Why Does This Always Happen to Me? chords by 
Weird Al Yankovic And Ben Folds 
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Key: Gb major•
Intro 1
B
F#
E
B
Verse 1
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F#
B
E
B
F#
C#
D#m
I was watching my
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B
F#
TV one night when they broke in with a special re port
D#m
About some devastating
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earthquake in Peru
B
F#
D#m
C#
There were thirty thousand crushed to death,
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F#
even more were buried alive
D#m
C#
On the Richter scale it meas
F#sus4
F#
ured 8.2
Verse 2
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And I said, "God,
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F#
please answer me one ques tion?"
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E
B
"Why'd they have to in ter rupt 'The
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B
Simpsons' just for this?"
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B
F#
What a drag, 'cause I was
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B
F#
tap ing it and everything
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F#
And now I'll have to wait for the re run
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to see the part of the show I missed
Verse 3
B
F#
Why does this al ways happen?
E
B
Why does this al ways happen to me?
F#
Why does this al ways happen?
(Why) Why does this al
E
B
ways happen to me?
Verse 4
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Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
E
C#
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
Verse 5
D#m
C#
I was driving down the high way when all
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F#
the traffic slowed to a crawl
D#m
There was a twelve- car pile- up,
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B
F#
everybody dead
D#m
C#
And I saw brains and guts and vi tal
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F#
organs splattered every where
D#m
As well as my friend Robert's
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F#
disem bodied head
Verse 6
B
C#
And I thought - Poor Rob,
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B
F#
I just had lunch with him
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Hey, wait a minute,
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F#
he still owes me money - what a jerk
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B
F#
Well, there's five buck s that
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B
F#
I'm never gon na see again
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F#
Plus now, on top of everything else,
C#
it looks like I'm gonna be late to work
Verse 7
B
F#
Why does this al ways happen?
E
B
Why does this al ways happen to me?
F#
Why does this al ways happen?
(Why) Why does this al
E
B
ways happen to me?
Verse 8
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Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
E
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
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B
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba
Interlude 1
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Bdim
F#
F#m
F#
F#sus4
F#
B
F#
C#
Verse 9
D#m
Oh, the other day,
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B
F#
my boss said we were running low on toner
D#m
And he told me I should
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B
F#
buy another case
D#m
B
Well, I told him I was busy,
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but he still just kept on asking
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C#
So, I turned around and stabbed him in
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the face (right in the face)
Verse 10
B
C#
Oh, and wouldn't you know it,
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B
my knife got stuck
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B
I guess that's prob ably bound
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to happen now and then
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B
F#
But I'm afraid I may have
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B
F#
bent the tip a little
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F#
C#
And I know that blade will nev er ever be quite
as sharp again (quite as sharp again)
Verse 11
Oh, tell me
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F#
Why does this al ways happen?
Why does this al
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B
ways happen to me?
F#
Why does this al ways happen?
E
Why does this al ways
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happen to me?
Verse 12
F#
Why does this al ways
happen to me?
E
(Why does this al ways
B
happen to me?)
F#
Why does this al ways happen
E
to me?
B
(Why does this always happen to me?)
Verse 13
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Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba
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B
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Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba,
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B
ba ba ba ba ba ba
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Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
Verse 14
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Ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba
B
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba
F#
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba
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B
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F# E C# D#m...
B
F#
E
C#
D#m
F#sus4
Bdim
F#m
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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