Eighteen Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]It[C][G][D][G][D]
[G]was a summer night
[C]I took off in my old man's car
[G]I rolled the windows right on d[D]own
[G]I cranked up the radio
[C]And chased the meteors
[G]On a dirt road out of [D]town

[Verse 2]
To[C]night
There's a [G]bonfire in Walker's field
To[C]night
In the [G]firelight our dreams revealed
To[C]night
You can [G]chase away your
high school years
[Am]Shadows dancing wildly at the [C]scene
But I [Am]never knew right then
Just what [C]it means
To be [G]eighteen
To be eighteen
[D][G][D]

[Verse 3]
[G]The voice of Jimmy Aberdeen
[C]Still washes over me
[G]He had a laugh like a thunder clo[D]ud
[G]He was holding blue spray pai[C]nt
Jimmy was no saint
[G]But he could always draw a c[D]rowd

[Verse 4]
That [C]night
We climbed the [G]wa ter tower
in Walker's field
That [C]night
Above the [G]lights of town
our fates were sealed
That [C]night
Jimmy [G]fell down through the darkness

[Verse 5]
An [Am]ambulance brought
silence to [C]the scene

[Verse 6]
And [Am]carried off the life
And broken [C]dreams
[G]Of Jimmy Aberdeen

[Interlude 1]
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[C]
[G][C][Am][C]
[Am][C][G][C][G]

[Verse 7]
Now the years have [C]passed
The cabbie taps [G]the glass
We're outside
My reunion [D]hall
[G]He leaves me to the night
[C]I count the sat[G]ellites
I see the tower
[D]Looming tallâ?¦

[Verse 8]
[C]Tonight
[G]I'm taking on my memory
To[C]night
I climbed the [G]wa ter tower for all to see
[C]To night

[Verse 9]
[G]I painted steel
With cobalt blue
[Am]Spelling out
My graduation [C]year
Above the [Am]highway
That took me out of [C]here

[Verse 10]
And I [Am]fi nally think
I really [C]know
What it means
To be [G]eighteen
[C]Eig[G]hteen[D]

[Outro 1]
Eighteen
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