Green Day - King For A Day

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:47:02 -0500
From: Oystreck
Subject: CRD: g/green_day/king_for_a_day.crd

Band: Green Day
Song: King for a Day
Album: Track 16 of "Nimrod", 1997, Reprise Records

Chords:

A: 5-7-7-x-x-x
B: 7-9-9-x-x-x
C#: x-4-6-6-x-x
D: x-5-7-7-x-x
E^: x-7-9-9-x-x (^ is not an accent, but a high E)
Ev: 0-2-2-x-x-x (not the letter v, but a low E)
G#: 4-6-6-x-x-x




Intro on bass and horns


Verse: (no guitar) Started at the age of four
My mother went to the grocery store
Went sneaking through her bedroom door
To find something in a size four...


Chorus: A B
Sugar and spice, and everything nice

A B
wasn't meant for only girls

A B
GI Joe in pantyhose is

A B
making room for the one and only

E^ C# D C# G#
King for a day! princess by dawn

E^ C# D C# G#
King for a day! in a leather thong

E^ C# D C# G#
King for a day! princess by dawn

A B Ev
Just wait till all the guys get a load of me


Verse: (no guitar) My daddy threw me in therapy
He thinks I'm not a real man
Who put the drag in the drag queen
Don't knock it until you tried it


Chorus


Horn and bass interlude


Chorus: Sugar and spice, and everything nice
(same chords Wasn't meant for only girls
as before) GI Joe in pantyhose is
making room for the one and only _
King for a day! princess by dawn
King for a day! in a leather thong > x3
King for a day! princess by dawn _/
Just wait till all the guys
Just wait till all the guys
Just wait till all the guys get a load of me.


Outro on bass, horns, drums



Tabbed by Adam Oystreck (aoystreck@geocities.com) 04/16/98
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9213/tabs.html

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