From: Hahn Huang
Subject: 4 Non Blondes: What's Up
Hahn Huang (hahn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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* What's Up? * 4 Non Blondes *
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Chord progression goes like this throughout the entire song
A Bmin D A
v v v v v v v ^ v v v v ^
The rhythm goes like this: 4 8 8 4 8 8 8 8 8 4 8 8 8 This is a little crude
but listen to the song to get the exact rhythm. There's a little more
swing to it than how I wrote it. The apostrophe represents a dotted note
(in this case, a dotted quarter note).
The first A is like this: 5-- the second A is: o--
5-- 3--
-6- 3--
--7 3--
x x
x x
The Bmin is: 2-- the D is: 2--
-3- -3-
--4 2--
--4 --4
x x
x x
The progression is easy to play if you treat them all as bar chords.
Just leave your forefinger on the second fret over strings 1,2,3,and 4
except for the second A where you have to slightly raise your finger so that
the E string is open. Slide down from the first A to the Bmin.
[Verse 1]
[A] 25 years of my life and still
[Bmin] Tryin' to to get up that great big hill of
[D] Hope, for a destination. [A]
[A] I realized quickly when I knew I should
[Bmin] That the world was made up of this brotherhood of
[D] Man, for whatever that means. [A]
{Rest of the song's chord progression is the same thing}
[Chorus]
And so I cry sometimes, when I'm lying in bed
just to get all out, what's in my head, then
I, I am feeling, a little peculiar.
And so I wake in the morning, and I step outside
And I take a deep breath, and I get real high, and
I, scream from the top of my lungs, "What's going on?"
And I say, "Hey yeah yeah hey, hey yeah yeah."
I said, "Hey, what's going on?"
And I say, "Hey yeah yeah hey, hey yeah yeah."
I said, "Hey, what's going on?"
[Verse 2]
[A] And I try, oh my god, do I try
[Bmin] I try all the [D] time, in this institution. [A]
[A] And I pray, oh my god, do I pray
[Bmin] I pray every single [D] day, for a revolution. [A]
[Chorus and last four lines of the chorus are repeated 2x more]
[Verse 3]
25 years of my life and still
Tryin' to get up that great big hill of
Hope, for a destination
If anyone sees any mistakes in here, please feel free to post corrections
(I'd like to know them myself).
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