Login: Mr Maynard
4th of July
Album: Whatever
Capo 1 - Bb maps as A
Chords:
A2 X02200
G#m* 4X4440 <-- accent on the lower notes
F#m7 2X2220
C#m X46654
A2/C# X4X200
*** Intro.
G#m* A2
C#m G#m* A2
*** Verse 1.
G#m* C#m A2
Today's the fourth of July
G#m* C#m A2
another June has gone by
G#m* C#m D A2/C#
and when they light up our town I just think
(F#m7) G#m* A2
what a waste of gunpowder and sky
*** Verse 2.
G#m* C#m A2
I'm certain that I am alone
G#m* C#m A2
in harbouring thoughts of our home
G#m* C#m D A2/C#
it's one of my faults that I can't quell my past
(F#m7) G#m* A2
I ought to have gotten it gone
(F#m7) G#m* A2
I ought to have gotten it ...
*** Chorus.
B A E /F# /G# C#m F#m B A A2
Oh, baby, I wonder - if when you are older, someday
B A E /F# /G# C#m F#m
you'll wake up and say, 'My God, I should have told her'
B A A2
What would it take?
B A E /F# /G# C#m F#m B A2
But now here I am and the world's gotten colder
G#m* A2
and she's got the river down which I sold her.'
A2 | G#m* A2
*** Verse 3.
G#m* C#m A2
So that's today's memory lane
G#m* C#m A2
with all the pathos and pain
G#m* C#m D A2/C#
another chapter in a book where the chapters are
(F#m7) G#m* A2
endless and they're always the same
(F#m7) G#m* A2
a verse, then a verse, and refrain
*** Chorus.
Oh, baby, I wonder - if when you are older, someday B A E C#m F#m B A
you'll wake up and say, 'My God, I should have told her' B A E C#m F#m
What would it take? B A A2
But now here I am and the world's gotten colder B A E C#m F#m B A
and she's got the river down which I sold her.' A2 G#m* A2
*** Coda
A2 G#m* A2
Yeah, she's got the river down which I sold her.