Tuning: Standard
Capo 5
This is the intro and verse riff:
e|1h0----1h0----1h0----0h1-3-0--|
B|---1-3----1-3----1-3--------3-|
G|------0------0------0---------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|
CG
Everyone is working hard.
CG
Mothers got a shit job.
CF
Daddy got a blow job.
CG
Divorce ain't free.
CG
Lawyer gets a phone call.
CG
He's back on the payroll.
CFCG
It's time to figure out who gets the house and the keys.
CG
Mom and Dad get uptight.
CG
The kids see the whole fights.
CFCG
It's all very childlike, their vulgar tones.
CGCG
Sister starts crying, brother starts whining,
CFCG
But please don't forget we're a family.
FCGC
Now it's time for long distance calls
FCGC
To say I love you I don't know you at all.
FCGC
I don't sympathize with dead beat dads.
FCGC
He sits alone we were all he had.
CG
It's 20 years later.
CG
Brothers got a girlfriend.
CF
His wife is on the back end.
CG
Divorce ain't free.
CG
Sisters got a husband.
CG
But he don't give her lovin'.
CFCG
It's funny its a turnaround how life isn't free.
CGCG
Got to pay the mortgage and get the kids thru college.
CFCG
And maybe if we're lucky we can make ends meet.
CGCG
Sister starts crying, brother starts whining.
CFCG
But please don't forget we're a family.
FCGC
Now it's time for long distance calls
FCGC
To say I love you I don't know you at all.
FCGC
I don't sympathize with dead beat dads.
FCGC
He sits alone we were all he had.