New Years Eve Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C – G – C - G

CThe door was open I was seething G

CYour mother burst in it was freezing F

CShe said it looks like it’s trying to raiGn C

CI was lost I felt sea sick G

CYou convinced me that he’d left F

CYou said keep talking but don’t use any names G C

FI scolded your driver and your brother

 We are old enough to know how long you’ve been hooked C

FAnd we’ve all been through the war

And each time you score

 Someone gets hauled and handcuffed and booked C G

CIt felt like four in the morning G

CWhat sounded like fire works F

CTurned out to be just what it waGs C

CThe stars looked like diamonds G

CThen came the sirens F

CAnd everyone started to cGuss C

FAll the noise was disturbing

And I couldn’t find Irving

 It was like two stations on at the same time C

FAnd then I hid your car keys

And I made black coffee

 And I dumped out the rest of the rum C G

CNick and Socorro broke up G

CAnd Candice wouldn’t shut up F

CFin he recorded theG whole thing C

CRay he said damn you G

CAnd someone broke my camera F

CAnd it was New Years

GAnd we all started to sing C

FShould auld acquaintance beC forgot and never bGrought to mind C F

FShould auld acquaintance be Cforgot for the sakeG of auld lanAmg syne F C

FI was leaving in the morning with Charles for Las Vegas

 And I didn’t plan to come back C

FI had only a few things

Two hundred dollars

 And my records in a brown paper sack C G

CI ran out on Sheila G

CEverything’s in storage F

CCalvin’s right I should go back to dGriving truck C

FShould auld acquaintance beC forgot and never bGrought to mind C F

FShould auld acquaintance be Cforgot for the sakeG of auld lanAmg syne F C