Verse
G-C#
One fine day near the end of the tax year
C#
Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear
D# A#m C# D# G-C#
Who would be at his retirement party
Verse 2:
G-C#
And though he still had years to go before he
C#
Slipped over the edge of the workforce
D# A#m C# D# G-C#
The question remained and in his wake there came an army
Chorus:
Fm C# G# D#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
Fm C# G# D#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
Fm C# G# D#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
Fm C# (Back to main riff)G-C#
That's when his roof caved in
Verse 3:
G-C#
And so he made a list of all the people he worked with
C#
And cut it down to the ones he got on with
D# A#m C# D# G-C#
Paired each one off with the decade of his career
Verse 4:
G-C#
And then he thought of all his friends from back home
C#
The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known
D# A#m C# D# G-C#
And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here
Chorus:
Fm C# G# D#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
Fm C# G# D#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
Fm C# G# D#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
Fm C# G#
That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days
C#sus4
So he could buy icers and microwaves
Fm D# C#
And he only looks forward to his holidays
That's when his roof caved in.
Bridge:
D# Fm A#m C# C#/C
And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and
A#m D#
fat little kids,
D# Fm A#m C# C#/C
And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records
A#m D#
of the things that you did,
D# Fm A#m C# C#/C
But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen
A#m D#
to be sleeping on?
D# Fm Csus4(Let Ring)
As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the
C#(Let Ring) G-C
drop-outs, that he could never live that way.
C#sus4 C#sus Fm
But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.
Instrumental Break. Fm C# G# D# Fm C# G# G# C#sus4 C#sus4 G# Fm C# C#
final Verse:
C-G#
Mr Richards decided on the very next morning
C#
To make his life and work the same thing
D# A#m C# D# G#
Cleared he desk, he hit the road and he never retired.
- 1. Chord Gitar Frank Turner - Mr Richards Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
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