The Story of One Chord - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

Tabbed by Adam Bishop

This was easy...there really is just one chord, until he says there are two, and then there 
are two, and he even says what they are!

Most of the time, one guitar plays an E chord while the other plays an E shuffle.

E - 022100
A - x02220

E|------0--0------0--0------0------0--0--0------0--0------0--0---------------
B|--4b--------4b--------4b-----4b-----------4b--------4b--------4-4-3-3-2-2--
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------

(E)
Wow

I said yeah, the story of one chord)

Well way back in the cave times, bunch of cave guys sitting around a fire, sitting around 
a fire with a two string guitar, playing that sucker and they only had one chord, yeah they 
only had one chord, they had one chord, one riff, and it went like this, yo:

Riff:
E|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--
B|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--
G|---------------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------

And they said (gibberish).  Sometimes you could hear 'em, off in the distance, late at 
night, you close your eyes, underneath the full moon, you could hear 'em going, ooh 
mooga mooga (etc).  I can hear 'em, can you hear 'em, they're out there and they're 
singing, they're singing the story of one chord, they're doing that one chord boogie, it 
was a boogie woogie and it went like, like-a like-a like this:

E7
E|-----------------
B|-----------------
G|-----------------
D|-----------------
A|--2--2--4--5--4--
E|--0--0--0--0--0-

(play that four times)

Then one day, a guy came from across the mountaintops, came from the other side of the 
hills, he says "Boys, we need some brand new thrills," he says, "Listen cats, what we need 
is another chord, cause I'm a-mighty bored." And everybody said, "Oh no, you can't have 
another chord." He says "Man," he says, "Man, I'm a-looking for another chord," he says, 
"I'm a-searching for another chord." He went out on a hunt, he went out across the tundra, 
over the mountains, through the woods, he went past grandma's house he did.  He was 
looking for another chord, he said "No longer will I be bored," he says "I'm searching 
searching searching searching," high and low, high and low, looking everywhere, looking 
everywhere, even looking in his underwear.  Then one day, one day he saw it, he did not 
see the letter E, but he saw the letter A, he said "Say, I think that might be another chord 
on top of that hill!" He started walking, he started running, he started having some fun, 
yeah, he said "There is the other chord, man oh man I want that chord, I hear it, hear it, 
come, here comes another chord, (???), hear that chord, here I go..."

A    E          A     E
        Here it goes
        A      E
Here it comes

From now on he is playing A-E, in various rhythms...

Here it comes, comes, comes, here it comes
Here it comes, here it comes
Here it comes, comes, comes, now
I got one chord now I got me another
Yeah I got one chord now I got me another
Yhea two chords, boogly woogly
Two chords, hiya balam (?)
(Gibberish)

Two chords yeah, I love that second chord

End on E