Randy Newman – My Life Is Good (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Randy Newman From: “Trouble in Paradise” (1983) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Capo: 3rd fret Play: D Key: F For chords in original key transpose +3 (and “use flats”) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Gadd9     3-x-0-2-0-3
G/D       x-x-0-4-3-3
D5        x-x-0-2-3-x
Dsus2     x-x-0-2-3-0

DmMaj7    x-x-0-2-2-1
Dm7       x-x-0-2-1-1
Dm6       x-x-0-2-0-1
Eb/Db     x-x-1-1-2-1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | D | % | F#m | % | Gadd9 | % | Asus4 | Asus4 A | [Verse 1]
D
 A couple weeks ago

D
 My wife and I

D
 Took a little trip down to

D
 Mexico

D
 Met this young girl there

D
 We brought her back with us

D
 Now she lives with us

D
 In Our Home
[Bridge]
Bm
 She cleans the hallway

D
 She cleans the stair

A
 She cleans the livingroom

C
 She wipes the baby's ass

Bm
 She drives the kids to school

D
 She does the laundry too

A
 She wrote this song for me

C
 Listen ... Yeah
[Verse 2]
D
 The other afternoon

D
 My wife and I

D
 Took a little ride into

D
 Beverly Hills

D
 Went to the private school

D
 Our oldest child attends

D
 Many famous people send their children there

D7
 His teacher says to us

D
 "We have a problem here

D
 This child just will not do

D
 A thing I tell him to

D7
 He's such a big old thing

D
 He hurts the other children

D
 All the games they play,

D
 He plays so rough."
[Bridge]
Bm
 Hold it teacher

D
 Wait a minute

A                 C
 Maybe my ears are clogged or somethin'

Bm                  D
 Maybe I'm not understanding the English language

A                        C
 Dear, you don't seem to realize
[Chorus]
D          F#m
My life is good

Gadd9      D
My life is good

D          F#m
My life is good, you old bat

Gadd9       | Asus4 | A |
My Life, my Life
[Verse 3]
D
 Just this evening

D
 Some young associates of ours

D
 Are flying in to see us from

D
 New York City

D
 They're gonn stay with us

D
 Oh, a couple of weeks or so

D
 I'm gonn take 'em to

D
 Restaurants and everything
[Bridge]
Bm
 Gonna get'em some

D
Real good cocaine

A
 They don't get much

      C
Where they come from

Bm
 And this one's guy wife

          D
Is such a pretty little brown thing

A                         C
 I'm liable to give her a poke or two, whaddaya think of that?
[Interlude]
Dm
 Teacher, let me tell you a little story

G/D
 Just this morning my wife and I

            Dm
Went to this hotel in the hills

             G/D
That's right, the Bel-Air Hotel

                 Dm
Where a very good friend of ours, happens to be staying

        G/D
And the name of this young man

                      | D5 Dsus2 | DmMaj7 Dm7 |
Is Mr Bruce Springsteen, that's right, yeah

| Dm6 Dsus2 | Dm6 Bb/D |
We talked about this kind of woodblock or something

  | D5 Dsus2 | DmMaj7 Dm7 |
This new guitar we like

                     | Dm6 Dsus2 | Dm6 Bb/D |
And you know what he said to me? I'll tell you what he said to me

      | D5 Dsus2 | DmMaj7 Dm7 |
He said, "Rand, I'm tired

| Dm6 Dsus2 | Dm6 Bb/D |
How would you like to be the Boss for a while?"

Db        G
 Well ... yeah

B                  Eb/Db
 Blow, Big Man ... blow
[Chorus]
   D       F#m
My life is good

Gadd9      D
My life is good, you old bat

D          F#m
My life is good

Gadd9       D
My Life, my Life

   | D | % | F#m | % | Gadd9 | % | D | % |
Is good
[Outro]
| D | % | F#m | % | Gadd9 | % | D | % |
(repeat and fade)