Butch Walker – Stay Gold (Guitar)

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By Butch Walker [Intro] A D E A x2 [Verse 1]
A                          E
Standing outside of Dollar General

        D        A   
Another MLK boulevard

A                       E
Getting one more bag of dime store weed

   D                A
To smoke in my backyard

         F#m                   E
Well I'm so damn bored I could cut myself

E                       A
Only four more hours to kill

A                  D               E                   A
Every day until my mom gets out of working at the mill
[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy

A                      D
Don't let them get you down

D                         E
While the locals work for coffee

A                     D
Remember You own this town

      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen

           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...

     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold
[Verse 2]
A                       E
We went by the Marietta train tracks

           D                A   
Where your sister lost her days

A               E
Traded a dirty magazine

       D                A   
To the pinball guy for plays

  F#m                 E
I remember you always saying

E                   A
If you ever got out alive

F#m        E         D                         E                        A
You'd quit using and you'd get married to that girl on page twenty-five
[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy

A                      D
Don't let them get you down

D                         E
While the locals work for coffee

A                     D
Remember You own this town

      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen

           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...

     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold
[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy

A                      D
Don't let them get you down

D                         E
While the locals work for coffee

A                     D
Remember You own this town

      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen

           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound

       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...

     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold