A lot of folks don't like using a capo to get an "easier" key,
but this is the way Randy's rhythm guitar player plays it.
Check out a couple of videos and look close.
Capo on second fret
D D7 C D G
NC G C
Oper-ator please connect me with Nineteen-Eighty Two
D D7 C D G D
I need to make apologies for what I didn't do
G C Am
I sure do need to tell her that I thought the whole thing through
D D7 C D G
And now it's clear that she is what I should have held on to.
CHORUS
D G C G
They say hindsight's 20-20 but I'm nearly goin' blind
A7 D
From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine
G C Am
It's that same old lost love story it's sad but it's true
D D7 C D G
There was a time when she was mine in Nineteen-Eighty-Two.
D D7 C D G A
CHANGE TO: A
A D
Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp
E E7 D A E
One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man
A D Bm
Back into the wasted years of my living past
E E7 D E A
I need to tell her, now I know - how long my love will last.
CHORUS
E A D A
They say hindsight's 20-20 but I'm nearly goin' blind
B7 E
From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine
A D Bm
It's that same old lost love story it's sad but it's true
E E7 D E A
There was a time when she was mine in Nineteen-Eighty-Two.
TAG:
E E7 D E A
Losing my mind, going back in time - to Nineteen-Eighty Two.
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