Band: Green Day
Song: King for a Day
Album: Track 16 of "Nimrod", 1997, Reprise Records

Chords:

A:	5-7-7-x-x-x
B:	7-9-9-x-x-x
C#:	x-4-6-6-x-x
D:	x-5-7-7-x-x
E^:	x-7-9-9-x-x (^ is not an accent, but a high E)
Ev:	0-2-2-x-x-x (not the letter v, but a low E)
G#:	4-6-6-x-x-x



Intro on bass and horns

Verse: (no guitar)	Started at the age of four
My mother went to the grocery store
Went sneaking through her bedroom door
To find something in a size four...

Chorus:			A                    B
Sugar and spice, and everything nice

AA Piano Chord 
              BB Piano Chord 

wasn't meant for only girls

AA Piano Chord 
         BB Piano Chord 

GI Joe in pantyhose is

AA Piano Chord 
                   BB Piano Chord 

making room for the one and only

E^              C#C# Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 
  C#C# Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 

King for a day! princess by dawn

E^              C#C# Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 
   C#C# Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 

King for a day! in a leather thong

E^              C#C# Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 
  C#C# Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 

King for a day! princess by dawn

A                      B                  Ev
Just wait till all the guys get a load of me

Verse: (no guitar)	My daddy threw me in therapy
He thinks I'm not a real man
Who put the drag in the drag queen
Don't knock it until you tried it

Chorus

Horn and bass interlude

Chorus:			Sugar and spice, and everything nice
(same chords		Wasn't meant for only girls
as before)		GI Joe in pantyhose is
making room for the one and only  _
King for a day! princess by dawn   \
King for a day! in a leather thong  : x3
King for a day! princess by dawn  _/
Just wait till all the guys
Just wait till all the guys
Just wait till all the guys get a load of me.

Outro on bass, horns, drums



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