By Dan Bern
Transcribed by Jared
Note: This is a fun song to play and pretty simple to learn. Here is a simplified version, although it sounds better to play around with bar chord variations.
F D
I saw the Dalai Lama at the Hollywood Bowl
Bb C
Talking to the people with their beepers and their cell phones
F D
Wilt Chamberlain, he’s all gone
Bb C
O'Neal, Shaquille Oneil keeps rapping on
F
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
D
Wood fuckin racket
Bb C
I can’t keep it on the line no more
F
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
D
Wood fuckin racket
Bb C
Something I can hold on to
Living day by day
Living hand to mouth
Trying to go north
Keep on heading south
Maybe If I had a pension plan
Maybe If I had a wife
Maybe If I’d ever made a single
Plan in my life
(ready)
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
Wood fuckin racket
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
Bb
This one is too light
C
This one is too tight
F D
This one I can hardly even feel
C
I don’t believe it is real
I saw the Dalai Lama at the Hollywood Bowl
Goldie Hawn was there and some people from some soap opera
I wanted to ask him, “How do you get along?”
When the rest of the world ain’t singing your song
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
Wood fuckin racket
I can’t keep it on the line anymore
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
Wood fuckin racket
Something I can hold on
Give me my goddamn Jack Kramer
Wood fuckin racket
Something I can hold on to