JOKING (Amy Ray)
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(The net result of all the instruments is G Em7 Cadd9 D, which you can
 play as 320033 022033 x32033 x00232, but actually, Amy just plays
 G Em C D, or 320003 022000 x32010 x00232.  In other words, Amy never
 plays the D variations; that's Emily's part, way up high on the neck.)


[Intro]
                    

[Verse 1]
              
You said the w

             
orld was magic

         
, I was wide-e

yed and laughi

ng
         
  We were danc

     
ing up to the 

bright side
             
Forget about y

            
our ego, forge


t about your p

ride
         
  And you will

              
 never have to

           
 compromise

[Short Chorus]
              
And you were o

          
nly joking,   

              
you were only 

         
joking, brothe

   
r

[Verse 2]
             
We talked abou

              
t our mothers,

            
 kissed the wo


unds of our fa

thers
         
I could've bee

              
n your sister,

   
 I would've be

en your brothe

r
              
You kissed me 

             
like I was a s

       
oldier headed 

for war
         
I'm a dying ma

         
n, but I don't

 know what for

 [stop]

[Chorus]
              
And you were o

            
nly joking,   

            
    you were o

         
nly joking, br

        
other
              
You were only 

            
joking,       

            
    you were o

         
nly joking, br

        
other
                      (Wide-eyed and laughing)                  (Dancing...)

[Guitar Solo]
          
          
      

[Verse 3]
             
Gravel and gla

          
ss on the bott

om of my feet
         
I bruised my h

            
eels on the sw

ollen street
             
We were girls 

         
in bars, boys 

on the town
         
Bumping like a

              
 pinball off a

 
 careless crow

d

[Verse 4]
             
You said good 

              
friends are ha

 
rd to come by
           
I laughed and 

            
bought you a b

             
eer, it's too 

corny to cry
             
Well, sentimen

           
t given or sen

timent lost
         
  You shake it

              
 off with a sm


irk and a toss

 [stop]
  
[Chorus]
              
And you were o

           
nly joking,   

             
  you were onl

         
y joking, brot

    
her
              
You were only 

          
joking,     yo

            
u were only jo

           
king, brother
              
And you were o

             
nly joking,   

           
            yo

            
u were only jo

            
king, brother
                   (Gravel and glass...)         (I bruised my heels...)

             
You were jokin

              
g,            

           
          you 

          
were only joki

            
ng, brother
    (You kissed me like a soldier...)         (I'm a dying man...)
              
And you were o

             
nly joking,   

           
              

              
 you were only

         
 joking, broth

  
er
                    (...dying man, but I don't know what for...)
              
And you were o

             
nly, and you w

          [
ere only, and 


you were only

       
Joking,       

      
 brother      

      [
              

   
        One tw

o three four..

.

[Instrumental]
           
      

[Outro]
          
Sha-la, sha-la

     
, sha-la, sha-

la
             
Sha-la,       

           
      sha-la, 

         
     sha-la,  

              
              

 
 sha-la
    (Wide-eyed and laughing)         (Dancing up to the bright side)

{repeat and fade}



- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com