My Life Is Good

---------------------------------------------------------------------------                      My Life Is Good - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Randy Newman From: “Trouble in Paradise” (1983) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Capo: 3rd fret Play: D Key: F For chords in original key transpose +3 (and “use flats”) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS Gadd9     3-x-0-2-0-3 G/D       x-x-0-4-3-3 D5        x-x-0-2-3-x Dsus2     x-x-0-2-3-0 DmMaj7    x-x-0-2-2-1 Dm7       x-x-0-2-1-1 Dm6       x-x-0-2-0-1 Eb/Db     x-x-1-1-2-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | | % | | % | Gadd9 | % | Asus4 | Asus4 | [Verse] A couple weeks ago My wife and I Took a little trip down to Mexico Met this young girl there We brought her back with us Now she lives with us In Our Home [Bridge] She cleans the hallway She cleans the stair She cleans the livingroom She wipes the baby’s ass She drives the kids to school She does the laundry too She wrote this song for me Listen ... Yeah [Verse 2] The other afternoon My wife and I Took a little ride into Beverly Hills Went to the private school Our oldest child attends Many famous people send their children there His teacher says to us "We have a problem here This child just will not do A thing I tell him to He’s such a big old thing He hurts the other children All the games they play He plays so rough." [Bridge] Hold it teacher Wait a minute Maybe my ears are clogged or somethin’ Maybe I’m not understanding the English language Dear you don’t seem to realize [Chorus] My life is good Gadd9      D My life is good My life is good you old bat Gadd9       | Asus4 | A | My Life my Life [Verse 3] Just this evening Some young associates of ours Are flying in to see us from New York City They’re gonn stay with us Oh a couple of weeks or so I’m gonn take ’em to Restaurants and everything [Bridge] Gonna get’em some Real good cocaine They don’t get much Where they come from And this one’s guy wife Is such a pretty little brown thing I’m liable to give her a poke or two whaddaya think of that? [Middle 9] Teacher let me tell you a little story Just this morning my wife and I Went to this hotel in the hills That’s right the Bel-Air Hotel Where a very good friend of ours happens to be staying And the name of this young man Is Mr Bruce Springsteen that’s right yeah We talked about this kind of woodblock or something This new guitar we like And you know what he said to me? I’ll tell you what he said to me He said "Rand I’m tired How would you like to be the Boss for a while?" Well ... yeah Blow Big Man ... blow [Chorus] My life is good Gadd9      D My life is good you old bat My life is good Gadd9       D My Life my Life Is good                             [Outro] (repeat and fade)