Loudon Wainwright III – Hollywood Hopeful (Guitar)

D                    C
I am a full fledged, grown-up adult

    C                             D
I'm tryin' make a dent, tryin' to get a result

D                           Am
I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite

C                       D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

         D                          C
They got all kinds of victories and lots of downfalls

         C                     D
They got drugs in the rugs and ghosts in the walls

D                              Am
Starlets in the lobby that can make a man drool

C                           D
Blood on the curtains and a phone by the pool

D                             C
Well, I never did see so many TV stars

      C                     D
And I never did see so many rented cars

  D                     Am
I never did see so many desperate eyes

      C                      D
And I never did hear so many bold faced lies

           D              Am
When I was ten years old, I was alive

        C                       D
And the Benedict Canyon down on Hutton Drive

      D                        Am
Well, now I'm right back in my old backyard

        C                                D
And I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard

    C                                D
I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard

        D                                C
Well, I never thought I'd see the age of twenty-five

              C                           D
And it's been twenty-eight years now that I've been alive

         D                          Am
And in a matter of months I will be thirty years old

        C                            D
And the apprehension that I feel can hardly be told

D                    C
I am a full fledged, grown-up adult

    C                             D
I'm tryin' make a dent, tryin' to get a result

    D                       Am (hold)
I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite

   C                    D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

   C                    D
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat