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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]
 Csus4 N.C.
 F C E7 Am C/G
 F C E7 Am C/G
 
 [Verse 1]
 F                      C
 So long ago, I don't remember when
        E7                          Am     C/G
 That's when they say I lost my only friend
           F                       C
 Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
      E7                           Am    C/G
 As I listened through the cemetery trees
 
 [Interlude]
 F C E7 Am C/G
 
 [Verse 2]
            F                     C               
 I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
     E7                      Am  C/G
 The long broken arm of human law
        F                              C
 Now it always seemed such a waste she always had a pretty face
   E7                               Am    C/G
 I wondered how she hung around this place
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 F F E7 E7
          Hey 
 
 [Chorus]
 F
    Come on try a little
 C
    Nothing is forever
 Dm7                    G
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 F
    Me & Cinderella
 C
    Put it all together
    Dm7              G   G7sus4
    We can drive it home
                 F
    With one headlight
 
 [Instrumental]
 (F) C E7 Am C/G
 
 [Verse 3]
               F
 She said it's cold
                   C
 It feels like Independence Day
       E7                          Am   C/G
 And I can't break away from this parade
             F
 But there's got to be an opening
 C
 Somewhere here in front of me
 E7                               Am    C/G
 Through this maze of ugliness and greed
                F
 And I seen the sun up ahead
        C
 At the county line bridge
        E7                                 Am   C/G
 Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
       F
 We'll run until she's out of breath
     C
 She ran until there's nothin' left
     E7                              Am    C/G
 She hit the end-it's just her window ledge
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 F F E7 E7
          Hey hey
 
 [Chorus]
 F
    Come on try a little
 C
    Nothing is forever
 Dm7                    G
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 F
    Me & Cinderella
 C
    Put it all together
    Dm7              G   G7sus4
    We can drive it home
                 F
    With one headlight
 
 [Instrumental]
 (F) C E7 Am C/G
 F C E7 Am C/G
 
 [Verse 4]
                    F
 Well this place is old
                      C
 It feels just like a beat up truck
            E7                            Am   C/G
 I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
                   F                                       
 Well it smells of cheap wine & cigarettes
      C
 This place is always such a mess
     E7                                Am   C/G
 Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
         F                              C
 I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
              E7                             Am   C/G
 Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
      F                            C           
 But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
   E7                                Am  C/G
 I think her death it must be killin' me
 
 [Pre-Chorus]      
 F F E7     E7
     Hey hey hey
 
 [Chorus]
 F
    Come on try a little
 C
    Nothing is forever
 Dm7                    G
    Got to be something better than
 
    In the middle
 F
    Me & Cinderella
 C
    Put it all together
 Dm7
    We can drive it home
 G     (G7sus4)  F C Dm7 G
    With one headlight
 
 [Outro]
 F C Dm7 G
 (repeat and fade)