{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1770572,"song":"Nearest Thing To Hip","artist":"The Waterboys","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11386476-nearest-thing-to-hip-chords-by-the-waterboys/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1770572?type=chord","rating":4.2928,"votes":3,"content":"Intro [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere used to be a café a few blocks away,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOpen seven days, called “The Brilliant Mistake”[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere a crow-haired girl with scarlet lips [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd slender hips served up coffee and cake[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                             \r\nOn a crackling stereo the ghosts of Sun Ra,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Dsus[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Dsus[/ch]\r\nCharlie Parker, Miles and Coltrane blew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI’d kick back in my chair, that sweet honey’d jazz in the air[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                      \r\nThe sun shining through[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nEverywhere that I go I see streets that are low[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOn distinction and high on the banal and the bland[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nHow did we get to this? We plumbed the abyss[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBy the twisted grace of the law of supply and demand[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell, there’s no use crying and no use sighing over[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Dsus[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Dsus[/ch]\r\nStone, wood, wire, glass and cement[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                  \r\nBut there’s a little record store with a wooden floor[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat ain’t there no more that I used to frequent[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow I need to get out of this.. hullabaloo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]       \r\nAnd I remember an old-fashioned bar that I once knew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bb[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith an old-fashioned barman wearing old-fashioned clothes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch] \r\nBut when I get there.. it’s been bulldozed[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I follow my nose down Comatose Lane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThrough the stripped back, ripped up wastes of Woebegone Square[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nTill I find myself on Deadbeat Street,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy feet beginning to ache, despair in the air[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe only thing bright in this blighted town[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Dsus[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Dsus[/ch]\r\nAre the billboard adverts everywhere displayed like mocking shades[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the musty, dusty second-hand bookstore[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIs now a scum-encrusted amusement arcade[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was the nearest thing to hip[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIn this shithole… and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n         .. and it’s gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"Intro G  C  D       G   C  D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG  C  D       G   C  D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG    C  D   G","chords":["G","C","D","Am","Em","Dsus","Bb"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}