Rise Up Singing: Mercedes-Benz

By Janis Joplin and Michael McClure
Rise Up Singing chapter: America, p.3
D - G D / D - - - / - - G D / - - G D
or the way I like to play it:
D - G D / D - - A / D - G D / - - G D

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?
My friends all have Porsches, I must make amends

[I don't think it would be such a wild guess to suggest that Janis Joplin probably didn't know what 'to make amends' meant. I a friend of mine wrote that in a poem, I'd cringe. Somehow it seems to carry the weight of history in this song, however.]

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?

Oh Lord won't you buy me a colour T.V.?
Dialing for dollars is trying to find me
I'll wait for delivery each day until three

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?
I'm counting on You, Lord, please don't let me down
Prove that you love me and buy the next round

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[saskia3903]

is very shit man

[fernandoraro]

Demora de mais só p começar a cantar... Shit...

[MrRedFredSaid]

There was a time when: (1) many people still had black and white tv's and (2) telephones had dials (so did tv's for that matter!) and (3) Dialing for Dollars was a tv program that gave away money...... Dang, now I feel old.

[porkchop6021]

I also use the 3 chords roll with this song, but i usually play it in Em. (E, A, ,B). i like to play alot of funky, chicken pickin, type fill in licks in between the chord changes. And a solo after the 2nd verse.

[offyonder]

Way to go Alianis.