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Date: Tue, 01 Jan 80 01:28:25 -0800
From: Jeff Elkins 
Subject: CRD: Advertising Man by David Wilcox

                  "Advertising Man"

                                  by David Wilcox

                     transcription by Bill Boroson (5/7/95)


INTRO: C  E7  Fmaj7  G7sus4  G7  C  Csus4


       C                              E7
If you want some real contentment, to live life at its best,

        F+2                              Fm
You can buy these dry tobacco leaves, to breathe into your chest.

         C              A7         D7            D6
And then look up at the billboard, while all the promises come

G   Gsus4/A          G5(add C#)/B  G/B
true,         for you.



             C                   E7
You'll feel alive with pleasure, playful as a child.

       F+2                                   Fm
You've come to where the freedom is.  You're cool and mild.

       C                A7     D7      D6
You'll laugh with every lungful as the change comes

     G7sus4  G7  C  Csus4  G7sus4
over you.



   G7sus4       G7    C               G7sus4        G7  C
So look up at the billboard.  See her smiling, sexy and tan.

       Csus4 G7sus4  G7    C    Am7        D7/F#       G  Gsus4/A
G/B
But the only   one   who's laughing is the advertising man.



       C                        E7
Those portraits of pleasure, of those who like to smoke,

        F                               Fm
They're laughing in the photograph, but we don't get the joke.

    C                 A7      D7            D6
Now why would they be smiling while they're looking

         G   Gsus4/A   G5(add C#)/B   G/B
down our way?



                       C          E7
I guess they're making easy money climbing up the rungs,

     F                            Fm
>From selling us a parasite that's feeding on our lungs.

             C           A7                D7            D6

They must be laughing in astonishment that we believe the things

        G7sus4  G7  C  Csus4  G7sus4
they say.



   G7sus4       G7    C               G7sus4        G7  C
So look up at the billboard.  See her smiling, sexy and tan.

       Csus4 G7sus4  G7    C    Am7        D7/F#       G  Gsus4/A
G/B
But the only   one   who's laughing is the advertising man.



    C                                  E7
Now crack'll kill you quickly.  That's why it's got to go.

        F+2                            Fm
They'll get more of your money if they kill you nice and slow.

        [E] [D]  [C] [B]   [A]     [G]  G* [G]
And the on - ly  one who's laugh - ing         is the

G7sus4   G7sus4      G7sus4      [B]  [C] [G] G7sus4  C+2  C
ad    -   ver    -    ti    -    sing man.


[] - play individual notes

* - strum from high to low strings


               ===========
               6 5 4 3 2 1
               ===========
A7             x 0 2 0 2 0
C              x 3 2 0 1 3
C+2            x 3 0 2 1 x
Csus4          x 3 3 0 1 x
D7             x x 0 5 3 x
D7/F#          2 x 0 2 1 x
D6             x x 0 4 3 x
E7             0 2 0 1 0 0
F              1 3 3 2 1 1
Fm             1 3 3 1 1 1
F+2            x x 3 1 1 3
Fmaj7          x x 3 2 1 0
G              3 x 0 0 0 x
G/B            x 2 0 0 3 x
G7             3 x 3 0 0 x
G7sus4         3 x 3 0 1 x
Gsus4/A        x 0 0 0 1 x
G5(add C#)/B   x 2 0 0 2 x

From: Brian Handy