(Cover) Would You Like to Play the Guitar?

My version of Pat Donahue's song Would You Like to Play the Guitar? with the tune from "swinging on a star" by Bill Crosby.
With inspiration from "Fretkillr".

I don't have any tabs, I just listen to the song, saw fretkillr's video and learned it. I know i don't sing while i play, i've recorded that part after because I only got one mic.

Lyric:
Would you like to play the guitar?
Carry money home in a jar
From a coffeehouse or a bar
Or would you rather get a job?

A job is the thing that makes you get out of bed
And work every day until you're dead.
Your back is achin' and your brain in numb
And you just can't wait until the weekend comes
But if you don't want to starve or big or rob
You're gonna have to get a job

Or would you like to play the guitar
Drive for miles and miles in your car
And pretend that you're a big star
Or would you rather book the gig?

An agent's the guy who takes his twenty percent
What he says ain't always what he meant.
He'll clean you out in ways you never thought
Because he's good at business and he knows you're not.
And then he'll sue if you ever make it big
'Cause he's the guy who booked the gig.

Or would you like to play the guitar
For a living--har-dee-har-har.
I'll admit it's kind of bizarre
Or would you rather be the wife?

The wife is the one who has to rescue our butts
She's either a saint or else she's nuts.
She gets impatient and she gets annoyed
'Cause she's the one who must remain employed
And, by the way, if you want to wreck your life
Become a guitar player's wife.

'Cause all the monkeys ain't in the zoo.
They can be trained to play guitar too.
Some do a whole lot better than you
But even if you don't go far
You could be worse off than you are
...At least you're playing your guitar.

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• folk
• onehandtwofingers
• denmark
• Would
• You
• Like
• to
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• the
• guitar?
• amazing
• blues
• jazz

[Newbee1988]

Do you know if there are some tab of this? or did you learn by ear?

[OneHandTwoFingers]

Thanks for the comment before :) Well i don't have any tabs for the song, just learned it by ear, but maybe i can work some tabs for you.

[coachdoc49]

Very nice. Clean, sweet and quick.

[OneHandTwoFingers]

Thanks.

[t0t37]

NICE^^

[OneHandTwoFingers]

thank you mate

[deeder001]

BING....BING CROSBY! haha, kids. Really nice rendition, BTW. Well done!

[chinchusalmon]

Nice playing!

[danskal]

Nice song (I don't know enough to know how good it is, but it sounds good)..... by the way - you either mean Bill Cosby or Bing Crosby - since Bing Crosby is a musician, I guess that's who you mean :o)

[A21Joker]

great!!!!!! and the chords seem to be simpler than fretkillr's:)

[ignatswilliams]

That is way ahead of everybody else...genius, even; you need an agent.

[harmonicahero1]

Pleeeze...where can one find the chords for this??

[BirthOfFrankenstein]

I can play the guitar but i need a job =\

[tubingtomtom]

DANG! That was good! FK is the best. He would be proud of that. So should you.

[weejasper]

hey good buddy, I liked this version and I can see the changes you've made. I've just posted my version of this song which I learned from fk. don't suppose you'd care to take a look.. btw 5*

[CharlieStinson]

If some day you have the tabs please send me :p !!!

It would be awesome x) !

'cause you're...well... just awesome ^^.