Fair Warning from Initiation (1975) (Todd Rundgren) Gmaj7 A Bm9 Gmaj7 You know, wishing won't make it so A Bm9 Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Gmaj7 Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it A The Supreme Court won't do it, Bm9 the president and the congress won't do it Gmaj7 A The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, Bm9 the sun and the moon won't do it Gmaj7 And God won't do it, A and I certainly won't do it Bm9 That leaves you, you'll have to do it Gmaj7 A I know that you've been wondering A/B Bm7 if I'm the same man inside Gmaj7 A Never tried to fool you A/B Bm7 'cause I've got nothing to hide E9 F#m7 Gmaj7 D/A A I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down F+5 Fm-5 E D/E 'Til I've seen paradise with my very own eyes Am /G G/F Em7 G /F F/Eb Dm7 F /Eb Eb/Db Cm7 Love owns us all, Time owns us all, Life owns us all Db Eb/Ab Ab/Db Eb/Ab Db Eb/Ab F G/C C/F G/C F But the world doesn't own me (the world doesn't own me) Am FM7 Dontcha follow me now Dm7 F/G G/A G G/F I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong Em7 Dm7 I have to go now F/G Bm9 Dm7 I'd rather live by a dream than live by a lie F/G Bm9 Yeah and that's why There ain't no cure for what I've got baby We just have to suffer I feel no pain, I can't complain, things could always be rougher But I picked up this banner and I just can't put it down, no I can't let the world die just 'cause no one would try Repeat chorus Dontcha follow me now Everybody's got to find his own place in the sun, everyone So shine on me now A/B I'd rather live by a dream then live by a lie A/G You can say what you will about me A/B talk is cheap and I don't mind A/G When you lay your life down in them grooves A/B you know you're bound to get scratched up sometime A/G A/B It's only just a song, only just a song, pay me no mind A/G A/B It's only just a song, only just a song, pay me no mind |:A/G A/B:| |:GM7 A Bm9:| I have to go now You've got to walk that road alone if you walk it at all Don't follow me now |:F/G I gave you all fair warning Bm9:| Now it's goodbye I gave you all fair warning Now it's goodbye And every once in a while why don't you think of me 'Cause it's a long, long time and a long way to go Can't you see the light shining in my eyes 'Cause it's just one victory 'Cause your dream goes on forever Don't you know that I've been trying to get my trip together |:Bb C Be a real man Bm7 Am7:| I got to be a real man 1, 2, 3, do it one more time Be a real man Everybody be a real man Go then, don't believe, and I don't know 'Cause I got to be a real man You can be a man, a real man I'll swim that river, climb that mountain You and me, we all gotta be, real men [tabbed by Victor Levi vlevi@start.com.au]