E7 -x7675x
B7 -7x787x
A -xx7655 (or full barre)
F# -244322
C#m -x46654
He walks his bass line on the 1 and 3 and chucks on the 2 and 4.
Kind of like a boom-chuck strum.
[Intro]
E7 B7 E7 A B7 E7
[Verse 1]
E7 B7
When I was a rover, met a four leaf clover, she was Irish as the day was long
E7 A
I thought she'd give it to me maybe, now she's married with a baby
B7 E7
I've been dodging bullets all along
E7 B7
Man, we would creep but never lost no sleep, I would cut cat nip into the weed,
E7 A B7 E7
Nobody was the wiser but they could have been higher and it meant more money for me
[Chorus]
A E7 B7
Here's to not getting caught, doctor it's only a graze
E7 A B7 E7 F#
Spinning like a top, running like a villain and the years are going by like days,
A B7 E7 F# A B7 E7
Years are going by like days. Days, years are going by like days.
[Verse 2]
E7 B7
School bus, I got on it, I was nearly catatonic, I couldn't speak a goddamn word
E7 A B E7
Homeroom class, forge a hall pass and we would get higher than the birds
B7
My foolish nature, the chase for the paper, I would deal in the broad daylight
E7 N.C. E7
Eighteen years old, head full of psilocybin and howling at the moon all night
[Chorus]
A E7 B7
Here's to not getting caught, well doctor it's only a graze
E7 A B7 E7 F#
Spinning like a top, running like a villain and the years are going by like days,
A B7 E7 F# A B7 E7
Years are going by like days. Days, years are going by like days.
[Bridge]
A E7 B7
Small town shadows, clean out of sight, nothing to fear but the coming of that morning light
A E7 C#m A B7 E7
Ducking and dodging and diving for that rent, if it couldn't be broken, it could be bent
[Instrumental]
C#m F# A B7 E7 B7
[Verse 3]
E7 B7
Washing dishes, stealing kisses, making our deals on the side
E7 A B E7
She said are you ready honey, we got gas money, going on a real long ride
B7
Lying like a rug, prescription drugs, old guitars, new girlfriends
E7 A B7 E7
Everybody shunned me, I just thought that it was funny and I'd do it all over again
[Chorus]
A E7 B7
Here's to never getting caught, well doctor it's only a graze
E7 A B7 E7
Spinning like a top, running like a villain and the years are going by like days
E7 A B7 E7 F#
Spinning like a top, running like a villain and the years are going by like days
A B7 E7 F# A B7 E7
Years are going by like days. Days, years are going by like days.
