Mr Richards Chords & Lyrics by Frank Turner
Mr Richards
guitar chords lyrics
The Main riff is a muted G to C
Verse 1:
G-C
One fine day near the end of the tax year
C
Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear
D Am C D G-C
Who would be at his retirement party
Verse 2:
G-C
And though he still had years to go before he
C
Slipped over the edge of the workforce
D Am C D G-C
The question remained and in his wake there came an army
Chorus:
Em C G D
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
Em C G D
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
Em C G D
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
Em C (Back to main riff)G-C
That's when his roof caved in
Verse 3:
G-C
And so he made a list of all the people he worked with
C
And cut it down to the ones he got on with
D Am C D G-C
Paired each one off with the decade of his career
Verse 4:
G-C
And then he thought of all his friends from back home
C
The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known
D Am C D G-C
And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here
Chorus:
Em C G D
What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?
Em C G D
He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out
Em C G D
And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out
Em G
That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days
F
So he could buy icers and microwaves
Em D C
And he only looks forward to his holidays
That's when his roof caved in.
Bridge:
D Em Am C C/B
And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and
Am D
fat little kids,
D Em Am C C/B
And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records
Am D
of the things that you did,
D Em Am C C/B
But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen
Am D
to be sleeping on?
D Em F(Let Ring)
As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the
C(Let Ring) G-C
drop-outs, that he could never live that way.
F F Em
But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.
Instrumental Break. Em C G D Em C G G F F G Em C
Final Verse:
C-G
Mr Richards decided on the very next morning
C
To make his life and work the same thing
D Am C D G
Cleared he desk, he hit the road and he never retired.
