Concerning The Lincoln And Douglas Debates chords

Intro: G chord structure variation. Play regular G, use 1st finger on the high e
string 2nd fret, then strum with e and b string open, then finish with pinky on b
string 3rd fret. Mess with it, you'll hear it when it's right.

[VERSE 1]
Le[G]t's go out tonight like it is last y[D7]ear, like eve[Em]rything's alright and it

is la[C]te last year, we'[Am]ll walk around this planet till we're h[C]ome, we'll both

get o[D7]ld, Let's[G] go out to the ball and see em a[D7]ll dressed up, I'll t[Em]ell you

that you're pretty,we'll get a[C]ll messed up, we[Am]'ll talk about the future,

we[C]'ll call ourselves the future and we'll m[D7]ean it.

It's been a restless several y[G]ears, full of ignorance and fe[D7]ars, I think

it's time for you to [Em]go,I think it's over and you kn[C]ow, you had a nice

impressive r[Am]un, you had your way,you had your f[C]un, I wasted hours with your

to[D7]ngue. It's like I never learned to l[G]ove, no one ever walked me th[D7]rough

it, no one taught me how to [Em]do it,no one told me that it's r[C]eal, and it's

not enough to f[Am]eel, it's not enough to pro[C]mise, it's not enough to t[D7]ry


[CHORUS]

[D]I know I'm not the only o[C]ne, [D]I just can't be the onl[C]y [Em]one,

[D] [C] [Em] [D] [G] (variation like Intro)
I know I'm not the only one who knows.

(The same chords progression throughout. Listen to song to pick up on the strumming rhythm.)

[VERSE 2]
I been looking up my future on the world wide web, looking up my history on the
world wide web, I read the transcripts of the Lincoln & Douglas Debates, It's like
all of the sudden there were Germans. Acres and acres of Germans. Hilarious
Germans, their english was pretty good! They came into this country, the spread it
with disease, they killed too many trees, maybe everyone agrees, you can't win
when you're old, you can't win when you're angry, you can't do everything you're
told. It's not a sign from above, it's not from anyone you love, it's not a bird
it's not a car, it's not afraid of what you are, it's not a place it's not a
plane, it's not a God, it's not a name, don't waste your money or your time.

[CHORUS]

[VERSE 3]
But you see there's no one left for you to turn to now, and you know there's
someone new you better learn from now, your mothers too afraid...your fathers not
alive anymore. I want it to be perfect, I want it to be right, I wanna fall in
love and its gotta be tonight. I dont care if its you, I don't care if it's her, I
don't care if it's both of you. It must be hard to be a mormon, I know they get a
lotta shit. I've thought a lot about it and i think we should admit...it'd be nice
to have 5 wives, it'd be nice to have 5 husbands, it'd be nice to live in Utah.
But you don't wanna fight, cause you don't wanna loose, and I don't have a choice,
so I don't wanna choose and I came to let you know, I came to let you go, I came
to tell you so. So let's go out tonight like it is last year, like it's winter
your nervous and it's late last year. I'll kiss you on the ferris wheel, I'll hold
you out over the ocean.

Baseline bridge using 5th and 6th string. (Listen to song or just skip it.) In the
middle of April, I was willing and able. I was under the table, in over my head, I
could never remember, if it was early December or later November when it started again.

[CHORUS]

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