Song: "I Built a Friend"
By: Alec Benjamin
Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)
Tabbed by: Marko Sedlan
Follow Alec on twitter: @AlecBenjamin, he makes really good music :)
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Chord progression in the verses: A F#m D A E
Chord progression in the chorus: D A E
You can also play the chorus without the E chord in the second line :)
Intro
[A]
Verse 1
[A] [F#m]
I built a friend with three pieces of plastic and a pen,
[D]
I made him on the table in the den,
[A]
I gave him my old cellphone for a head,
[E]
For a head.
[A]
And we spent holidays in my house,
[F#m]
And we left presents in the stocking,
[D] [A]
And we bought bolts and things and strings and a new watch,
[E]
That's what he got.
Chorus
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
We knew we'd be friends forever.
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
we had so much fun.
Verse 2
[A]
Then I left for college in September
[F#m]
And we wept cause we can't be together
[D] [A]
So I kept pictures to remember my old friend,
[E]
My old friend.
[A]
Then I met this girl at graduation
[F#m]
And forget my oldest creation
[D]
And I guess I'll see him next vacation
[A] [E]
Send my best, I send my best
Chorus
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
We knew we'd be friends forever.
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
we had so much fun.
Verse 3
[A] [F#m]
I came home to find him on the table with a note
[D]
Scribbled out in pencil and he wrote
[A]
That he just wasn't stable all alone,
[E]
All alone.
[A] [F#m]
Next to him, an empty glass of water that he spilled
[D]
All over the body that I built,
[A]
It fizzled and it popped and then it killed,
[E]
And then it killed.
Chorus
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
We thought we'd be friends forever.
[D]
And we had so much fun together,
[A] [E]
we had so much fun.
[A]
I built a friend.
