Great White Hope

Intro: 0:10
(Spoken)
E F#/E                   E F#/E
    Ladies and gentlemen,
 D/E
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention
E        F#/E
  Please.

                              E
In this corner, wearing white,
  F#/E    G/E
From the city of the big shoulders,
           E       F#/E
The number one contender in a ten-round exhibition
     E   F#/E          D/E
For your entertainment.

                  E
So when the bell sounds,
F#/E
  Prepare yourselves for the
 G     A | B!!
Main event.

Verse 1: 0:38
     E/B A/B E/B      A/B
When I  was  a young man
E/B       B   E/B    A/B        G/D
I had to kick and scratch and claw,
D                B   E/B A/B E/B    A/B
  Now it's like top gun      in the old West,
E/B     B    E/B   A/B    G/D
  Ev'rybody wants me to draw.
0:51
D    E  A/E  D/E A/E       D/E
  If I had known it would be like this
A/E           E    A/E   D/E     C/G
I might have given it a second thought,
G         B       E/B A/B  E/B       A/B
  But if someone had told me to give it up,
E/B     B     E/B   A/B           G/D
It's a line that I wouldn't have bought.

Chorus: 1:04
D          E F#/E
  Look at me,
          E     F#/E D/E
I'm the great white hope.
           E  F#/E
Can't you see,
         E       F#/E A/E
I'm up against the   ropes.
1:17
            E  F#/E
Don't you know
         E    F#/E D/E
It's so hard to   cope
          E   F#/E
When you feel
           G     A    B
Like the great white hope.

Instrumental: 1:31
D | B | D | B | D | B | D
C# | B/C#  - x4
1:56
Dm C:A#  - x3
C | C
Dm C:A#  - x3
C | D ->

Chorus: 2:12
D          E F#/E
  Look at me,
          E     F#/E D/E
I'm the great white hope.
           E  F#/E
Can't you see,
         E       F#/E A/E
I'm up against the   ropes.
2:25
            E  F#/E
Don't you know
         E    F#/E D/E
It's so hard to   cope
          E   F#/E
When you feel
           G     A    B
Like the great white hope.

Instrumental: 2:39
D | B | D | B | D | B | D | B!!

Verse 2: 2:54
     E/B    A/B  E/B  A/B
Now you've paid your money,
 E/B           B   E/B  A/B     G/D
You're sitting in your ringside seat,
D         B    E/B A/B     E/B      A/B
  And I know that some of you out there,
 E/B         B    E/B A/B      G/D
Might wanna see the champ get beat.
3:07
D    E  A/E  D/E A/E       D/E
  If I had known it would be like this
A/E           E    A/E   D/E     C/G
I might have given it a second thought,
G      B    E/B  A/B E/B    A/B
  But real life sure isn't like school,
  E/B         B  E/B       A/B           G/D
There's some lessons that just can't be taught.

Chorus: 3:20
D          E F#/E
  Look at me,
          E     F#/E D/E
I'm the great white hope.
           E  F#/E
Can't you see,
         E       F#/E A/E
I'm up against the   ropes.
3:33
            E  F#/E
Don't you know
         E    F#/E D/E
It's so hard to   cope
          E   F#/E
When you feel
           E     F#/E D/E
Like the great white hope.

Coda: 3:47
         E F#/E
Look at me,
     E       F#/E D/E
Up against the   ropes.
         E F#/E
Look at me,
         E    F#/E A/E
It's so hard to   cope.
4:00
         E F#/E
Look at me,
          E     F#/E D/E
I'm the great white hope.
         E F#/E
Look at me,
     E       F#/E A/E
Up against the   ropes.
4:13
         E F#/E
Look at me
         E    F#/E A/E
It's so hard to   cope...