{"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":2723346,"song":"Wasteland","artist":"Dan Bern","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11529442-wasteland-chords-by-dan-bern/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2723346?type=chord","rating":4.56823,"votes":5,"content":"For the intro and at the end of the chorus, he's hammering on and pulling off on the B string:\r\n[ch]G[/ch]*  320003 / 320013 ([ch]G[/ch] / [ch]Gadd11[/ch])\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G/F#[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  I saw the best of my generation playing pinball[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\n  Maked-up and caked-up and looking like some kind of china doll[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\n  With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold as they stood up in front   of a rock and roll band[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\n  And always moving upward and ever upward to this gentle, golden promised land[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith the smartest of them all moonlighting as a word processor[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the strongest of them all checking IDs outside saloons[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the prettiest of all taking off her clothes in front of men[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhose eyes look like they were in some little hick town near Omaha[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWatching the police chief run his car off the side of a bridge[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw a men with dreams like the ones I'd had beg quarters outside the 7-11[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTill it got so they didn't affect me anymore than the mailboxes I'd pass[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\n'Cept that sometimes I'd put something in the mailbox[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  I'd had the wind at my back, now I felt it cold in my face[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd for an awful long time now you were the only one who ever called me late at night[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I never really noticed till after you stopped calling[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C/B[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the emptiness and silence got so heavy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the promised land[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in Disneyland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the plastic land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]*       [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G/F#[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  And I saw dead Marilyn Monroe strung up on every street corner in Hollywood[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike some two bit whore offering a discount rate[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw dead James Dean's ghost wandering the sidewalk looking troubled[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I wondered how his mama felt[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI saw signs that said \"Headshots done for cheap\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSigns that said \"Extras wanted, top dollars paid\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd signs for haircuts and signs for manicures[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd signs for tanning salons and signs for wardrobe specialists[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSigns for cosmetic surgery and signs for assertiveness training[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I stopped to read them all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd every single block looked like every single block[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLooked like every single block looked like every single block[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut you kept driving 'cause everyone else kept driving[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd 'cause gridlock is evil and not knowing your way is evil[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n  And those that had money looked good but weren't too happy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  And those who didn't have money didn't look so good and weren't too happy either[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd in a city of three million two hundred and sixty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nEvery one was lonely[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the promised land[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in Disneyland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the plastic land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]*       [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G/F#[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  And I watched as everyone I knew spent their lives[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTrying to be watched on stage or watched on film or listened to on a record[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd they thought, \"Well, maybe that way I could get a little love out of this life\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I watched as the best of my generation abandoned their dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd settled for making a little money[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI watched TV and read the papers, listened to the radio and made all the fancy scenes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd said all the right words and wore all the right clothes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd knew the names of the hip people but I still felt out of touch[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo I stopped watching TV and reading the papers and listening to the radio[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd making the fancy scenes and saying the right words[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd wearing the right clothes and knowing the names of the hip people[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I felt more out of touch than ever, oh, but I didn't care anymore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n  And I felt you slipping away[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  And I felt myself slipping from you[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I wanted more than anything else for it to rain for one whole day like it used to[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut all there ever was was sun, relentless sun, hot, beating sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd everyone wore their sunglasses and walked around like flies[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nUnder magnifying glass with their eyes removed[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the promised land[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in Disneyland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the plastic land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]*       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBroken up in the wasteland[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]*  [ch]G[/ch]  x3","plain_text":"For the intro and at the end of the chorus, he's hammering on and pulling off on the B string:\nG*  320003 / 320013 (G / Gadd11)\n\n[Intro]\nG*  G  G*  G  G*  G  G/F#\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nG*  G  x3","chords":["B","G","Gadd11","G/F#","D","C","Em","Bm","C/B"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"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]}}}