So Beautiful Or So What Chords

by Paul Simon
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From Simon's album, "So Beautiful or So What".Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Gm
Capo: no capo
Author jasonutube1975 [a] 198. Last edit on Mar 17, 2021

Chords

Gm7
Gm
F
Emb5
Dm
Fm
G7

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[Intro]
 Gm | % | % | %      x2
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
             Gm7
I'm going to make a chicken gumbo
 
Toss some sausage in the pot
 
I'm going to flavor it with okra
 
Cheyenne pepper to make it hot
 
[Hook]
         Gm7
You know life is what we make of it
 
So beautiful or so what
 
[Verse 2]
 
             Gm7
I'm going to tell my kids a bedtime story
 
A play without a plot
 
Will it have a happy ending?
 
Maybe yeah, maybe not
 
[Chorus]
 
            Gm7
I tell them life is what you make of it
 
So beautiful or so what
 
Gm     F            Emb5 | %
~~ So___ beautiful
Gm     Dm
~~ So___ beautiful
Gm
~~  So what
 
Gm | % | % | %
 
[Verse 3]
 
           Gm7
I'm just a rain-drop in a bucket
 
A coin in a slot
 
I am an empty house on Weed Street
 
Across the road from a vacant lot
 
[Hook]
 
         Gm7
You know life is what you make of it
 
So beautiful or so what
 
[Bridge 1]
 
         Gm7
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
 
How we seek out bad advice
       Gm7
How we jigger it and figure it
 
Mistaking value for the price
 
And play a game with time and love
 
Like a pair of rolling dice
 
[Hook]
 
Gm     F           Emb5 | %
~~  So beautiful
        Gm             F
~~  so____ beautiful
   Gm
So what
 
[Verse 4]
 
Gm
Four men on the balcony
 
Overlooking the parking lot
 
Pointing at a figure in the distance
Fm                           Gm
~~ Doctor King has just been shot
        G7
And the sirens long melody
 
Singing savior pass me not
 
[Bridge 2]
 
         Gm7
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
 
How we seek out bad advice
       Gm7
How we jigger it and figure it
 
Mistaking value for the price
 
And play a game with time and love
 
Like a pair of rolling dice
 
[Hook]
 
Gm     F           Emb5 | %
~~  So beautiful
        Gm             F
~~  so____ beautiful
   Gm
So what
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So Beautiful Or So What – Paul Simon
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