Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

Originally in G, I play in E. Highest note that matters is the 1 (“I got *bills* to pay”)

Intro

EEGAx4

More or less spoken

I was walkEing down the street

When out the coGrner of my eye

I saw a prAetty little thing approaching meG→ D

She said I’ve nEever seen a man

Who loGoks so all alone

And could you usAe a little companyG→ D

And if you pEay the right price

Your evGening will be nice

And you can Ago and send me on my wayG→ D

I said you’re suEch a sweet young thing

Oh why you Gdo this to yourself

Instruments drop out on “this”, the second and third chords are implied

She loAoked at me, and tGhis is what she saDid

Not even fEifteen minutes later

I’m still walkiGng down the street

When-I-saw the sAhadow of a man creep out of sightG→ D

Then he sEwept up from behind

And put a gGun up to my head

He made it cAlear he wasn’t looking for a fightG→ D

He said gEive me all you’ve got

I want your mGoney not your life

But if you tAry to make a move I won’t think twiceG→ D

I told him yEou can have my cash

But first you kGnow I got to ask

Instruments drop out on “this”, the second and third chords are implied

What made you wAant to live this kind of lifeG→ D

Solo

EG→ A→ Dx4

Well now a coEuple hours passed

And I was sittiGng at my house

The day was Awinding down and coming to an endG→ D

And so I turneEd on the TV

And flipped it Gover to the news

And what I sAaw I almost couldn’t comprehendG→ D

I saw a Epreacher man in cuffs

He’d taken Gmoney from the church

He’d stuffed his Abank account with righteous dollar billsG→ D

But even sEtill I can’t say much

Because I Gknow we’re all the same

Instruments drop out on “those”, the second and third chords are implied

Oh yes we alAl seek out to satisfy those thrillsG→ D