How to Write a Song chords by
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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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How to write a song

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How to write a song

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How to write a song

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Now, if you

Verse 2

write it on guitar

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Place your guitar upon your knee

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If you write it on piano

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Don't do that

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Place your fingers on the

Verse 3

strings

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Of your guitar, not your piano

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If you write it on piano

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Don't do that

Verse 4

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Now, strum or press together feeling

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This might take a little time, yeah

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Now, think of something sad or

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something funny

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Which inevitably brings us

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to the rhyme

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Let's assume you're just an asshole

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And there's

Verse 5

nothing in your pain

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It might help if you remember

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These helpful little hints

Verse 6

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Don't try to rhyme "samba"

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With anything, yeah

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That goes for "homage"

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As well

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But notice how

Verse 7

cleverly

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I just used them both

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And all I have to do

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Is rhyme well

Verse 8

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You've got to be tricky

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'Cause to avoid these words takes talent

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So never,

ever trap yourself like that

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Or you'll end up saying words like

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Uh, balent or falent

Or dalent or

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Oh, well I'm sure you'll catch

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on fast

Verse 9

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Now, some tips on tempo And some

subjects to avoid

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Like the use of the word "bandit"

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Unless you really have to say it

Verse 10

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That's for tempo

And if you say "time"

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That's strictly up to you

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Because that depends on

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how you play it

Verse 11

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Now, let's do once

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Now, think of a rhyme

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That's it,

you're doing fine

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Think of the good time

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We just had together

Verse 12

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If you practice these instructions

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On the board of some new sale

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If you listen very carefully

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I'm sure you'll shout it there

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I said shout Shout

Verse 13

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Why, heh- heh,

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that rhymes with talent

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That takes talent

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That is talent

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Oh, my God

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Shout it again

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Oh, oh, oh

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Shout it rhymes with talent, uh

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That takes talent, uh- huh- huh

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That is talent

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I cannot stand it

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Woah

Oh- ah- oh

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Ah- ah- oh

Ah, talent

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Now, do it again

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Whoa, whoa

Outro 1

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