Everybody wants to be famous chords by Julian Velard

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
D 
29 years is a long time I'd say
To have to make a living to find
Am 
a better way
Opportunity knocks when it's
A 
D 
the last thing you want
F#m 
B 
Nobody looks for love in a

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Verse 2

Chinese restaurant

Five foot seven and a smile

like a beauty queen

From a movie scene

Madonna 1983 if you know

what I mean

55 minutes and she lit a cigarette

F#m

Said a thing I'll never forget

Verse 3
Em 
Everybody wants to be famous
A 
Live out their lives
Am 
C 
In the heat of the sun
B 
Be someone
Em 
You see a chance and you take it
A 
Everybody can dance
Am 
C 
Everybody can sing
B 
Everybody can be
Em 
Famous like me

Verse 4
Em 
I'm done with monotony
Look where it's gotten me
D 
Suit jacket and tie
Am 
With a mortgage 20 feet high
I coulda been a painter,
a Beethoven, a Mozart
D 
F#m 
B 
Coulda been  a contender instead
Em 
of attending seminars
29 years and I still don't
D 
know what I want
Looking for love outside the same
Am 
Chinese restaurant

Verse 5

I can still see her climb in

the cab and out the rain

F#m

I can see her roll down the

window and say

Verse 6
Em 
Everybody wants to be famous
Am 
Live out their lives
C 
In the heat of the sun
Be someone
B 
Em 
You see a chance and you take it
A 
Everybody can dance
Am 
C 
Everybody can sing
B 
Everybody can be
Am 
Famous like me

Verse 7
G 
High in the sky
B 
House in the hills
Em 
B 
G 
Show me where to sign this time
Em 
Am 
I   will
G 
I'm tired of waiting in line
B 
F#m 
Waiter bring me the bill
B 

Verse 8
Em 
I want a piece of the action
A 
Am 
C 
I want a slice of the pie
B 
I want a key to a city
And a girl with my name on her thigh
Em 
A 
Why, why can't I have those things
Am 
C 
The things that fame brings
B 
Even if it ends in 15 minutes

Verse 9
B 
Em 
Everybody wants to be famous
A 
Live out their lives
Am 
C 
In the heat of the sun
Be someone
B 
Em 
You see a chance and you take it
Am 
Everybody can dance
A 
Am 
C 
Everybody can sing
B 
Everybody can be
Em 
A 
Am 
Famous like
C 
me