{"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":1879858,"song":"Some People Have It Worse Than I","artist":"Tim Minchin","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1879858-some-people-have-it-worse-than-i-chords-by-tim-minchin/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1879858?type=chord","rating":4.87313,"votes":9,"content":"Tim Minchin - Some People have it worse than me\r\nDVD: So Live!\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chords]\r\n[ch]Eadd#9[/ch]    022004\r\n[ch]Aadd#9[/ch]    x02520\r\n[ch]A13[/ch]       x02022\r\n\r\n\r\n[Picking Pattern Outlines for Verse]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]Eadd#9[/ch]        [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]         [ch]F#m[/ch] & [ch]B[/ch]\r\nE |----4---4--| |-----------| |----2---2---2---2--|\r\nB |----0---0--| |----2---2--| |----2---2---4---4--|\r\nG |----0---0--| |----5---5--| |----2---2---4---4--|\r\nD |-----------| |----2---2--| |-------------------|\r\nA |------2----| |--0--------| |------4---2--------|\r\nE |--0--------| |------0----| |--2-----------2----|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Eadd#9[/ch]\r\nWell I wake up in the morning at 11: 47[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nAnd I can't believe I have to face the horror of another fucking day[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Eadd#9[/ch]\r\nAnd the magnificent magnitude of my morning erection[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nMerely mocks me like the sun in it's optimistic greeting of the day[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]                    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nManaging to manifest a modicum of motivation[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI meander to the kitchen make a mission out of mixing Nescafe[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nBut the milk is going off and coffee by itself is bitter[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                             [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd there's ants all through the sugar and the supermarket's miles a-fucking-way[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]E |--------------------|\r\nB |--------------------|\r\nG |--2--3--4-----------|\r\nD |----------2-3-4-----|\r\nA |--------------------|\r\nE |----------------0-1-|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nMy life is pretty sad[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I know that I should be glad[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a starving Ethiope[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#[/ch]                   [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nOr a policeman in Baghdad[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]B6[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nPoliceman in Baghdad[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]B6[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBagdad[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Eadd#9[/ch]\r\nAt 11: 53 I instigate the day's ablutions[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nIn the hope my constitution can be altered by some action on the bowl[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Eadd#9[/ch]\r\nBut the total non-existence of colonic animation[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                  [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nSeems to me the perfect metaphor for the utter constipation of my soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F#m[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nBy 11: 59 I have decided that my life would be immediately improved[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]                         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nBy a carefully written list of short-term goals[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nBut by 12.05 my list consists of one-dot put some pants on[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTwo-dot go to the shop, buy some prunes and Panadol[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]E |--------------------|\r\nB |--------------------|\r\nG |--2--3--4-----------|\r\nD |----------2-3-4-----|\r\nA |--------------------|\r\nE |----------------0-1-|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nMy life is pretty shit[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I know I shouldn't whinge about it[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a Palestinian[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F#[/ch]                     [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nDriving buses on the Gaza strip[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nYeah how bad can it be?[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome people have it worse than me[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI could be an Ipswich prostitute[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOr Gary Glitter's family[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]           [ch]E7[/ch]\r\n  I have no right to cry[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome people have it worse than I[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a thalidomide kid[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#[/ch]                  [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nWith something in my eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]B6[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSomething in my eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]B6[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nMy eye[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAt 12: 30 I realise I'm feeling so dejected[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                               [ch]A13[/ch]\r\nThat I've totally neglected the beginning of the Jerry Springer show[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nSo I settle on the sofa try to focus an iota of my motor-neurons[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]A13[/ch]\r\nOn the brilliant insights for which Jerry is known[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]                                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd although on any other day a show entitled \"Midgets, Midgets, Midgets\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]B[/ch]                         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWould excite me like a virgin at her year eleven ball[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Aadd#9[/ch]\r\nToday those little jelly-wrestling fellas fail to free me of my misery[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nInstead they simply serve to make me feel three foot tall[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]E |--------------------|\r\nB |--------------------|\r\nG |--2--3--4-----------|\r\nD |----------2-3-4-----|\r\nA |--------------------|\r\nE |----------------0-1-|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBut how bad can it be?[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome people have it worse than me[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a junior life saver[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#[/ch]                  [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nOn a Banda Aceh beach[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nOr a woman in afghanistan[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nOr a Jew in the Ku Klux Klan[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOr the architect of the World Trade Centre[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nOr a bobcat driver in Bam Iran[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]B[/ch]                         [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nI could have my identity mistaken[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs a bomber in an underground station[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a peace-loving speech-writer[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F#7[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn George W's administration[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYeah, I know that I don't have the right[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nTo be unhappy with my life[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI could be Hitlers mother[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOr Shane Warne's wife[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nYeah, I know that I shouldn't be bitchin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI could be in a worse position[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#7[/ch]\r\nI could be a 3-nippled naturopath[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F#m7[/ch]\r\nIn the days of the Spanish[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn the Spanish inquisition[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nI know I have no right, no right to cry[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nSome people have it much, much worse than I[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI could have a serious nut allergy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd be shipwrecked on an island with a crate of Snickers bars,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G#7[/ch]                  [ch]F#[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]E/G#[/ch]  [ch]E/A[/ch]  [ch]E/A#[/ch]\r\nA jar of Nutella and a fresh baked pecan pie[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSome people have it worse than I![/tab]","plain_text":"Tim Minchin - Some People have it worse than me\nDVD: So Live!\n\n\n[Chords]\nEadd#9    022004\nAadd#9    x02520\nA13       x02022\n\n\n[Picking Pattern Outlines for 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