Van Dyke Parks — Worthless Chords
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From the movie, Brave Little Toaster
Intro
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Em
I can't take this kinda pressure
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I must confess one more dusty road
Em — Dsus2
Would be just a road too long
G — — Em
Worthless...
Em
I just can't, I just can't
I just can't seem to get started!
G — F#m —
Don't have the heart to live in the fast lane
Em — Dsus2
All that has passed and gone
G — — A
Worthless!
C — — B
There ain't nothing you can do about it
G — — A
Worthless!
Pardon me while I panic!
C — — B — B — — A — A — — G
Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!
Em
I come from KC Missouri
G — F#m —
And I got my kicks down on Route 66
Em — Dsus2
Every truck stop from Butte to MO
Em
Motown to Old Alabama
G — F#m — Em — Dsus2
From Texarkana and east of Savanna from Tampa to Old Kokomo
A — — Bm
Worthless...
Em
I once ran the Indy 500
G — F#m —
I must confess I'm impressed how I did
Em — Dsus2
And I wonder how close that I came
Em
Now I get a sinking sensation
G — F#m — Em —
I was the top of the line, out of site out of mind
Dsus2
So much for fortune and fame
G — — A
Worthless!
C — — B
G — — A
Worthless!
C — — B — B — — A — A — — Gm
Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!
Gm
Once took a Texan to a wedding
Once took a Texan to a wedding
A# — Am —
He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting
Gm — F
His thoughts turn to home and we turned
Gm
I took a man to a graveyard
A# — Am —
I beg your pardon, it's quite hard enough
Gm — F
Just living with the stuff I have learned
Am — — A#
Worthless!
A# — — G#m
G#m — — A
Worthless!
A — — G — G — — F — F — — Em
Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!
Em
Once drove a surfer to sunset
G — F#m —
There were bikinis and buns filled with weenies
Em — Dsus2
Believe me, just couldn't forget
Em —
Pico, lets go up to Zuma
Gm —
Pico, lets go up to Zuma
A# — Am — Gm — F
From Zuma to Yuma the rumor was I had a hand in the lay of the land
G
Get up and go hit the highway
G — — A
C — — B
G — — A
C — — B — B — — A — A — — G
Em —
Em
I worked on a reservation
Em —
G — F#m — Em — Dsus2
Who would believe they would love me and leave on a bus back to old Santa Fe?
Em
Once in an Indian nation
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I took the kids on the skids with a Hopi
Em — Dsus2
Who was happy to lie there and say
Em — — Dm — — Am
"You're worthless"
Em
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Em(hold)