Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What (Guitar)

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[Intro] Gm | % | % | % x2 [Verse 1]
             Gm7
I'm going to make a chicken gumbo
Toss some sausage in the pot I'm going to flavor it with okra Cheyenne pepper to make it hot [Hook]
         Gm7
You know life is what we make of it
So beautiful or so what [Verse 2]
             Gm7
I'm going to tell my kids a bedtime story
A play without a plot Will it have a happy ending? Maybe yeah, maybe not [Chorus]
            Gm7
I tell them life is what you make of it
So beautiful or so what
Gm     F            Emb5 | %
~~ So___ beautiful

Gm     Dm
~~ So___ beautiful

Gm
~~  So what
Gm | % | % | % [Verse 3]
           Gm7
I'm just a rain-drop in a bucket
A coin in a slot I am an empty house on Weed Street Across the road from a vacant lot [Hook]
         Gm7
You know life is what you make of it
So beautiful or so what [Bridge 1]
         Gm7
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
How we seek out bad advice
       Gm7
How we jigger it and figure it
Mistaking value for the price And play a game with time and love Like a pair of rolling dice [Hook]
Gm     F           Emb5 | %
~~  So beautiful

        Gm             F
~~  so____ beautiful

   Gm
So what
[Verse 4]
Gm
Four men on the balcony
Overlooking the parking lot Pointing at a figure in the distance
Fm                           Gm
~~ Doctor King has just been shot

        G7
And the sirens long melody
Singing savior pass me not [Bridge 2]
         Gm7
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
How we seek out bad advice
       Gm7
How we jigger it and figure it
Mistaking value for the price And play a game with time and love Like a pair of rolling dice [Hook]
Gm     F           Emb5 | %
~~  So beautiful

        Gm             F
~~  so____ beautiful

   Gm
So what