jumping-off
point if you want to go all the way and figure out the picking pattern. I'm
surprised this song hadn't been done already. Oh well. A great tune by a band we
didn't get to hear enough of :(
Intro: G (hold until Ooh-oh, you can hear it change) Am (G D Em 2x)
[G]Up from the basement to my [D]best friend's farm
Where we'll [Em]work so hard, we can do no harm
We'll [G]till the land and [D]duck our debts
Under[Em]neath soft sun, chewing Nicorette
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year[G]
This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[G]Make a little money, [D]take a lot of shit
[Em]Feel real bad, then get over it
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[C]Oh I keep pushing boulders
[G]I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
[C]Oh, I keep feeling older
[G]I stay game, stay game, stay game
[G]The East Coast kids, man, [D]we just don't know
Singing [Em]wait, wait, stop, drop me, go, go, go
But I'm [G]taken by the hand to a [D]blue pay phone
We can [Em]break blue laws with our skin and bones
And now I'm [G]back in the city, I'm counting [D]frick frick frick
Heard of [Em]milk great things, speaking soft and thick
He said, "If [G]life gives you lemons, [D]then thus god bade.
So put a [Em]little bit of bitter in your pink lemonade"
I'm si[C]ck of thee sheep, I'm si[Cmaj7]ck of thou shepherd
Sick of [G]dressing like a human when I'm feeling like a leopard
I'm [C]sick of slow rock, I'm [Cmaj7]sick of quick quips
Sick of [G]holding on to nothing when I just want to hold your hips[C]
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year[G]
This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[G]Make a little money, [D]take a lot of shit
[Em]Feel real bad, then get over it
[G]This will [D]be a better [Em]year
[C]Oh I keep pushing boulders
[G]I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
[C]Oh, I keep feeling older
[G]I stay game, stay game, stay game[Am]
Then the nah-nahh part uses the C, Cmaj7, G pattern - you can work it out
easily if you listen to the song.
