I don't see a problem with asking for chords - as someone has already said, even the simplest tune can have variants, and those variants might be quite interesting.

What intrigues me is why people sometimes ask for lyrics which are readily available elsewhere. I can understand asking for lyrics for an obscure song, particularly if a thorough trawl around the web has failed to produce any, but to ask for lyrics when they can be easily obtained - or easily transcribed from a record - strikes me as laziness. In days gone by, we bought the record and played it over and over again, writing down a line at a time or as much as we could remember while it played. These days, with things like iTunes, that process is so much easier.

In my days as a budding guitarist, when music shops stocked the sheet music for the latest hits (!), I used to cycle down to Simmons' music shop in Lancaster, look through the rack for the song I needed the chords for - I found it hard to work them out in those days - memorise them, and then cycle home as fast as possible to write them down before I forgot them!

I remember reading somewhere that, when piper Billy Pigg had had a lesson from Tom Clough in his farmhouse, he used to cycle home as fast as people, humming the tune to himself so he could get home and practice it before he got it. It's good to be part of a tradition...