Whats Up

"What's Up?"

Chord progression goes like this throughout the entire song:

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.

25 years of my life and still

Tryin' to to get up that great big hill of

Hope, for a destination. [A]

I realized quickly when I knew I should

That the world was made up of this brotherhood of

Man, for whatever that means. [A]

{Rest of the song's chord progression is the same thing}

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?"

And I try, oh my god, do I try

I try all the [D] time, in this institution. [A]

And I pray, oh my god, do I pray

I pray every single [D] day, for a revolution. [A]

25 years of my life and still

Tryin' to get up that great big hill of

Hope, for a destination