Drowning (Hootie and the Blowfish)
(intro): |G Fadd9| x8G Fadd9 G Fadd9Trouble with the world is we're too busy to think about it, all rightWhy is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?Tired of hearin' this shit about heritage not hateTime to make the world a better placeWhy must we hate one another?Well no matter what we gotta live togetherJust that you don't look like me, tell me what do you see When we pass on the street what do you wanna see?Am-C-Am-G-Am-C-DPeace coming is all I gotta sayWanna turn and run awayThey're just telling you how they see itRight or wrong they don't care, you wish that they would quitAm-C-Am-G-Am-F-G C F G F Drowning in a sea of tears Hatred trying to hide your fears Living only for yourself Hating everybody else Cause they don't look like you|G Fadd9| x4Nancy singing it's a hard life wherever you goAbout some fat racist living in ChicagoTrying to teach his kids to hate everyoneWell tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?
Am-C-Am-G-Am-C-D
Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you're my brother
You don't walk like a redneck, you don't talk like redneck
Go back to Africa, I just don't understand
(chorus)
(solo): |G Fadd9| x8
(C-F-G-F)(Drowning)
I'm trying to be someone that he could look up to, but(Hatred)
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see?
I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man(Living)
No I'm not like you
Why do you hate me so?
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know(Hating)
Hating everybody else cause they don't look like you................
There are two rhythm guitars here. A clean electric (mixed left) strums chords throughout the song.
Note that Fadd9 is played as 1x3213 (playing the bass string with your thumb).
An acoustic (mixed right) is played with a capo on the fifth fret
- to convert the chords: G becomes D, Fadd9 => Cadd9 (x32033), Am => Em, C => G, F => C, D => A
There are also two lead guitars in this song, which play the solo and
the links between the verses. They play power chords for the Am-C... things.
If you only have one lead guitarist in your band, you can loosely approximate
both guitar parts with a pitch shifter by playing the right channel
guitar (the one on top) with pitch shifter set to a perfect 4th
(5 frets) above- use
your ears and change the bits which end up sounding particularly daft.
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