Ironic Guitar Tab

Jagged Little Pill Tabs:

Ironic by Alanis Morisette
Capo -- 4th fret
D  G   D              Em
An old man  turned ninety-eight
D   G      D            Em
He won the lottery and died the next day
D     G          D        Em
It´s a black fly in your  Chardonnay
D         G          D           Em
It´s a death row pardon two minutes too late
D    G  D               Em
Isn´t it ironic ... don´t you think
Chorus:
D   G         D       Em
It´s like rain on your wedding day
D  G             D       Em
It´s a free ride when you´ve already paid
D  G            D           Em
It´s the good advice that you just didn´t take
F          C                  D
Who would´ve thought ... it figures
D        G       D         Em
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
D          G            D              Em
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
D          G       D         Em
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
D             G
And as the plane crashed down he thought
D                  Em
" Well isn´t this nice ... "
D    G  D               Em
And isn´t it ironic ... don´t you think
Chorus:
D   G         D       Em
It´s like rain on your wedding day
D  G             D       Em
It´s a free ride when you´ve already paid
D  G            D           Em
It´s the good advice that you just didn´t take
F          C                  D
Who would´ve thought ... it figures
Cmaj7                  D
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Cmaj7                       D
When you think everything´s okay and everything´s going right
Cmaj7                  D
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
Cmaj7
You think everything´s gone wrong and everything blows up
D
In your face
D       G              D         Em
A traffic jam when you´re  already late
D       G            D        Em
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
D            G                  D         Em
It´s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
D        G
It´s meeting the man of my dreams
D         Em
And then meeting his beautiful wife
D    G  D               Em
And isn´t it ironic ... don´t you think
D     G                    D        Em
A little too ironic ... and yeah I really do think ...
Chorus:
D   G         D       Em
It´s like rain on your wedding day
D  G             D       Em
It´s a free ride when you´ve already paid
D  G            D           Em
It´s the good advice that you just didn´t take
F          C                  D
Who would´ve thought ... it figures
Cmaj7                   D
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Cmaj7                              D         Cmaj7
Life has a funny, funny way --- of helping you out
Helping you out

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/a/alanis_morissette/345136.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture THE AMAZING JOE Wanna Be	#1 by THE AMAZING JOE KOOL!! at Sep 28, 2007 at 7:03 AM EST
	Yeah, I hate when that happens, everyone should have an emergency supply of knives.

No Picture Chris Rhythm Player	#2 by Chris Marcoux at Sep 28, 2007 at 3:22 PM EST
	dahm this songs the greatest i remember when it first came out i couldnt stop singin it......shit she the best

No Picture Raimundo Average	#3 by Raimundo Mchoo at Sep 30, 2007 at 3:01 AM EST
	well i was never a big fan of alanis (i like rock) but since i was little this has always been kind of like my theme song, and i dont care if its actually ironic or not... i just read yalls comments and its really helping me to write this gayass english poem, man poetry comes to me in such weird ways well thanx gotta write 1 2 Next

No Picture DrUnk Idi0t #1 Average	#4 by DrUnk Idi0t #1 at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:29 AM EST
	I love this song, it reminds me of my male friend who I secretly love, not because anything is ironic between us or stuff like that, just 'cause he asked me to sing it to him once and then he said I had a nice voice.. =)

No Picture Kyle Average	#5 by Kyle Lester at Oct 1, 2007 at 8:22 AM EST
	I never liked this song anyway ... and i think its a black fly IN MY chardonet but who knows i dont care enough to argue

No Picture Justin Average	#6 by Justin Ruiz at Oct 1, 2007 at 4:56 PM EST
	i just saw her sing it live last weekend, was amazing, & she changed 'his beautiful wife' to 'his beautiful husband' funny.

No Picture The Mango Kid Rhythm Player	#7 by The Mango Kid at Oct 2, 2007 at 2:21 AM EST
	i found a site that is dedicated entirely to proving the title of this song to be irrelevant...something about everything not really being ironic. it's great to have people in the world that waste their lives preaching about stuff when no one really cares...

No Picture Scott Average	#8 by Scott Bramlett at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:18 AM EST
	i hate it when all my knives are in the dishwasher and the only thing in my drawer is spoons and forks.

No Picture Mike Average	#9 by Mike Murphy at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:08 PM EST
	Here are some things that would be ironic: 1) A diabetic needing insulin gets run over by a delivery truck carrying insulin. 2) A fisherman who buys the rod and the boat the most bells and whistles while a kid in a stick and piece of fishing line snags the biggest walleye in the lake. 3) After three years of trying to get a good wheat yield off his property, some poor farmer finally has a very promising one. He wakes up one morning to find thirty acres of his best field has been turned into a crop circle. 4) The fact that I comment on irony and I have no idea what the hell it really is. 5) The fact that everybody who says this isn't an ironic song really find outs that Alanis wrote it to make fun of us. Thank you for your time and attention.