Todd Snider – Happy New Year chords
Chords:
my first posting, love this song but couldn't find it. so here it is, i think its pretty accurate. You gotta listen to the song to the song to get a good feel. I hate that when i copy this from one place to another the chords jump to different spots! whats up with that? 1 song, 1 page, everything in place - strive for it! Todd Snider - Happy New Year Capo on 5th fretC Ghappy new year everybody there's an overweight man with an overweight womanCon a sofa just watching TV hes yelling his opinion at the television sheDlooks up from her food and agrees they got two bumper stickers on there pickGup truck they keep the pick up parked outside one sticker says "what wouldGjesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power of pride" I was thumbingCthrough the stations on my own television when i come across a guy on theDreligious station singing "somebody's coming" sounding whiter than meG Csomehow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when I wasD G Csuch a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm evangelical agnostic now I don't knowD Gwhat we're doing here you don't know what were doing here, now ChristiansCdon't walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im clutchingD Gmy chest the one my dad told me to and his told him to and I probably pray asCmuch or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but believing andDknowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the wayGa strangers life will have to go I believe this is where i wanna stick toC Dwhat i know which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so just chill til theG Cnext episode now back to the lecture at hand seems like my neighbor wants toDkill what he cant understand I say we cant just kill what we don't understandGbut I turn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since thenC Ddawn of man for countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to see to itGthat clinging to life was our fate and you gotta admit that lifeÂ’s prettyC D Ggreat, but can we deny that its killing us? i'll be here all weekC G C GChappy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like iG Dalways do I aint hurtin youG Cif life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail through a careless shoe youD Gcan't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's never anything theCpoor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the shoe is only goingD Gwhere it has to too if you ain't the dumb kid out running around you kindagotta do what your born to do hey C G CGhappy new year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe IC G DGresolve to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two