Originally in E, I play in A
Highest note that matters is the 3 (“all I wanna *do*”)
Intro, 7’s or 9’s are fine instead of 13’s
Barre chords throughout
| D#13 | D13 |
| → | This ain’t no disco |
| D#13 | D13 |
| → | It ain’t no country club either |
| D#13 | D13 |
| → | This is L.A. |
Vox on the 1
| A7 |
| All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die |
| F7 | G9 | |
| Says the | man next to me out of nowhere |
| A7 | |
| It’s a | propos of nothing, he says his name is William |
| F7 | G9 | |
| But I’m sure | he’s Bill or Billy or M | ac or Buddy |
| A7 | |
| And he’s plain | ugly to me, and I wonder if he’s |
| F7 | G9 |
| Ever had a day of fun in his whole life |
| A7 |
| Now we are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday |
| F7 | G9 | |
| In the ba | r that faces the giant c | ar wash |
| A7 | |
| And the good | people of the world are washing their cars on their lunch breaks |
| F7 | G9 | D#6 |
| Hosing and scrubbing as b | est they can in skirts and su | its |
| D#6 | D6 | D#6 |
| → | And they drive their shiny Datsuns and B | uicks |
| D#6 | D6 | D#6 |
| → | Back to the phone company, the record stor | e too |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | Well, they’re nothing like Billy and me |
Vox on 5 6 1 2 3 on “all I wanna do”
| A7 | |
| ‘Cause all I wanna d | o is have some fun |
Vox on the b5 of the chord on “feeling” (!), same note (now the the 3 of the new chord) on “only”
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling I’m not the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling I’m not the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
Vox on 5 5 5 of the chord on “sun comes up”
| F7 | E7 | A7 | |
| Until the s | un comes up over | Santa Monica Boulevard |
| A7 | A7 | F7 | G9 |
| A7 |
| I like a good beer buzz, early in the morning |
| F7 | G9 | |
| And | Billy likes to peal the labels from his b | ottles of bud |
| A7 |
| He shreds them on the bar then he lights up every match |
| F7 | G9 | |
| In an oversized pa | ck letting each one burn |
| A7 | |
| Down to his | thick fingers before blowing and cursing them out |
| F7 | G9 |
| He’s watching the bottles of b | ud as they spin on the floor |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | And a happy couple enters the bar |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | Dangerously, close to one another |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | The bartender looks up from his want ads |
| A7 | |
| But all I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling I’m not the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling I’m not the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | E7 | A7 | |
| Until the s | un comes up over | Santa Monica Boulevard |
| A7 | A7 | F7 | G9 |
| A7 | A7 | F7 | G9 |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | Otherwise the bar is ours |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | The day and the night and the car wash, too |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | The matches and the Buds, and the clean and dirty cars |
| D#6 | D6 |
| → | The sun and the moon |
| A7 | |
| But all I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling I’m not the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I got a fe | eling the party has | just begun |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | G9 | |
| I won’t | tell you that you’re the o | nly one |
| A7 | |
| All I wanna d | o is have some fun |
| F7 | E7 | A7 | |
| Until the s | un comes up over | Santa Monica Boulevard |
| F7 | E7 | A7 | |
| Until the s | un comes up over | Santa Monica Boulevard |
| F7 | G9 | A7 |