xMiles Davis & The Cool
The Gaslight Anthem
Standard Tuning
A Bm D
Look Miles Davis, I've been swayed by the cool.
A Bm
There's just something about the summertime.
D
There's just something about the moon.
A Bm D E
So I'll lay a kiss on this storm, toss it upside your window, by the roof.
A Bm D E
Before you change your mind, Miles, bring in the cool
Interlude
A Bm D
A Bm E
A
Now honey, put on your red dress.
Bm D
And you diamond soul shoes.
A
Climb on down from that window.
Bm D
Climb on out of your room.
A Bm D E
Cause I've never had a good time and I've always had the blues.
A Bm D E
I always heard that you always kind of wandered, Miles, strike up the Cool.
A E
Don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
My have the years of our youth passed on.
A E
Don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
I'll leave the front light on.
A E
The night is our own,
F# D
Don’t wait too long.
A Bm D
Poor mister pitiful, I can't turn you loose.
A Bm D
You move like a dream I had, woke up sweating in my room.
A Bm D
Your Mama's got plans, your daddy's aim is true.
A Bm
She never understood that it ain't no good.
D
Papa never heard the cool.
A Bm D E
So now I got out my map and found me a storm.
A Bm
With a flick of the wrist and the turn of the key.
D E
You'll just fall in my arms.
A E
Don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
My have the years of our youth passed on.
A E
Don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
I'll leave the front light on.
A E
The night is our own.
F# D
You don't wait too long.
Bridge (Not sure if this is right)
C#m B
So why don't you sing to me on this long drive home?
F# G#
Let the sound of your voice sway sweet and slow.
E B
As we go down, down, down.
C# G#
From our youth to the ground.
C#m D#m
We might always be blue.
Jackson!
Bass Interlude x4
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A E
So don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
My have the years of our youth passed on.
A E
Don't wait too long to come home.
F# D
I will leave the front light on.
[2x]
A
As we go down, down, down. X3
From our youth to the ground.
A
Down, down, down, down, down.
