Advertising Man

by David Wilcox

transcription by Bill Boroson (5/7/95)

INTRO: C E7 Fmaj7 G7sus4 G7 C Csus4

If you want some real contentment, to live life at its best,

F+2 Fm

You can buy these dry tobacco leaves, to breathe into your chest.

And then look up at the billboard, while all the promises come

G Gsus4/A G5(add C#)/B G/B

true, for you.

You'll feel alive with pleasure, playful as a child.

F+2 Fm

You've come to where the freedom is. You're cool and mild.

You'll laugh with every lungful as the change comes

G7sus4 G7 C Csus4 G7sus4

over you.

G7sus4 G7 C G7sus4 G7 C

So look up at the billboard. See her smiling, sexy and tan.

Csus4 G7sus4 G7 C Am7 D7/F# G Gsus4/A

But the only one who's laughing is the advertising man.

Those portraits of pleasure, of those who like to smoke,

They're laughing in the photograph, but we don't get the joke.

Now why would they be smiling while they're looking

G Gsus4/A G5(add C#)/B G/B

down our way?

I guess they're making easy money climbing up the rungs,

>From selling us a parasite that's feeding on our lungs.

They must be laughing in astonishment that we believe the things

G7sus4 G7 C Csus4 G7sus4

they say.

G7sus4 G7 C G7sus4 G7 C

So look up at the billboard. See her smiling, sexy and tan.

Csus4 G7sus4 G7 C Am7 D7/F# G Gsus4/A

But the only one who's laughing is the advertising man.

Now crack'll kill you quickly. That's why it's got to go.

F+2 Fm

They'll get more of your money if they kill you nice and slow.

[E] [D] [C] [B] [A] [G] G* [G]

And the on - ly one who's laugh - ing is the

G7sus4 G7sus4 G7sus4 [B] [C] [G] G7sus4 C+2 C

ad - ver - ti - sing man.

[] - play individual notes

* - strum from high to low strings

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6 5 4 3 2 1

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A7 x 0 2 0 2 0

C x 3 2 0 1 3

C+2 x 3 0 2 1 x

Csus4 x 3 3 0 1 x

D7 x x 0 5 3 x

D7/F# 2 x 0 2 1 x

D6 x x 0 4 3 x

E7 0 2 0 1 0 0

F 1 3 3 2 1 1

Fm 1 3 3 1 1 1

F+2 x x 3 1 1 3

Fmaj7 x x 3 2 1 0

G 3 x 0 0 0 x

G/B x 2 0 0 3 x

G7 3 x 3 0 0 x

G7sus4 3 x 3 0 1 x

Gsus4/A x 0 0 0 1 x

G5(add C#)/B x 2 0 0 2 x

From: Brian Handy <handy@condor.physics.montana.edu>