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One Headlight

Key of G (default)
Key of F
Key of C
Key of D
Key of E
Key of A
[Intro]
 Gsus4 N.C.
 C G B7 Em G/D
 C G B7 Em G/D
 
 [Verse 1]
 C                      G
 So long ago, I don't remember when
        B7                          Em     G/D
 That's when they say I lost my only friend
           C                       G
 Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
      B7                           Em    G/D
 As I listened through the cemetery trees
 
 [Interlude]
 C G B7 Em G/D
 
 [Verse 2]
            C                     G               
 I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
     B7                      Em  G/D
 The long broken arm of human law
        C                              G
 Now it always seemed such a waste she always had a pretty face
   B7                               Em    G/D
 I wondered how she hung around this place
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 C C B7 B7
          Hey 
 
 [Chorus]
 C
    Come on try a little
 G
    Nothing is forever
 Am7                    D
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 C
    Me & Cinderella
 G
    Put it all together
    Am7              D   D7sus4
    We can drive it home
                 C
    With one headlight
 
 [Instrumental]
 (C) G B7 Em G/D
 
 [Verse 3]
               C
 She said it's cold
                   G
 It feels like Independence Day
       B7                          Em   G/D
 And I can't break away from this parade
             C
 But there's got to be an opening
 G
 Somewhere here in front of me
 B7                               Em    G/D
 Through this maze of ugliness and greed
                C
 And I seen the sun up ahead
        G
 At the county line bridge
        B7                                 Em   G/D
 Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
       C
 We'll run until she's out of breath
     G
 She ran until there's nothin' left
     B7                              Em    G/D
 She hit the end-it's just her window ledge
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 C C B7 B7
          Hey hey
 
 [Chorus]
 C
    Come on try a little
 G
    Nothing is forever
 Am7                    D
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 C
    Me & Cinderella
 G
    Put it all together
    Am7              D   D7sus4
    We can drive it home
                 C
    With one headlight
 
 [Instrumental]
 (C) G B7 Em G/D
 C G B7 Em G/D
 
 [Verse 4]
                    C
 Well this place is old
                      G
 It feels just like a beat up truck
            B7                            Em   G/D
 I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
                   C                                       
 Well it smells of cheap wine & cigarettes
      G
 This place is always such a mess
     B7                                Em   G/D
 Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
         C                              G
 I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
              B7                             Em   G/D
 Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
      C                            G           
 But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
   B7                                Em  G/D
 I think her death it must be killin' me
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 C C B7     B7
     Hey hey hey
 
 [Chorus]
 C
    Come on try a little
 G
    Nothing is forever
 Am7                    D
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 C
    Me & Cinderella
 G
    Put it all together
 Am7
    We can drive it home
 D     (D7sus4)  C G Am7 D
    With one headlight
 
 [Outro]
 C G Am7 D
 (repeat and fade)