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
How to write a song
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
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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
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cleverly
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F#m
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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
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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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F#m
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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
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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
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it
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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
Oh
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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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