19 Somethin' Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
I saw [C]Star Wars at [G]least eight times
Had the [Am]Pac-Man pattern [G]memorized
And [F]I've seen the stuff they put inside
Strech [C]Armstrong, yeah
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Oh, I was [C]Roger Staubach in [G]my backyard
Had a [Am]shoebox full of [G]baseball cards
And a [F]couple of Evel Knievel scars
on my right [C]arm

[Pre-chorus 1]
[Am]Well, I was a kid [G]when Elvis died[Dm]
And my [F]mama cried

[Chorus 1]
[C]It was 1970-[G]something
[F]In the world tha[C]t I grew up in
[Am]Farrah Fawcett hair-[G]do days
[Dm]Bell- bott[Em]oms and eigh[F]t-track tape[G]s
[C]Lookin' back now I c[G]an see me
[F]And oh, man, did[C] I look cheesy
[Dm]But I wouldn't trade[Am] those days [F]for nothin'
[G]Oh, it was 1970-
[C]some[F]thing[F][C]

[Verse 2]
It was the [C]dawning of a [G]new decade
[Am]We got our first m[G]icrowave
And [F]Dad broke down
and finally shaved them old sideburns [C]off
I took the [C]stickers off of my [G]Rubik's Cube
Watched [Am]MTV all [G]afternoon
[F]My first love was Daisy Duke
in them cut-off [C]jeans

[Pre-chorus 2]
[Am]A space shuttle fell[G] out of the sky[Dm]
And the [F]whole world cried

[Chorus 2]
[C]It was 1980-[G]something
[F]In the world tha[C]t I grew up in
[Am]Skating rinks and blac[G]k Trans Ams
[Dm]Big hair[Em] and parac[F]hute pants[G]
[C]And lookin' back now I c[G]an see me
[F]And oh, man, did[C] I look cheesy
[Dm]I wouldn't trade[Am] those days [F]for nothin'
[G]Oh, it was 1980-
[C]some[F]thing[F][C]

[Bridge 1]
[F]Now I got a mortgage and an SUV[C]
But all this res[Dm]ponsibiliy
Makes [F]me wish (wish)
sometimes [G](sometimes)

[Chorus 3]
[C]It was 1980-[G]something
[F]In the world tha[C]t I grew up in
[Am]Skating rinks and blac[G]k Trans Ams
[Dm]Big hair[Em] and parac[F]hute pants[G]
[C]And lookin' back now I c[G]an see me
[F]And oh, man, did[C] I look cheesy
[Dm]I wouldn't trade[Am] those days [F]for nothin'
[G]Oh, it was 1980-

[Outro 1]
[C](some[F]thing)[F][C]
1970-[C]something[F]
[F]Aw, it was [C]19-something
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