Lyle Lovett – Pants Is Overrated (Guitar)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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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.