Re: Wrote a song - SHEESH!

Hud wrote:
Man, I've been on this guitar for 7 hours straight playing open chord progressions and working out lyrics...trying to get this song in my head down. Finally I got the progressions worked out and the words came. But I just kept working and re-working everything over and over. I've played and sang it through several times. Deb, my wife, got in on the act and tried her hand at singing while I played. We also sang it together several times. We had a good time and laughed a lot. But now I've played so long that my fretting hand is trashed. It's just done. I'm going to record the song within a few days. Here's it is: (Recommendations appreciated)

Listen to "She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals to make sure you haven't rewritten that tune. (That just comes from me playing your progression and guessing the melody and feel.)




HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?

Opening

C F Am G C F Am G



Verse 1

C F Am G

I tried so hard to look the other way

C F Am G

I tried so hard to be a team player

D A

Then you said I was out of control.

C G

That's what you said

D A

Then you said I was out of control

C G

That's what you said



Verse 2

C F

How do you like me now? How do you like me now

Am G

I'll make your words come true.

C F

I played your game. Now you'll play mine.

Am G

We'll see whose really out of control



C

Whose looking the other way now?



Chorus

Am F

What's right is right. What's wrong is wrong.

C G

That's the simple game I play.

Am F

What's right is right. What's wrong is wrong.

C G

That's the simple game I play.

F C

How do you like me now?



Verse 3

C F Am G

It was good for so long. Then it all went to hell.

C F Am G

Did what you wanted. Had it your way. Now it's my turn to walk away.

D A

I'm tired of your silly games.

C G

It's time to walk away.

D A

I'm tired of your silly games

C G

It's time to call it a day.



Verse 4

C F Am G

I tried so hard to look the other way

C F Am G

I tried so hard to be a team player

D A

Then you said I was out of control.

C G

That's what you said

D A

Then you said I was out of control

C G

That's what you said.



Chorus

Am F

What's right is right. What's wrong is wrong.

C G

That's the simple game I play.

Am F

What's right is right. What's wrong is wrong.

C G

That's the simple game I play.



Ending

F C

How do you like me now?

How do you like me now?

How do you like me now?

C F Am G

C F Am G

C




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