The music video shows the guitarist playing with the capo on the 7th fret.
Use light palm muting.
CAPO 7
[Hook A]
[A] [D]
Call my doctor, call my lawyer
[A] [Bm7]
Call my brother, call my priest
[A] [D]
There's paperwork to fill out
[G] [G]
Cause a dead man walks the streets
[A] [D]
Cause my sister has a best friend
[A] [Bm7]
That I've known since I was three
[A] [D]
And now I'm gon' get strangled
[G] [G]
Cause we tangled in the sheets
[Hook B]
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
My homies like "dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [G] [G]
My homies like "you a dead man, dead man walking"
Verse 1
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
Beautiful family friend is she
[A] [D] [G] [G]
Almost a decade older than me
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
And I've been gone for quite a while overseas, yeah...
[A] [D] [G] [G]
And she's been living up in Albany
[A] [D]
Then I had two shows I played up state
[A] [Bm7]
She came to show love and see my face
[A] [D]
Then we got drinks and we chilled like "hey"
[G] -
And then from there it was, you know it was like.
[Hook A]
[A] [D]
Call my doctor, call my lawyer
[A] [Bm7]
Call my brother, call my priest
[A] [D]
There's paperwork to fill out
[G] [G]
Cause a dead man walks the streets
[A] [D]
Cause my sister has a best friend
[A] [Bm7]
That I've known since I was three
[A] [D]
And now I'm gon' get strangled
[G] [G]
Cause we tangled in the sheets
[Hook B]
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
My homies like "dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [G] [G]
My homies like "you a dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
My homies like "dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [G] [G]
My homies like "you a dead man, dead man walking"
Verse 2
[A]
Now she's like "Damn!
[D] [A]
How did we let this happen, damn!
[Bm7] [A]
How did we end up in this bed then?"
[D]
I said "relax" and laughed like
[G] [G]
"This would be a pretty dope song."
[A] [D]
She's like "no, I swear to God I'll kill you
[A] [Bm7]
No, I really will just take your life
[A] [D]
No, don't even think about it
[G] [G]
But that would be a pretty dope song."
[A] [D]
So I came home and I called my friends
[A] [Bm7]
Then we got smacked and I wrote this jam
[A] [D]
I know for a fact that I'm gonna be dead
[G] -
It's over, My life is dead ass over.
[Hook A]
[A] [D]
Call my doctor, call my lawyer
[A] [Bm7]
Call my brother, call my priest
[A] [D]
There's paperwork to fill out
[G] [G]
Cause a dead man walks the streets
[A] [D]
Cause my sister has a best friend
[A] [Bm7]
That I've known since I was three
[A] [D]
And now I'm gon' get strangled
[G] [G]
Cause we tangled in the sheets
[Hook B]
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
My homies like "dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [G] [G]
My homies like "you a dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [A] [Bm7]
My homies like "dead man, dead man walking"
[A] [D] [G] [G]
My homies like "you a dead man, dead man walking"
