Elliott Smith – Where I Get It From (Guitar)

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[Riff 1]
e|------------1-----|
B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|------0-----------|
A|-2/3--------2-----|
E|---------2--3-----|

       |   My daddy was shy     |
       |   My uncle worked in   |
       |   My mama was ten feet |
       |Great Grandad went mad  |
       |      Dad's little hands|
               ^^^^
               This is how to time the first
               lines with the riff.
[Riff 2]
e|----------------|
B|-------------2--|
G|-------------2--|
D|-2-----------2--|
A|-2--------------|
E|-0--0--2--3-----|
[Verse] (Riff 1)x2
   G                 C           G
My daddy was shy, he lived in Cheyenne

G                        D
He turned as red as I've ever seen a man

        G                          C
And his skin was thick, and he was hard as a brick

    D                        Em
And just couldn't talk to no one

         A             C        G
And that must be where I get it from

   G                     C     G
My uncle worked in a plutonium mine

    G                     D
His job was to set up the dynamite

       G                  C
And he got too close to a charge underground

    D                        Em
And all of his feelings went numb

         A             C        G
And that must be where I get it from
[Chorus]
  D     C         G
Ki-yay, yippee yi-yo

Em (Riff 2) A  C
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

  D     C         G  Em A A
Ki-yay, yippee yi-yo
[Verse] (Riff 1)
   G        C        G
My mama was ten feet tall

G                    D
She wasn't afraid of nothing at all

        G                      C
And she said her prayers to be proper and all

    D                      Em
She swore on a grave and a gun

         A             C        G
And that must be where I get it from

      G                        C       G
Great-grandad went mad, he was totally tweaked

G                           D
He wore the same suit every day of the week

      G                     C
And I asked how it feels to be such a freak

    D                      Em
And he said, "You tell me, son"

         A             C        G
And that must be where I get it from
[Chorus]
  D     C         G
Ki-yay, yippee yi-yo

Em (Riff 2) A  C
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

  D     C         G  Em A A
Ki-yay, yippee yi-yo
[Verse] (Riff 1)
G                  C          G
Dad's little hands sat in his lap

G                              D
Like a couple of crabs who got caught in a trap

       G                     C
And he shook my hand from so far away that

   D                         Em
He looked like a spot on the sun

         A             C        G
And I guess that's where I get it from

         A             C        Em
And I guess that's where I get it from

         A             C        G
And I guess that's where I get it from