Meanwhile Rick James ukulele

Meanwhile Rick James

• Gm

“Meanwhile, Rick James” by Cake
Standard Tuning

Gm (3 x 0 3 3 x)
F  (1 3 3 2 1 1)
A# (x 1 3 3 3 1)
C  (x 3 2 0 1 0)
Dm (x 5 7 7 6 5)
D# (x 6 8 8 8 6)
D#m(x 6 8 8 7 6)

Intro:
Gm       F
Gm       F

Gm
Disempowered, the scattering flock
F
Dances in a fever at the castle rock
Gm
Dust-devil cypress and ripening fruit
F
Ascending quick into the author’s bathroom
A#
Fawn, Jo, and Tootsie are out on a wire
C
Lettuce-toothed junkies all full of desire

F    C          A#              C  F  A#
Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude, and there’s nothing I can do
F    C          A#              C  F  A#
Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude, and there’s nothing I can do
Dm        Gm                           Dm         Gm
             And there’s nothing I can say to you
                          D#  D#m                      A#
I’ve got a lot of work to do, I guess I’ll leave it up to you

Gm
Uninvited, we’ll stay if we want
F
Searching through your closets for your grandfather’s gun
Gm
We’ll swim in your kidney, kidney shaped pool
F
Scratching at the bottom for another clue, yeah
A#
Fawn, Jo, and Tootsie are out on a wire
C
Lettuce-toothed junkies all full of desire

F    C          A#              C  F  A#
Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude, and there’s nothing I can do
F    C          A#              C  F  A#
Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude, and there’s nothing I can do
F    C          A#                          C      F  A#  
                And there’s nothing I can say      to you
F    C          A#              C  F  A#
Ahhhh                        Ahhhhhh  
                          Dm
And there’s nothing I can do
Gm                               Dm
And there’s nothing I can say to you
                          D#  D#m                      A#
I’ve got a lot of work to do, I guess Ill leave it up to you

Outro:
Gm     F
Gm     F

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