Pay The Man Chords

KeyD Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays615

Pay The Man by David Lindley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, A, G and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro:  D  A  G  D  (4x)
  

D       A   G                  D 
Pay the man, you gotta pay the man 
  D                   A 
Before you leave this world 
           G                D 
You got to pay the man 
D       A         G                  D 
Pay the man, everybody gotta pay the man 
     D                      A 
Everybody in the whole wide world 
           G                D 
Has got to pay the man 


         D              A 
Well the senator in the fancy house 
       G                   D 
He's a prince of Babylon 
         D              A 
He?s got a wife and a dog and a cadillac 
    G                   D 
And people all around 
        D                  A 
Got his ways and means and all he needs 
   G                   D 
To keep him satisfied 
      D                   A 
But before he leaves this world 
          G            D 
He got to pay the man 


D       A   G                  D 
Pay the man, you gotta pay the man 
  D                   A 
Before you leave this world 
           G                D 
You got to pay the man 
D       A         G                  D 
Pay the man, everybody gotta pay the man 
     D                      A 
Everybody in the whole wide world 
           G                D 
Has got to pay the man 

 A  Bm  G  D  



D             A 
  Sally had a baby 
   G                D 
It almost drove her crazy 
    D                  A 
She dropped her in the river 
    G                         D 
Now Sally she's a happy girl 
        D            A 
And you see her on a corner 
      G                      D 
She's doing all the best she can 
        D              A 
And she whisper to you soft and low 
           G             D 
You got to pay the man 


D       A   G                  D 
Pay the man, you gotta pay the man 
  D                   A 
Before you leave this world 
           G                D 
You got to pay the man 
D       A         G                  D 
Pay the man, everybody gotta pay the man 
  D                   A 
Before you leave this world 
           G                D 
You got to pay the man 


D  A  G  D (2x) 
 
 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante