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A Good Life Is The Best Revenge

Ball Park Music

RockMedium for beginners9 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
D××
A×
G
F#Diagram coming soon
F
E7
BDiagram coming soon
E

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 3rd fret
              
 
Intro (from the nut not the capo) 
 
hide this tab e|-------------------------------|      |-------------8--| 
B|----8------10b----10-8-8-8-8---|      |----8----10--8--| 
G|----8------10b----10-8-8-9-9---|      |----8----10--9--| 
D|-------------------------------|  x3  |-------------10-| 
A|-6-----6/8---------------------|      |-6----6/8----10-| 
E|----------------8--------------|      |-------------8--| 
 
 
 (transpose by 3 for chords without capo) 
 
Intro:   C  D   A4 
 
verse 1 
C    D      A 
Hear me out your royal highness 
C    D      A 
I can kill them all with kindness 
C    D      A 
I won?t cause you any trouble 
C    D      A 
When you wake in the  
C    D      A 
Middle of the night 
 
Chorus (play with riff at the bottom of this tab) 
 
        C  D      A 
A good life is the best revenge x3 
        C  D   A 
You can get 
 
Intro 
 
verse 2 
C    D   A 
I will stroke my fleshy fingers 
C    D   A 
On this cardboard box of matches 
     C    D   A 
But I won?t cause you any trouble 
          C           D      A 
When you wake in the middle of the night 
 
Chorus 
 
Solo  C  D    A     x4 
 
Bridge 
        G             D/F#  
I made plans with my firearms  
          F            C 
and got quotes from a plague of rats 
          G            D/F# 
I wished harm with the holy ghost  
          F            E7 
but I know that I will never get you back 
 
Intro  with this riff 
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(from nut not from capo) 
e|---------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------| 
G|--10p8------------8-10-10p8------| 
D|------10p8----8h10---------h10---| 
A|---------------------------------| 
E|---------------------------------| 
 
Chorus x2 
(last Chorus sounds A bit more C/G  D/F#   A/E) 
 
 
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For Tom and Geordie at Laugh and Learn 
          
 

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Chord set

C · D · A · G · F# · F · E7 · B · E

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.