Jesse Welles – Life Is Good (Guitar)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E) • Capo 1
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As recorded by Jesse Welles (2024 release) This song has a non-standard frequency tuning. You may be able to jam better if your guitar is tuned to 429Hz. So tune up 1/2 step. Alternatively you may put a capo at 1st fret. [Intro] D [Verse 1]
D
The toad asked the centipede

        G           D
How the hell do you walk?

D
Centipede asked the toad

        G            D
How the hell can you talk?

D
I can't float

D
I can't zen

G             D
It don't make no sense

D
I read the Dr. Bronner's bottle

D
Earth's a spaceship and rinse
[Chorus]
D
Some cups runneth over

    G           D
The poor in the street

D
Some cups are bitter

A         D
Some cups are sweet

D
You will drive

D
Yourself mad

        G         D
Wondrin wherefore and why

G
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die

        Bm
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die
[Verse 1]
D
I was an ape in the library

       G       D
Gettin Rosetta stoned

D
They said they cracked the ancient riddle

         G           D
Probably made up the code

D
There's a chemtrail ribbon

      G           D
Tying bows in the sky

D
Life's a present

D
You won't get it

         G            D
Till the day that you die
[Chorus]
D
Some cups runneth over

    G           D
The poor in the street

D
Some cups are bitter

A         D
Some cups are sweet

D
You will drive

D
Yourself mad

        G         D
Wondrin wherefore and why

G
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die

        Bm
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die
[Bridge]
Bm
 When the astrovan

G
 Came to be with man

D
 I was travelin the road

Bm
He said to jump in back

G
I said I'll try it

             D
But they can baptize us heathens

         G          D
Till the water gets cold

     D
Everything's been tried

       G          D
Nothin works I am told
[Chorus]
D
Some cups runneth over

    G           D
The poor in the street

D
Some cups are bitter

A         D
Some cups are sweet

D
You will drive

D
Yourself mad

        G         D
Wondrin wherefore and why

G
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die

        Bm
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die
[Verse 3]
D
There are saints in the truckstops

       G        D
By the Arkansas river

     D
That runs down the planet

     G             D
Underneath the big dipper

D
All the grass in the field

G              D
Sprouts up and withers

D
Life is short

D
So I guess

          G
I'm gonna be

     D
A forgiver
[Chorus]
D
Some cups runneth over

    G           D
The poor in the street

D
Some cups are bitter

A         D
Some cups are sweet

D
You will drive

D
Yourself mad

        G         D
Wondrin wherefore and why

G
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die

        Bm
Life is good

        A
Life is great

         G              D
Life's a bitch then you die
[Outro] D