Happy New Year chords - Todd Snider

How to Play "Happy New Year" Guitar chords

Capo 5 - Album version


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Happy New Year everybody


G 
Theres an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa watching TV
     C
He's yelling his opinion at the television she looks up from her food and agrees
         D
They got two bumper stickers on their pick up truck, they keep the pick up parked outside
G
One sticker says "What would Jesus do?", the other bumper sticker says "Power of Pride"

      G
I was thumbing through the stations on my own television
       C
When I come across a guy on this religous station
         D                                                 G
Singing "Somebody's Coming", he sounded whiter than me somehow - wow

           G
It took me back in time through dwindling joy

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        C
To when I was such a guilt ridden Catholic boy
D                        G
I'm Evangelical Agnostic now


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I dont know what we're doing here
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You don't know what were doing here

    G
Now Christians dont walk out on me just yet
               C
You know whose name I'm yelling as I'm clutching my chest
           D
The one my Dad told me to, and his told him to 
G
And I probably pray as much or more than you do
G
Believe? S**t, every word I sing
    C
But believing and knowing, those are two different things
            D
And if your trying to change the way a strangers life will have to go
  G
I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know
         C 
Which is nothing you know, nothing for sure, so
D 
Just chill 'til the next episode

    G
Now back to the lecture at hand
              C
Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he can't understand
         D
I say we cant just kill what we dont understand 
      G
But I turn on my TV and see that oh yes we can
   G
We can, and we have since the dawn of man
    C
For countless gods whose only real seeming plan
       D
Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate
        G
And you gotta admit life's pretty great, 
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But - can we deny that its killing us? , I'll be here all week


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Happy New Year everybody
      C                G
Happy birthday Country Joe
  C                    G
I resolve to do like I always do
        D
I ain't hurtin' you



   G
If life is anything its embarrassing
C
A rusty nail through a careless shoe
    D
You cant help but sit around and wonder sometimes
            G
Why there's never anything the nail can do
   G
Or think about how unfair it is 
         C
That the shoe is always going where it's got to too
       D
If you ain't the dumb kid out running around
    G
You kinda gotta do what your born to do, hey


C                   G
Happy New Year everybody
C                                          G
Specifically Happy Birthday to you Country Joe
  C                    G
I resolve to do what I always do
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And I only ever make it a day or two