Sad Chords & Tabs

by Bo Burnham

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Main Pattern:
BPM: 102
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 101]

[Intro]
It's about all the sad stuff I see in the world
I see a lot of sad stuff and it's called sad
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        C        F           C/G          Em                             
Get on my, level Maddison. Just picture a depressed onion cutting itself.
C      F     C/G          Em
C      F     C/G     Em
        C                  F   
I met a homeless man named Rich
C          G        
Isn't that terrible?
         C               F  
I saw a flyer for a lost dog
        Am                    Em
And the dog didn't have any legs
         C        F    Am     G       
I saw a diabetic kid trick-or-treating
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I saw a giraffe who had a short neck
Am           G         
That was sad, or a deer
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I saw an old man get hit by a train
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He didn't see it in the pouring rain
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He didn't hear me shout, "Look out for the train!"
Because I didn't say anything.
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I just thought to myself, "Ooh, this is gonna be sad."
C      Em  
And it was.
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I'm a genius.
        C                    F
I saw a man with only one eye
C       G    
In a 3D movie
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I saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone
Am                           Em
Directly on his mother's corpse
        C                  F  
I saw a kitten stuck in a tree
         Am                       G           
Then the kitten jumped off and he hung himself
          C            F     Am
I saw a boy who had red hair.
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I went to a store looking for something to buy
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But they only sold paintings of the same sad guy
    C                      G       
No, wait--this store sells mirrors!
           E         
See what I did there?
               C
Let's rock! No.

[Bridge]
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[Spoken]

C      Em    F      Fm       
The world's so sad, Maddison.
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Pain, war, genocide, racism, sexism.
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But I've gotta remember there's good things about it too.
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Like the fact that none of that's happening to me! Score!
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Still, though, it's hard not to be sad about it.
C    Em   F   Fm   
How do y'all do it?
I've been telling you guys terribly sad things this whole song; you
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haven't been sad at all.
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You've been happy--no, you've been laughing.
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That's it, laughter, it's the key to everything.
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It's the way to solve all the sadness in the world!
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I mean not for the people that are actually sad,
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but the people like us that've gotta fucking deal with them all the time.
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Being a comedian isn't being an insensitive prick
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capitalizing on the most animalistic impulses of the public;
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it's being a hero! The world isn't sad. The world's funny!
    G           
I'm a sociopath!
         C                 F  
I saw an old man slip and fall
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Hey, what a fucking idiot
        C                       F      
I saw a woman at her daughter's funeral
Am        G              
Ha ha ha. Classic comedy.
C                        F  
Everything that once was sad
Am         G        
Is somehow funny now
     C            F   
The Holocaust and 9/11
Am                G        
That shit's funny 24/7, cuz
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Tragedy will be exclusively joked about
            E                    F  C
Because my empathy is bumming me out
          G     E
Goodbye, sadness
          C F
Hello jokes.