Dan’s Big Awesome Acoustic Songbook

Cheap Trick - Surrender

Originally in B, I play in G, highest note that matters is the 5

This version omits the key change at the end, for guitar reasons more than vocal reasons

This is not a typo, this actually happens a half-step lower this time than all the other times

E/F#F#

Vox on the 5 on “mother”

GMother told me, Dyes she told me

CI’d meet girls like Gyou

She Galso told me Dstay away

You’ll Cnever know what you’ll Gcatch

CJust the other Dday I heard

Of a Gsoldier’s falling off

Some CIndonesian Djunk

That’s going ‘Ground

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

They Dsus4just seem a little Cweird

SurGrender, surEm7render

But Dsus4don’t give yourself aCway, Chey-ey-ey-ey, Chey-ay-ay

F/GG

GFather says your Dmother’s right

She’s Creally up on Gthings

BeGfore we married DMommy served

In the CWACs in the PhilipGpines

Now CI had heard the DWACs recruited

GOld maids for the war

But CMommy isn’t Done of those

I’ve Gknown her all these years

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

They Dsus4just seem a little Cweird

SurGrender, surEm7render

But Dsus4don’t give yourself aCway, Chey-ey-ey-eyy, Chey-ay-ay

F/GG

GWhatever happened to Dall this season’s

CLosers of the Gyear

GEvery time I Dgot to thinking

CWhere’d they disaGppear

CThen I woke up, DMom and Dad

Are Grolling on the couch

CRolling numbers, Drock and rolling

Got Gmy Kiss records out

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

They Dsus4just seem a little Cweird

SurGrender, surEm7render

But Dsus4don’t give yourself Caway, Chey-ey-ey-ey, Chey-ay-ay

AwaGy CGD

With “surrender, surrender”

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

But Dsus4don’t give yourself Caway

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

But Dsus4don’t give yourself Caway

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

But Dsus4don’t give yourself Caway

GMommy’s alright, Em7Daddy’s alright

But Dsus4don’t give yourself Caway