People Get Old Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[G]Someone said,
"Youth [C]is wasted [G]on the [Am]young"
I spilled [G]every last drop of time [C]that
sum[G]mer in [Am]the sun
My [C]daddy had a [G]Timex watch
[D]Cigarette in his hand
and a mouth[Em]ful of scotch
Spin[G]nin' me around like a [C]a
a tilt-a-whirl [G]on [Am]his arm
Houses need [C]paint, winters bring

[Verse 2]
[G]snow
Kids, come on [Am]in before your
supper gets [G]cold
Collection [C]plates and daddy's bill[G]fold
And that's [Am]how it goes
You live long [D]enough,
[G]people get old
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[Verse 3]
I [G]sat up right [C]beside him in the
[G]cabin of that [Am]truck
Goin' thirty [G]miles-an-hour down down down a
[C]side road [G]talkin' 'bout the [Am]fish we caught
And [C]I'm older now than he was [G]then
If I could [D]go back in time,
I [Em]would in a second
To his [G]beat-up blue blue jeans and a
[C]t-shirt with with the [G]sleeves [Am]cut off

[Verse 4]
Houses need [C]paint, winters bring [G]snow
Kids growin' [Am]up and seekin'
out the [G]window
Hittin' every [C]small-town dirt dirt road
[G]And that's how it [Am]goes
You live long [D]enough and people
get [C]old[G][Am]
[G]Yeah, people get old[C][G][Am]

[Verse 5]
[C]Daddy keeps busy [G]in the aftenoons
play[Am]in' cards by himsel[G]f
And he [C]shouldn't be shovelin' that [G]first snow,
but [Am]you know he won't take the help
Full [C]of pride and love,
he don't [G]say too much but [Am]hell, he never [G]did
And [C]you still think he's [G]forty-five and and
[Am]he still thinks that you're a kid

[Verse 6]
One day [G]you'll find yourself say
[C]in' the thing[G]s t[Am]hat he said
You'll be walk[G]in' down the hallway,
[C]turnin' [G]off [Am]every light switch
When [C]you twirl your kids in your [G]arms
Before you [D]know it,
it won't take too [Em]long
They'll be [G]runnin' off makin'
a life [C]just [G]like [Am]you did

[Verse 7]
Houses need [C]paint,
winters bring [G]snow
Nothin' says [Am]"love"
like a band of [G]gold
Babies grow [C]up and houses get [G]sold
And that's how it [Am]goes
Time [C]is a thief, pain is a gift
[G]The past is the past,[Am]
it is what it [G]is
Every [C]line on your face tells a
[G]story somebody [Am]knows
That's just [D]how it goes
You live [Em]long enough [Am]and the people [D]you love

[Outro 1]
get old
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