JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP 1980

INTRO

strum all strings up and down

B (x0220x)

E/B (x0020x)

VERSE 

B

Well our hearts beat like thunder

E/B

I don’t know why they don't explode

B

You got your hands in my back pockets

E/B

And Sam Cooke’s singin’ on the radio

PRE-CHORUS:

G#m E

You say that I’m the boy

F#

Who can make it all come true

G#m E

Well I’m telling’ ya that I don’t know

F#

If I know what to do

CHORUS:

 B G#m

You say that’s all right, hold tight

E F#

Well I don’t even know if I’m doin’ this right

B G#m

Well alright, hold tight

E F#

We could stay out all day, we could run around all night

B G#m

Well all night, all night

E

Well it’s time to go home

E  (play VERSE RIFF)

And I aint even done with the night

VERSE:

B

Well I don’t know no good come-ons

E/B

And I don’t know no cool lines

B

I feel the heat of your frustration

E/B

I know it’s burnin’ you up deep down inside

PRE-CHORUS:

G#m E

You say that I’m the boy

F#

Who can make it all come true

G#m E

Well I’m telling’ ya that I don’t know

F#

If I know what to do

CHORUS:

 B G#m

You say that’s all right, hold tight

E F#

Well I don’t even know if I’m doin’ this right

B G#m

Well alright, hold tight

E F#

We could stay out all day, we could run around all night

B G#m

Well all night, all night

E

Well it’s time to go home

E  (play VERSE RIFF)

And I aint even done with the night

BRIDGE: G#m F# E G#m E F#

CHORUS:

 B G#m

You say that’s all right, hold tight

E F#

Well I don’t even know if I’m doin’ this right

B G#m

Well alright, hold tight

E F#

We could stay out all day, we could run around all night

B G#m

Well all night, all night

E

Well it’s time to go home

E  (fade out repeating chorus)

And I aint even done with the night

  [Verse 1]

Dm F

Nothing's so loud

C Am7

As hearing when we lie

Dm F

The truth is not kind

C Am7

And you've said neither am I

Dm F C Am7 F

but the air outside so soft is saying everything

Am7 Bb

everything

[Chorus]

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm G

to be this close, to feel the same

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm E7 F

the evening speaks, I feel it say....

Dm F C Am7

[Verse 2]

Dm F

Nothing's so cold

C Am7

As closing the heart when all we need

Dm F

Is to free the soul

C Am7

But we wouldn't be that brave I know

Dm F C Am7 F

but the air outside so soft is saying everything

Am7 Bb

everything

[Chorus]

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm G

to be this close, to feel the same

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm E7 F

the evening speaks, I feel it say....

[Bridge]

G Am G F

And it won't matter now

C G F

Whatever happens will be

C G D

Though the air speaks of all we'll never be

F 

It won't trouble me

Dm F C Am7

Dm Am7 Bb

[Chorus]

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm G

to be this close, to feel the same

C Am7

All I want is to feel this way

Dm E7 F

the evening speaks, I feel it say....

[Outro]

C Am7

And it feels so close

Dm G

Let it take me in

C Am7

Let it hold me so

Dm E7 F

I can feel it say

  [Intro]

D C G

[Verse]

D C G

It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long

D C G

Caught somewhere between a boy and man

D C G

She was 17 and she was far from in between

D C G

It was summertime in Northern Michigan

[Instrumental]

D C G

[Verse]

D C G 

Splashin' thru the sandbar, talkin' by the campfire

D C G 

It's the simple things in life like when and where

D C G

We didn't have no internet, but man I never will forget

D C G

The way the moonlight shined upon her hair

[Chorus]

D C G

And we were tryin' different things and we were smokin' funny things

D C G

Makin' love out by the lake to our favorite songs

D C G

Sippin' whisky out the bottle not thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

D C G D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

[Verse]

D C G

Catchin' walleye from the dock watchin' waves roll off the rocks

D C G

She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul

D C G

We'd blister in the sun we couldn't wait for night to come

D C G

To hit that sandy place of rock 'n roll

[Chorus]

D C G

And we were tryin' different things and we were smokin' funny things

D C G

Makin' love out by the lake to our favorite songs

D C G

Sippin' whisky out the bottle not thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

D C  G D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

[Solo]

[Verse]

D C G

Now nothin' seems as strange as when the leaves began to change

D C G

Oh how we thought those days would never end

D C G

Sometimes I hear that song and I'll start to sing along

D C G

And think man I'd like to see that girl again

[Chorus]D

[Chorus]

D C G

And we were tryin' different things and we were smokin' funny things

D C G

Makin' love out by the lake to our favorite songs

D C G

Sippin' whisky out the bottle not thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

D C G D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

D C G

And we were tryin' different things and we were smokin' funny things

D C G

Makin' love out by the lake to our favorite songs

 D C G

Sippin' whisky out the bottle not thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

D C G D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

D C G

Singin' sweet home alabama all summer long

[Outro]

D C G