Better Times Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

It eventually just builds up to playing the chords

G G F C

GIt was April when we got the word

FBetter times were on tCheir way they said

GAnd me and the boys, we got drunk that night

FJust a few soldiers wiCth whisky and tobacco

GPlayin’ jack black round the fire

FAnd shooting in the sCtars

GIt was 1971

FAnd we wCere going home

Instrumental

Rest of the Lyrics:

Things were a little different when I got back

You were with another man, and I was no war hero

But I remember how that never seemed to stop you and me

And I remember how good you looked working down at that bar

How those jeans seemed to be made just for you

Man me and the boys could watch you for hours

But honey I’m sorry about that night

When my hands were like monkeys through the jungle

I know you don’t believe me when I tell ya

But I never meant to hurt you

I just thought better times were on their way

I laid off the booze for a while after I got arrested

You got married, and I picked up my saxophone again

I thgout I might like to emet a pretty young jazz singer

In a black dress and red shoes, and blue eyes

So I got back out there and hit every blue note from A to Z

Better times are on their way!

Better times were on their way

And sometimes I still think about Marty and Bill

And all the boys that never made it out of that country

And all the lies that I sued to tell ‘em

I said ‘your gonna make it throught!’

I said ‘your wives and your babies gonna be waitin for you’

I said ‘you’re gonna be okay’

I said ‘better times were on their way’

Better times were on their way

I said ‘better times were on their way’

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