Hip to be square
D - G
- D - G (2x)
D G - D G
1. I used to be a renegade, I
used to fool around,
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D G
but I
couldn't take the punishment, and had to settle down.
G
F
G D
Now I'm playing it real
straight, and, yes, I cut my hair,
Em F#m
you
might think I'm crazy, but I don't even care,
G - C
‘cause
I can tell what's going on:
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It's hip to be a square, it's hip to be a square
!
D G
- D G
2. I like my bands in business suits, I
watch them on TV,
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G D G
I'm working out most everyday and
watching what I eat.
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F G
D
They tell me that it's good
for me, but I don't even care,
Em F#m
I know that it's crazy, I know that it's nowhere,
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but
there is no denying that :
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It's hip to
be a square, it's hip to be a square !
D - G D - G
It's hip to be a square, it's hip to be a square
!
+ D - G - D - G (2x) +
D - G - D - G (2x)
+ D - G - D - G (2x)
D G
- D - G
3. It's
not too hard to figure out, you see it every day,
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D
G
and
those that were the farthest out have gone the other way.
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You see them on the freeway, it
don't look like a lot of fun,
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but
don't you try to fight it, an idea who's time has come.
Em
F#m
Don't tell me that I'm crazy, don't tell me I'm nowhere,
G - C
take
it from me :
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It's hip to be a square, it's hip to be a square
!
D - G D
- G
It's hip to be a square, so hip to be a square !
D G D G
+ Here, there, and
everywhere ! Hip, hip, so hip to be a square !
D G D - G
Here, there, and everywhere ! Hip, hip.
+ repeat the last 2 lines (3x)
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(orig. = capo 2nd) (Huey Lewis
& The News)