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Family Of Me

Ben Folds

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

C#mDiagram coming soon
E○○○
A×○○
F#mDiagram coming soon
D××○
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: C#m E (x3) 
 
Verse 
A    C#m     F#m  E 
 How great I am 
A     C#m      F#m 
Gotta tell myself, yeah 
E 
I'm the man 
A     C#m   F#m     E 
Looks grim right now 
A       C#m          F#m         E 
but pretty soon we'll be laughing about it 
 
E             D 
Ooh, and it's alright 
C#m                        A 
Yeah it is, I swear you'll see 
A 
(it's not really) 
E           D 
Yeah it's alright 
         Bm                       A 
Cuz I've always got my family of me 
 
Verse 
A     C#m     F#m 
 It's not a first 
E 
(might be the last) 
A        C#m 
Yeah I'm sure 
        F#m               E 
I must have been through worse, but 
 
E         D 
Ooh, it's alright 
C#m                 A 
Got a paddle and a creek 
E          D 
Yeah, it's alright 
            Bm                 C#m     E 
Because I've always got my family   of me 
 
Outro 
C#m E (x2)

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Chord set

C#m · E · A · F#m · D · Bm

Practice tip

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