There are three choruses, each of them labeled.
After the last verse you play chorus 1, then
there is an instrumental, followed by chorus 3
to end the song. All chorus chords are the same.
Enjoy!
Cadd9 D
There ain’t a thing in the world to take me back
G G/F# Em7
like a dark haired girl in a Cadillac
Cadd9 D G
The main street of an old forgotten town
And sunlight shines and fine white lines
on weathered stores with open signs
They may as well just close em down
(Chorus 1)
Cadd9 G
And you look like 1968
D G
or was it 69
Cadd9 G
When I heard you caught a bullet
D
well I guess you’re doin fine
Cadd9 G
And you speak of a revolution
D G
like it’s someplace that you’ve been
Cadd9 G
You’ve been a long time gone
D G
good to see ya, my old friend
Oh and now that sign has gone away
replaced instead by silver age
and moonlight fallin on the avenue
oh and I could sleep if you would drive
it just can’t keep my mind alive
and you’ve got nothing better else to do
(Chorus 2)
and we’ve all been lookin for you
like a hobo you walk in
well how the mighty all have fallen
how the holy all have sinned
is that the clatterin of sabers
or the cool September wind
well you’ve been a long time gone
good to see you my old friend
and there’s just two times a day like this
ya find that sort of blissfulness
the sun it sets and rises in the morn
and with shakin hands, I rub my eyes
free of all my alibis
Just shakin like the day that I was born
(chorus 1)
(Chorus 3)
And when the rounds were fired that april
you were on the balcony
when ten thousand tear drops hit the ground
in memphis Tennessee
you were a prideful rebel yell
among a million marchin men
well you’ve been a long time gone
good to see you my old friend
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