Biography:
Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of Piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997
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Other songs:
- Brick
- Do It Anyway
- Draw A Crowd
- Fred Jones Part 2
- Landed
- Magic
- Not The Same
- The Luckiest
- Air
- Alice Childress
- Annie Waits
- Army
- Away When You Were Here
- Bad Idea
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- Best Imitation
- Bizarre Christmas Incident
- Boxing
- Cigarette
- Dont Change Your Plans
- Eddie Walker
- Emaline
- Erase Me
- Evaporated
- Fired
- Hold That Thought
- Hospital Song
- House
- Jackson Cannery
- Julianne
- Just Pretend
- Kate
- Leather Jacket
- Lonely Christmas Eve
- Luckiest
- Lullabye
- Mess
- Michael Praytor Five Years Later
- Missing The War
- Narcolepsy
- On Being Frank
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- One Down
- Philosophy
- Rain Drops Keep Falling
- Red Is Blue
- Rockstar
- Selfless Cold And Composed
- She Dont Use Jelly
- Silver Street
- Sky High
- Smoke
- Song For The Dumped
- Stevens Last Night In Town
- Stumblin Home Winter Blues
- The Ascent Of Stan
- The Last Polka
- Twin Falls
- Underground
- Video
- War
- Wheres Summer B
- Your Redneck Past
- Youve Got To Learn To Live With What You Are
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...FIRED... by Ben Folds
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*from 'Rockin' The Suburbs' (2001)*
Intro:
C E7 Am7 F, C E7 Am7 F (x2)
Verse 1.
C E7 Am7 G7 C E7 Am7 F
Lu-cretia walks in-to a room,
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
Be-cause she does it's not the same room.
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 F C E7 Am7 F
The one she wanted to be in, she says;
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7
"Every-where I go, damn, there I am".
Chorus 1:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way some-times?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way?
Abmaj7
Everyone one of you is fired.
Interlude:
C E7 Am7 F, C E7 Am7 F (x2)
Verse 2
C E7 Am7 Fmaj7 C E7 Am7 F
I'm just an ordi-nary guy,
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
And all I want is to be loved; is that so wrong?
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 Fmaj7
Don't think that I don't know,
C E7 Am7 Fmaj7
What you're saying a-bout me;
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7
I hear it all through these thin walls.
Chorus 2:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way some-times?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way.
Bridge 1:
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is oh oh oh oh,
Abmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7 Dm7/G
Every one of you is fired.
Solo:
C C/E Am7 F (x8)
Chorus 3:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way this time?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
'Cos I just wanna walk a-way.
Bridge 2:
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is, oh oh oh oh.
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is, oh oh oh oh.
Fmaj7 Cmaj7, Fmaj7, Dm9 G7
Fired...
Outro:
C E7 Am7 F (x3) Fmaj7,
Abmaj7 C
Motherfucker!...
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
C E7 Am7 F G7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x32010 020100 x02013 133211 323000 302010 x03210 4x665x
Cmaj7 Ebmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7 Dm7/G C/E Dm9
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x32000 x68686 xx0211 xx0222 3x0211 xx2010 x5535x
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 ([email protected])
-----------.............
*from 'Rockin' The Suburbs' (2001)*
Intro:
C E7 Am7 F, C E7 Am7 F (x2)
Verse 1.
C E7 Am7 G7 C E7 Am7 F
Lu-cretia walks in-to a room,
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
Be-cause she does it's not the same room.
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 F C E7 Am7 F
The one she wanted to be in, she says;
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7
"Every-where I go, damn, there I am".
Chorus 1:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way some-times?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way?
Abmaj7
Everyone one of you is fired.
Interlude:
C E7 Am7 F, C E7 Am7 F (x2)
Verse 2
C E7 Am7 Fmaj7 C E7 Am7 F
I'm just an ordi-nary guy,
C E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
And all I want is to be loved; is that so wrong?
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 Fmaj7
Don't think that I don't know,
C E7 Am7 Fmaj7
What you're saying a-bout me;
Cmaj7 E7 Am7 Am7/G Fmaj7
I hear it all through these thin walls.
Chorus 2:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way some-times?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way.
Bridge 1:
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is oh oh oh oh,
Abmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7 Dm7/G
Every one of you is fired.
Solo:
C C/E Am7 F (x8)
Chorus 3:
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And I just wanna walk a-way,
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Won't you let me walk a-way this time?
Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
'Cos I just wanna walk a-way.
Bridge 2:
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is, oh oh oh oh.
Abmaj7
Every one of you is fired,
Ebmaj7
Every one of you is, oh oh oh oh.
Fmaj7 Cmaj7, Fmaj7, Dm9 G7
Fired...
Outro:
C E7 Am7 F (x3) Fmaj7,
Abmaj7 C
Motherfucker!...
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
C E7 Am7 F G7 Am7/G Fmaj7 Abmaj7
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x32010 020100 x02013 133211 323000 302010 x03210 4x665x
Cmaj7 Ebmaj7 Dm7 Dmaj7 Dm7/G C/E Dm9
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x32000 x68686 xx0211 xx0222 3x0211 xx2010 x5535x
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 ([email protected])
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