Talkin Seattle Blues Chords

[Intro]
G    C
G    D
G    C
G  D G
 
[Chorus]
 G        C
Hey, hey, my, my
 G                   D
Rock 'n' roll will never die
      G                  C
Just hang your hair down in your eyes
        G        D       G
You'll make a million dollars style
 
[Verse 1]
            G                  C
Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast
    G                 D
We sent out demos but everybody passed
    G                  C
So one day we finally took the plunge
       G                 D
Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge
G
Washington State that is...
C
   Space Needle,
D
 Eddie Vedder,
D
  Mudhoney
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
G    D
G    C
G  D G
 
[Verse 2]
        G              C
Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts
    G                 D
We turn our amps up until it hurts
           G                C
We've got bad attitudes and what's more
          G                       D
When we play we stare straight down at the floor
  G
Woweee!
       C
Pretty scary
D
   How pensive,
D
 How totally alternative
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
D    G
 
[Verse 3]
        G                C
Now to fit in on the Seattle scene
              G                         D
You've got to do something they ain't never seen
      G             C
So thinkin' up a gimmick one day
      G                     D                        G
We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note
             C
Under any circumstances
D
   Silence...
 
Music's original alternative
 
Root's grunge
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
G    D
G    C
G  D G
 
[Verse 4]
            G                           C
Well, we spread the word through the underground
     G                         D
That we were the hottest new thing in town
     G                     C
The record guy came out to see us one day
     G               D
And just like always we didn't play
                G
It knocked him out
    C
He said he loved our work
D
  He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could
                               G   C
Sell a record with nothing on it
D
   I said tell 'em we're from Seattle
                                       G
He advanced us two and half million dollars
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
D    G
 
[Chorus]
 G        C
Hey, hey, my, my
 G                   D
Rock 'n' roll will never die
G                  C
Hang your hair down in your eyes
        G        D       G
You'll make a million dollars style
 
[Verse 5]
            G                      C
Well, they made us do a video but that wasn't tough
           G                        D
'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff
      G                     C
It's kind of weird 'cause there was no music
     G                D
But MTV said they'd love to use it
     G                   C
The kids went wild, the kids went nuts
  G                       D
Rolling Stone gave us a five star review
          D
Said we played with guts
         G               C
We're scoring chicks, taking drugs
  G                        D
Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged
                        G
You should have seen it
D
We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of
 
the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
D    G
       Then we smashed our shit
G    C
D    G
 
[Verse 6]
          G                      C
Well, we blew 'em away at the Grammys show
      G                     D
By refusing to play and refusing to go
          G                               C
And then just when we thought fame would last forever
  G                               D
Along come this band that wasn't even together
 
Now that's alternative
 
Now that's alternative to alternative
 
I feel stupid... and contagious
 
[Harmonica Solo]
G    C
G    D
G    C
G  D G
 
[Verse 7]
            G                   C
Well, our band got dropped and that ain't funny
              G                              D
'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money
         G                C
So the other day I called up the band
        G               D
I said boys I've taken all I can
  G                      C
Shave off your goatees, pack the van
 D                            G
We're going back to Athens...
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