Lyle Lovett – Pants Is Overrated (Guitar)
Capo 3
• Video Lesson
Key
-
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
As performed live on Austin City Limits (November 5, 2022)
With so much going on in this song structurally, I chose to omit BGV lyrics.
[Intro]
(6/4) 81 BPM
| Em F#m A G D - | Em F#m A G D - | Em F#m A G D - |
[Verse]
(4/4) 81 BPM
|Em | Oh, the nighttime air was fairly breezin' |Em |Em | ---- Well, it was cold, but not quite freezin' |Em |Em | ---- So I looked around to find my trousers |Em |Em | ---- And this voice inside my head grew louder
[Chorus]
(6/4) 76 BPM
|Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(6/4) 81 BPM
|Em F#m A G D |Em F#m A G D | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
[Verse]
(4/4) 81 BPM
|Em | I'da never made it out that window |Em |Em | ---- If I'da even put just one leg in though |Em |Em ---- Well, as it was the circumstance |Em | I gladly lost my favorite pants
[Chorus]
(6/4) 76 BPM
|Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(6/4) 81 BPM
|Em F#m A G D |Em F#m A G D | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
[Break]
(4/4) 81 BPM
| Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | (6/4) 81 BPM
| Em F#m A G D |
[Verse]
(4/4) 81 BPM
|Em | My people from across the pond |Em |Em | ---- They hail from Scotland and beyond |Em |Em | ---- Where sheep make wool for socks and shirts and |Em | Grown men run around in skirts
[Chorus]
(6/4) 76 BPM
|Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(6/4) 81 BPM
|Em F#m A G D |Em F#m A G D | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
[Interlude]
(4/4) 120 BPM
|E |A E | See the little sheepies big and fat |E |A B | Standing on the hillside, standing in the meadow |E |A E See the little sheepies big and fat |E |B E | They're makin' me a sweater, they're makin' me a hat
[Verse]
(4/4) 81 BPM
|Em | Lord Jesus knew just what to wear |Em |Em | ---- Oh, to live a life in desert air |Em |Em | ---- He walked the earth in poor man's shoes, and |Em Sang this ninth Beatitude
[Chorus]
(6/4) 76 BPM
|Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(6/4) 81 BPM
|Em F#m A G D |Em F#m A G D | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
[Verse]
(4/4) 81 BPM
|Em | Now as I sit here in my jeans |Em |Em | ---- Well, I think about what this all means |Em |Em | ---- And children come into this world |Em |Em | ---- Without a stitch on, boy or girl
[Chorus]
(6/4) 76 BPM
|Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(2/4) |G D |
Yes, yes
(6/4) |Em |
Pants is overrated, pants is overrated, pants is overrated
(6/4) 81 BPM
|Em F#m A G D |Em F#m A G D | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
[Outro]
|N.C. |
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Charted 07.07.25 by Dexex
(With a little help from my friends: HM & EC.