The Greeting Committee - Birthday song
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Intro (each line is eight beats)
G
G / C
G / E, G / D
G / C
[Verse 1]
G G / C
Eight years old to the day
G / E
You blew your candles off the cake
G / D G / C
Wishing too hard for them to stay
You burnt the house down
[Verse 2]
G G / C
She held a match, she held a face
G / E
You learned to hate your birthday
G / D G / C
Call it a bitch, despite your wish
They had to separate
[Chorus] (all chords in the first half of the chorus are played with no 5 in the original)
CAnd the roBmom sings
DAnd it souEmnds like leaving home
CAnd the rBmoom sings D
EmWe know something you don't
[Interlude]
G / B drop 5
Em / G drop 1
D / F# drop 5
C / E drop 5
X2
[Verse 3]
G G / C
Now he's quite the stand-up guy
G / E
He stood you up 'least twelve times
G / D G / C
And when he finally does arrive
He brings his new wife
[Verse 4]
G G / C
The family shrink from second floor
G / E
The one he claimed he couldn't afford
G / D G / C
Your mother cries, clings to the floor
You knock his lights out
[Chorus] (all chords in the first half of the chorus are played with no 5 in the original)
CAnd the roBmom sings
DAnd it souEmnds like leaving home
CAnd the rBmoom sings D
EmWe know something you don't
[Interlude] - strings come in here
G / B drop 5
Em / G drop 1
D / F# drop 5
C / E drop 5
X4
[Chorus Reprise]
CAnd the rooBmm sings
DAnd it soundEms like leaving home
CThe rooBmm sings D
EmWe know something yoCu don't
The roBmom sings D
And it souEmnds like there's no love
There is no resolution to G.
Please let me know if anything in here is unclear! This is my first time writing one of these, I just loved
this song so much that I had to figure it out for myself right away, and I figured I'd share if anyone else
wanted to play it.