Verse
G-B
One fine day near the end of the tax year
B
Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear
C# G#m B C# G-B
Who would be at his retirement party
Verse 2:
G-B
And though he still had years to go before he
B
Slipped over the edge of the workforce
C# G#m B C# G-B
The question remained and in his wake there came an army
Chorus:
D#m B F# C#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
D#m B F# C#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
D#m B F# C#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
D#m B (Back to main riff)G-B
That's when his roof caved in
Verse 3:
G-B
And so he made a list of all the people he worked with
B
And cut it down to the ones he got on with
C# G#m B C# G-B
Paired each one off with the decade of his career
Verse 4:
G-B
And then he thought of all his friends from back home
B
The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known
C# G#m B C# G-B
And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here
Chorus:
D#m B F# C#
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
D#m B F# C#
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
D#m B F# C#
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
D#m B F#
That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days
Bsus4
So he could buy icers and microwaves
D#m C# B
And he only looks forward to his holidays
That's when his roof caved in.
Bridge:
C# D#m G#m B B/A#
And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and
G#m C#
fat little kids,
C# D#m G#m B B/A#
And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records
G#m C#
of the things that you did,
C# D#m G#m B B/A#
But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen
G#m C#
to be sleeping on?
C# D#m Csus4(Let Ring)
As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the
B(Let Ring) G-C
drop-outs, that he could never live that way.
Bsus4 Bsus D#m
But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.
Instrumental Break. D#m B F# C# D#m B F# F# Bsus4 Bsus4 F# D#m B B
final Verse:
C-F#
Mr Richards decided on the very next morning
B
To make his life and work the same thing
C# G#m B C# F#
Cleared he desk, he hit the road and he never retired.
- 1. Chord Gitar Frank Turner - Mr Richards Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar C#)
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- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan