Pretty Boy Floyd - Everybody Needs A Hero 
Originally from Big Bang Babies 


Intro:  F-C-D-Bb - F-C-D-Bb-C 


F                                          C 
We?ve all dreamed together of being kids forever  
D                                Bb 
Hanging on to all the people that we love like:  
F                          C 
Monroe and JFK, hoping they'll come back someday,  
D                                          Bb                       C 
Elvis, John and Jimmy, too, what?s the world gonna do?  


C                            F      C 
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,  
D                                                Bb 
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!  
C                             F                C 
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,  
D                         Bb       C 
To keep yourself alive.  


F                                  C 
We made believe that we could be on TV,  
D                         Bb 
A secret fantasy that we were Mr James Dean,  
F                                       C 
Then Alan Freed called it Rock n Roll and started it all,  
D                                                   Bb                         C 
The Beatles, Who, Kiss and Crue, What's the world gonna do?  



C                            F      C 
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,  
D                                                Bb 
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!  
C                             F                C 
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,  
D                         Bb       C 
To keep yourself alive.  

F                              C 
We're all living in, a world of AIDS and sin,  
D                                               Bb 
We're taken one by one in vain from what we all have done,  
F                               C 
Turn on the TV set, there's murder, rape, I do regret.  
D                                  Bb                   C 
Don't despair, we care. Trust in me I'll set you free.  


C                            F      C 
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,  
D                                                Bb 
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!  
C                             F                C 
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,  
D                         Bb       C 
To keep yourself alive.