The White Stripes - Big Three Killed My Baby: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Big Three Killed My Baby" on your guitar with our chord guide. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

Chorus:
G              F
The Big Three killed my baby
G               F
No money in my hand again
G              F
The Big Three killed my baby
G                F
Nobody's coming home again

G
Their ideas make me wanna spit
F
A hundred dollars goes down the pit
G
Thirty-thousand wheels are rollin'
F
And my stick shift hands are swollen
G
Everything involved is shady
F                        G
The Big Three killed my baby!
F           G  F
Yeah, yeah yeah!

Chorus

Why don't you take the day off and try to repair
A billion others don't seem to care
Better ideas are stuck in the mud
The motor's runnin' on Tucker's` blood
Don't let 'em tell you the future's electric
	
A#
'Cause gasoline's not measured in metric
B
Thirty-thousand wheels are spinnin'
C
And oil company faces are grinnin'
C#
Now my hands are turnin' red
D                           G
And I found out my baby is dead!
F            G   F
Yeah, yeah yeah!

Chorus

Well I've said it now, nothing's changed
People are burnin' for pocket change
And creative minds are lazy
And the Big Three killed baby!
Yeah yeah yeah!

G                 F
And my baby's my common sense
G                        F
So don't feed me planned obsolescence
G                  F
Yeah my baby's my common sense
G                        F
So don't feed me planned obsolescence (yeah!)
G                                F F# G
I'm about to have another blow-up!
G                                F F# G
I'm about to have another blow-up!


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A#

Guitar chord A#

C

Guitar chord C

C#

Guitar chord C#

D

Guitar chord D

F

Guitar chord F

F#

Guitar chord F#

G

Guitar chord G

B

Guitar chord B

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Big Three Killed My Baby" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Big Three Killed My Baby" by The White Stripes.

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