Ballad Of Big Nothing chords

Elliott Smith

Key: 

Simplify chords 

  			Intro: C Am C Am Fm G 

G 
Throwing candy out to the crowd 
C                 D 
Dragging down the main 
    G 
The helpless little thing with the dirty mouth 
      C                       F 
Who's always got something to say 
G 
You're sitting at home now 
C                           D 
Waiting for your brother to call 
Dm        G 
I saw him down at the alley 
Fm                      G 
Having had enough of it all 
             C                    Am                   Fm Dm Fm G 
Said you can do what you want to whenever you want to 
         C                           Am                 Fm Dm Fm G 
You can do what you want to, there's no one to stop you 
G                                 C 
All spit and spite, you're up all night 
               D 
And down every day 
G 
A tired man with only hours to go 
     C                   F 
Just waiting to be taken away 
G 
Getting into the back of a car 
    C               D 
For candy from some stranger 
Dm             G                  Fm 
watching the parade with pinpoint eyes 
          G 
Full of smoldering anger 
        C                    Am                   Fm Dm Fm G 
You can do what you want to whenever you want to 
        C                    Am                   Fm Dm Fm G 
You can do what you want to, there's no one to stop you 
            C                     Am 
Now you can do what you want to whenever you want to 
C                      Am 
Do what you want to whenever you want to 
G                     E 
Do what you want to whenever you want to 
Am                        D 
Though it doesn't mean a thing 
F          Fm 
Big nothing 

C Am C Am Fm G C