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Tried To Be A Man easy guitar chords by 
Rickie Lee Jones
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Verse 1
Em
'Round here we don't need
no one trying to set us straight
I got a redneck in plaid suit,
he's on TV real late
Balalaikas tolling,
Sheba plays the flute
There's Communists and Capitalists
Verse 2
They all think I'm cute
A
You know, I'm out of rehab
You know, I'm with the band
Em
Anyway I think it's time to
Verse 3
say exactly what I am
D
A
'Cause I tried to be a man
Em
But that's what I'm not
meant to be
C
G
You know I tried to be a man
Em
But that's not what I came to be
Verse 4
Em
Well, there's seven years
of famine
And seven years of drought
Seven years of Sam
You know what I'm talking about
And it won't take very long
before it's hard to tell
If they're trying to take you back with him
A
To heaven or to hell
Verse 5
A
They make her so pretty She
won't be pretty long
Em
She'll be rising out of the sea
of planet Babylon
Verse 6
D
A
'Cause she tried to be a man
Em
That's not what she came to be
C
G
Because she tried to be a man
Em
That's not what she came to be
Interlude 1
F#
Em
A
Em
Am
Em
Verse 7
Em
She's living down on Bronson
G
Am
She never blinks her eyes
Em
The family in Wisconsin
B
Look like they're hypnotized
Em
I get a strange sensation
When I lay down in my bed
In fact, if you could drop me
on the corner here
Verse 8
A
Instead on planet Babylon
Am
That's where they wrote the book
Em
There's something here about you,
D
come on and take a look
Verse 9
A
You tried to be a man
Am
Em
But that's not what you came to be
It says, it says, it says, it says
C
G
You tried to be a man
Em
But that's not what you came to be
Verse 10
Em
Came to be
What you came to be
Outro 1
That's not what you came to be
Em
A
Em
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