Chippin' Away

{capo: 2}
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
spoken):

Are you ready?

Thumbs are up.

One, two, three, four.

{section: Verse 1}
[F]Hey mister take a-load-off let-me-explain,
[F]I'm not hidin' from-'y-carry-the-blame,
[F]Have-yourself a good-look from the Sa-ska-toon plain
[F]Nothing's that clear in life I swear by the-claim.
[Bb]I rack my conscience for the will to achieve;
Bb      [guitar pause]                     [F; see below]
I could lie, die, cry and to this day not receive.

{sot}e|----1------|{eot}
{sot}B|-0s3-------|
G|-----2-0---|
D|---------3-|{eot}

{section: Chorus 1}
[F]             [C]      [F]          [C]  [F]
C[C]ause I'm n[F]ot stea[C]dy like Eddy. ...I may not smile for a while.
[F]Got-a-little-of-the-[C]devil and a [F]mean streak. [C]
[F]'cz-I-hope to [C]one, day, [F]be, com-plete.
                C  [guitar pause]    F             [stop]
In-the-meantime, yes..... We're just chippin'-away.

{section: Verse 2}
[gets fuller now]  F
Eh, got-'ole Michael-Hehir playin'-on-guitar.
[F]Sometimes we go-for-months, not talk at-all.
[F]No crumblin' wall here, the journey's come-too-far.
[F]'O rocket spaceship, take us to-the-stars!
[C]They're building castles straight up to the sky,
        C  [guitar pause]
But the Empire States still looks to me like it's high...

{section: Chorus 1}
again)

[Sing once with inserted bridge below.
Sing again with first two lines quiet
Sing again with ohno's and yea's all over]

[F]       [C]      [F]          [C] [F]         [C]
I'm not st[F]eady lik[C]e Eddy.   I may not smile for a while.
[F]Got-a-little-of-the-[C]devil and a [F]mean streak.  [C]
'cz-[F]I hope-to [C]one, day, [F]be, com-plete, yea

[After first iteration only:
                   [C]  [guitar pause]  [F]
'n-in the meantime, yes... we're just chippin'-away.

O yea ]

{section: Chorus 2}
[F]               [C]         [F]       [C]    [F]
 God [C] I'm not s[F]teady lik[C]e Eddy, 'o oh. I may not smile for a-while.
[F]God, bless, the poor man, who knoooows what-he-see[C]ks.
[F]'cz-I hope to one day be complete.
               [C]  [guitar pause]                 [F]
In the meantime, yea, ... ... ... we're just ... chippin'-away.

[F]Woo-o-o-oo, [F]Woo-o-o-oo, [F]Woo-o-o-oo.