Joey Cape – The Ramones are dead
(Bridge, 2008)
(Note: For easier play, use capo in 1st fret!)
A# Gm
I can listen to the records from my younger years
D# F D#7 F
Pacify my bitter ears and revive the dead dinosaurs.
A# Gm
Me and Jamo rode two buses round for Rockpile
D# F A# A#7
Sure to find a rarity and something to believe.
D# Gm D#
But I can't listen to them now without mourning a small town
F A# A#7
and the mom and pops I loved
D# Cm
Once were missionary men
D# F
We age into obscurity with them
A# (F)
The Ramones are dead
A# Gm
You could judge a band by the cover flipping through the bins
D#
Assured enough to take a spin
F D#7 F
The art and lyrics big enough to see and read
A#
Pull the record from its sleeve
Gm
Spear the cut hole, arm and seed
D# F A# A#7
Plunge the needle, shaking like a drug fiend
D# Gm
Now relevant again somehow
Cm
Reanimated sacred cow
F A# A#7
But it all seems different now
D# Cm
It's far too easy to find anything in demand
G# F
I'll say it once again
A#
The Ramones are dead.
