Something Like That
Capo: 3rd Fret
(chord fingerings shown are not actual chord. Derrrrrr)
[INTRO]
D C G Bm
D C G A
C
It was DLabor Day weekend I was seventeen
G
I bought a Coke and some gasoline
D C G A
And I drove out to the county fair
D C
When I saw her for the first time
G
She was standing there in the ticket line
D C G A
And it all started right then and there
G A
Oh a sailor sky made a perfect sunset
Bm A
And that’s a day I’ll never forget
[CHORUS]
D A
I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt
G A
She was killin' me in that mini-skirt
D A Bm A G
Skippin’ rocks on the river by the railroad tracks
A D A
She had a suntan line and red lipstick
Em F#m G A
I worked so hard for that first kiss and a
Bm A G A
Heart don't forget something like that
[INSTRUMENTAL]D C G Bm A
D C
Well it was five years later on a southbound plane
G
I was headin’ down to New Orleans
D C G A
To meet some friends of mine for Mardi Gras
D C
When I heard a voice from the past
G
Comin’ from a few rows back
D C G A
And when I looked I couldn’t believe just what I saw
G A
She said, "I bet you don’t remember me"
Bm A
And I said, "Only ev’ry other memory"
[CHORUS #2]
D A
I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt
G A
You were killin' me in that mini-skirt
D A Bm A G
Skippin’ rocks on the river by the railroad tracks
A D A
You had a suntan line and red lipstick
Em F#m G A
I worked so hard for that first kiss and a
Bm A G A
Heart don't forget something like that
[INSTRUMENTAL](x2)
[BRIDGE]
Em D
Like an old photograph time can make a feeling fade
G A
But the mem’ry of the first love never fades away
[CHORUS #3]
D A
I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt
G A
You were killin' me in that mini-skirt
D A Bm A G
Skippin’ rocks on the river by the railroad tracks
A D A
She had a suntan line and red lipstick
Em F#m G A
I worked so hard for that first kiss and a
Bm A G
Heart don’t forget
Bm A G
No, a heart don’t forget
Bm A G A D C
I said, a heart don’t forget something like that
G Oh, not Bmsomething like Athat
[OUTRO:]
D C G A D
