Band: Harpo
Song: Movie star
Tune: Standard
The version that has the key changes between each verse is undoubtedly more true to the song.
But I think it sounds pretty good if you stay in the same key through the whole song, and it's
quite a bit easier to play
[INTRO]
D, F#m, G, A, D, F#m, G, A
[VERSE 1]
D F#m
You feel like Steve McQueen
G A
when your driving in your car
D F#m
and you think you look like James Bond
G A
when you're smoking your cigar
D
it's so bizarre
F#m
you think you are
G A
a new kind of James Dean
D F#m
but the only thing I've ever seen of you
G A
was a commercial spot on the screen
[CHORUS]
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie star
[INST]
D, F#m, G, A, D, F#m, G, A
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[VERSE 2]
D F#m
You should belong to the jet set
G A
fly your own private Lear jet
D F#m
but you worked in the grocery store
G A
everyday until you could afford to get away
D F#m
so you went to Sweden to meet
G A
Ingmar Bergman. He wasn't there
D
or he just didn't care
F#m
I think it's time for you my friend
G A
to stop pretending that you are a
[CHORUS]
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie star
[INST]
D, F#m, G, A, D, F#m, G, A
[VERSE 3]
D F#m
Frozen hero
G A
your words are zero
D F#m
and your dreams have vanished into dark
G
and long ago
A
but you don't want to know
[CHORUS]
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie
D F#m
Movie star, Movie star
G A
you think you are a movie star
