Artist: John Mayer
Song: 83
Tabbed by Robin Young
[Chords]
Asus2: X02200
A9: X02424
Am7: X02010
Am7/4: X05530
B: X24442
Bm: X24432
C: X32010
C7: X32000
C#m: X46654
D: XX0232
D7: XX0222
D9: X54555
E7sus4: 020200
Em9: 0X403X
F#7: 242322
[Intro]
A9 – Em9 (2x)
[Verse 1]
A9
I’ve these dreams I’m walking home
Em9
Home when it used to be
A9
And ev-ery-thing is as it was
Em9
Frozen in front of me
A9
Here I stand, six feet small
Em9
Ro-man-ticizing years ago
A9
But it’s a bit-ter-sweet feeling
Em9
Hearing “Wrapped Around Your Finger” on the radio
[Pre-Chorus]
D7 A9
And these days
D7 A9
I wish I was six again
D7 A9
Oh, make me a red cape
D7 A9
I wanna be Su-perman
[Chorus]
Oh, if only my life
Am7/4 D9 Am7/4 D9
Was more like nine-teen eighty-three
Am7/4
All these things would be more
D9 Am7/4
Like they were at the start of me
C D A9
Had it made in eighty-three
Em9
[Verse 2]
A9
Think-ing ‘bout my brother Ben
Em9
I miss him every day
A9
He looks just like his brother John
Em9
But on an eighteen-month delay
A9
Here I stand, six feet small
Em9
And smiling ‘cause I’m scared as hell
A9 (tacet)
Kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie
Em9 (tacet)
Where the actors’ names have changed
Oh, well
[Pre-Chorus]
D7 A9
Well, these days
D7 A9
I wish I was six again
D7 A9
Oh, make me a red cape
D7 A9
I wanna be Su-perman
[Chorus]
Oh, if only my life
Am7/4 D9 Am7/4 D9
Was more like nine-teen eighty-three
Am7/4
All these things would be more
D9 Am7/4 D9
Like they were at the start of me
Am7/4 D9 Am7/4 D9
If my life was more like nineteen eighty-three
Am7
I’d plot a course to the source
D9 Am7 D9
Of the purest little part of me
[Verse 3]
C#m F#7 C#m
And most my memories have escaped me
F#7
Or confused themselves with dreams
B Bm E7sus4 E7
If hea-ven’s all we want it to be
Send your prayers to me
C7
Care of nineteen eighty-three
D9 – Asus2- Am7
D9 – Am7 – D9
Am7 D9
You can paint that house a rainbow of colors
Am7 D9 Am7
Rip out the floorboards, replace the shutters, but
D9 Am7 D9
That’s my plastic in the dirt
[Outro]
Am7 D9
Whatever happened to my
Whatever happened to my
Am7 D9
Whatever happened to my lunchbox?
Am7 D9
When came the day
Am7 D9
That it got thrown a-way
Am7
And don’t you think I should have had
D9 Am7 D9
Some say in that deci-sion?
Am7 D9
If only my life
Am7 D9
If only my life
If only my life…
(repeat & fade)
