Everclear – Am Radio (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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Tuned a half step down - all chords relative to standard tuning. In the main progression (E A B A), the last A is a quick single-downstroke - listen carefully to get the timing right. Otherwise, this is a very simple song. [Intro] E A B A E A E A B A E A [Verse]
E                                   A                         B   A
The VCR and the DVD - there wasn't none of that crap back in 1970

E      
We didn't know about a World Wide Web

       A                                 B           A
Was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid

E
Wanna get down in a cool way?

A                            B      A
Picture yourself on a beautiful day

E
Big Bell Bottoms and groovy, long hair

        A                           B
Just a-walking in style with a portable CD player - No!
[Chorus]
                                     E
You would listen to the music on the AM Radio

A                B         A         E        A  B  A
Yeah, you could hear the music on the AM Radio
[Verse]
E
Flashback to '72

         A                                   B               A
Another summer in the neighborhood, hanging out with nothing to do

E                                       A
Sometimes we'd go driving around in my sister's Pinto

          B                A      E
Cruising with the windows rolled down

                                            A
We'd listen to the radio station - we were too damn poor 

           B           A
to buy the 8-track tape

E
It wasn't then a good time to want to be inside

    A                           B           C#m
My momma want to watch that TV all goddamn night

                             F#
I'd be in bed with the radio on

                                A                             B
I would listen to it all night long just to hear my favorite song

                                                 E
You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the AM Radio
[Chorus]
A                B              A     E
Yeah, you could hear the music on the AM Radio

       A                     B               A     E
I can still hear momma say, "Boy, turn that radio down!"

                    A
Aww, mom, not that show again!

         B           A    E
I don't wanna watch that show

                              A                                   B  A
Can't we watch Good Times or Chico And The Man or something cool?

         B
Turn it off!
[Verse]
E
Things changed back in '75

         A                        B          A
We were all growing up on the in and the outside

E 
We got in trouble with the police man

        A                                 B            A
We got busted getting high in the back of my friend's van

E
I remember 1977

           A                              B        A
I started going to concerts and I saw the Led Zeppelin

E
I got a guitar on Christmas day

                A                              B                     C#m
I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come to Santa Monica and teach me to play

            F#
Teach me to play

             A
Teach me to play

C#m                                  F#m             
There isn't any place that I need to go

                                     A                               B   
There isn't anything that I need to know I did not learn from the radio
[Interlude] E Em [Outro] N.C. Yeah, when things get stupid and I just don't know where to find my Happy
         B             A      E       A
I listen to the music on the AM Radio

           B             A      E        A
You could hear the music on the AM Radio

           B             A      E
You could hear the music on the AM Radio

E
I like Pop, I like Soul

A
I like Rock

        B           A      E
But, I never liked Disco