------------------------------------------------------------------------- PREACHING FROM A CHAIR - Thunder ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Kengus Standard tuning INTRO Am D Am G x2 VERSE1 Am Am7/G I'm sorry I don't hate the world F (G) I'm afraid that I'm not disturbed Am Am7/G D/F# Am/F# I'm sorry that I don't do drugs, I hope you understand Am Am7/G I can't talk about my life in hell F (G) Or a suicide attempt that didn't go well Am Am7/G D/F# Am/F# No life of crime, no misery, what you see is what you get PRE-CHORUS C D And I don't believe in dwelling on the darker side Dm G Am Cos there's enough bad news on the television every night C D So I don't need some little punk who's the latest star Dm G Telling me over and over again Dm E7 Life's such a drag when you're in a band CHORUS Am G F C What is it coming to when everyone's talking through their hat Gsus4 G E7/Ab And we've heard it all before Am G D/F# D7/F# What happened to honesty? The way that it looks to me Dm G Is everybody's in it trying to get somewhere Dm E7 And trying to justify it, preaching from a chair INTRO (half) VERSE2 (same chords as above) Please forgive me if the clothes ain't right I wouldn't want you hanging with an uncool guy No flannel shirt and no tattoos, maybe I should grow a beard? Don't you tell me what I oughta think Which cigarettes to smoke, and what I oughta drink Don't judge me by the way I look cos the clothes don't make the man PRE-CHORUS (same chords as above) I'm not about to be a slave to a book of rules Don't wanna spend my life trying to be somebody else And I'd be wrong to believe in every word that I ever read You can't fool all the people all of the time And one man's opinion's another man's lie CHORUS The makers of taste will be patronising you and me forever And it's always been the same You'll enter the twilight zone if you don't keep your mind your own I shouldn't let it get to me but I don't care I can't stomach bullshit, when it's preaching from a chair (SOLO) e|-------------------------------------------------| B|-------------------------------------------------|this is the basics G|-------------------------------------------------|of the solo D|-------------------------------------------------|progression A|-----0h3-0-----0h3---------0h3-0-----0h3-0-------| play x4 E|-0h3-------0h3-----3~--0h3-------0h3-------3h5---| F G F G Am G/B Am VERSE3 (same chords as above) I'm sorry that I like the sun I'm sorry to say I don't wanna own a gun Cos if my number's up well that's alright, sometime we all got to go So many versions of the world outside Reality is getting hard to find So many people with an axe to grind It's hard to know who to believe PRE-CHORUS C D Don't lecture me, until you know what the truth is Dm G Am Well take a good look inside before you criticise everyone else C D Your jealousy ain't enough of a reason, babe Dm G To justify telling me where I went wrong Dm G So don't try to do it Dm G Cos all you ever do is sing the same old song Dm E7 And no one wants to hear Preaching from a chair OUTRO (= intro + solo, fadeout) ================================================================