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Song title:      The Ascent of Stan
Original Album:  Rockin' The Suburbs

Words and Music by Ben Folds
Copyright © 2001 Epic Records
Published by Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 3. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
Em  022000    D      xx0232
B7  x21202    A7/C#  x42020
Eb  xx5343    C      x32010


[play: 4/4| Em | B7 | D | A7/C# |]  [x2]

[play: 4/4| C |]



VERSE1:
Chords:
G     320003    D   xx0232
D/F#  2x023x    C   x32010
C/E   032010    D7  xx0212
D6    xx0202    Am7 x02010


G        D/F#          C/E        D6   D
  Pangs,   of silence,   from the room upstairs.

C           G
  How's the view there?

G                          D7      D
  Do you read what they're saying about you?


G             D7/F#      C/E         D6      D
  That you're no    fun,   since the war was won.

C              G
  In fact, you have become,

G            D7                   Am7      C
  All of the things you've always run away from.



CHORUS1:
Chords:
Em    022000    D     xx0232
B7    x21202    A/C#  x4222x


            | Em  | B7            | D  | A/C#
The ascent of Stan; textbook hippie man.

| Em | B7               | D  | A/C#
       Get rest while you can.



VERSE2:
G     320003    D   xx0232
D/F#  2x023x    C   x32010
C/E   032010    D7  xx0212
D6    xx0202    Am7 x02010


G                D/F#       C/E       D6      D
  So where'd the years go?    All the time we had?

C       G       | %          D7      D
  Being poor was, not such a drag in hindsight.


G         D7/F#   C/E      D6          C    G
  And you wonder, why your father was, so resigned.

G               D7         Am7   C
  Now you don't wonder, anymore...



CHORUS2:
Chords:
Em    022000    D     xx0232    C  x32010
B7    x21202    A/C#  x4222x


            | Em  | B7            | D  | A/C#
The ascent of Stan; textbook hippie man.

| Em | B7            | D  | A/C#             | C 
       Textbook hippie man, get rest while you can.



BRIDGE:
Chords:
C  x32010    G  320003
D7 xx0212    G7 320001


| C D7  | G                     | C
    Sta___an, once you wanted revolution,

| C D7  | G                     | C
    Sta___an, now you're the institution.

| C D7  | G                         | C   D7 | G7
    Sta___an, how's it feel to be the man?

                      N.C.
It's no fun to be the man.



INTERLUDE:
Chords:
Em    022000    C    x32010    Bsus4  x24454
B7    x21202    G    320003    B      x24442
D     xx0232    F#7  242322
A/C#  x4222x    F#   244322


[play: 4/4| Em | B7 | D | A/C# |

          | C | G | F#7 | F# | Bsus4 | B |]


Chords:
G     320003    C     x32010
D/F#  2x023x    G/B   x20003
C/E   032010    D7    xx0212
D6    xx0202    Am7   x02010


| G    D/F#    | C/E     D6     | C       G
    La   da da,    da da da da da   da da da.

| G/B        D7         | Am7 | % | C | % 
    La da da da da da da, la...

    Am7                 C
And now watch it all go down.



CHORUS3:
Chords:
Em    022000    A/C#  x4222x
B7    x21202    C  x32010
D     xx0232


            | Em  | B7            | D  | A/C#
The ascent of Stan, textbook hippie man.

| Em  | B7            | D
  Stan, textbook hippie man.

| A/C#             | C
  Get rest while you can.



OUTRO:
Play as for BRIDGE.

Chords:
C  x32010    G  320003
D7 xx0212    G7 320001


| D7  | G                     | C
  Sta___an, once you wanted revolution,

| D7  | G                     | C
  Sta___an, now you're the institution.

| D7  | G                         | C  | D7
  Sta___an, how's it feel to be the man?

| G
    It's no fun to be the man.