Ghost Mice – Italy (Guitar)

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Here's another simple one, using only three repeating chords for the whole song. In this country, the duo decides to make a change in their diet and eat some thinly-slide potato wedges that have been cooked in hot oil, a staple food apparently referred to as "fries." CHORDS USED: C G D
G                       D
So there we were in the heart

      C                               G
Where everything that we know got its start

C                 D
Then it all fell apart

       G                     C
Well I guess that's what you get

         C           D        G
When you spread yourself too thin

           G              D
But we had bigger fish to fry

     C                  G
Like findin' a place to sleep at night

  C                 D
I bought a slice of pizza

        G                 C
Just to try and kill some time

          C           D         G 
And for a minute everything was fine

         G             D
We had a number in our notebook

           C               G 
But it was way too late to call

       C          D
It was well after midnight

         G                             C
When our train passed through the city walls

          C         D       G
We didn't know this girl at all

   G              D 
So we got out our travel book

   C              G
To read about the neighborhood

C                   D
Said it wasn't very good

       G               C
But it felt alright to me

      C         D           G
All I wanted to do was go to sleep

      G                 D
So we walked around the corner

       C             G
And we found a cheap motel

   G                D
We knew we couldn't afford it

       C      G      
But we said, "Oh well"

                 C                G  
When you've been on the train all day

         C                 G           
In a big city in a new country

            C              G
You're real tired and it's late

               C              G
Sometimes it's better just to pay

           D
That's the way it goes

D
Sometimes you know

D
It'd be okay

D         C      D       G
And after all we were in Rome

     G                  D
Well it had been a long time

      C              G
Since we had slept inside

   C                D
We woke up late the next day

        G               C
And the sun was shining bright

   C                  D                G
We paid our bill, we cried, we went outside

         G                   D
Now they got their bread and circus

            C     G
And I guess so do we

    C                   D
But they got theirs for free

             G                  C
I think that we're bein' ripped off

          C           D            G
We must destroy all empires at any cost

            G             D
When you're standin' in a temple

               C               G
Of a long-gone God it seems so simple

C         D        G              C    
Everybody dies, no matter who you are

          C                     D            G
From far enough away our sun is just another star

        G               D
And the statue of Moses that we saw

    C                         G
Had horns on his head and was eight feet tall

C                  D
Maybe that was the case,

        G                C
No it's not our place to say

C                 D               G
Maybe some things just don't translate

G                 D 
We called up this girl

        C          G
Who had ordered a CD

            C             G
She was the first from Italy

       D              G
And we asked for hospitality

C                 G    C               G
She said we could stay at her parents' place

     C                G
They were so sweet to us

          C              G
It was so nice to meet a punk

              D
She took good care of you and me

D
She bought us soy ice cream

D
Her mom cooked dinner every night

          C        D     G
It was so hard for us to leave

G                        D
And the stray dogs of Pompey

C                    G
Were our guides that day

C
They became our friends,

D
We were a lot like them

     G              C
They taught us many things

C                            D              G
And all they wanted was some food for their pay

G                   D
Then we went to the coast

          C                  G
Where the roads are wound so close

        C                 D
And the buses bounce from side-to-side

   G                     C
We thought that we might die

C                           D                 G
We couldn't find a place to sleep at all that night

G                    D
The city filled with scooters

        C          G
Held so many mysteries

  G                D
I saw the weirdest thing there

       C               G
That I think I'll ever see

         C                 G
It was a pizza topped with octopus,

  C                 G
A whole arm on each slice

C                   G
But I got my dinner there

         C                 G
It was a pizza topped with fries

    D
And Italy was nice

D
Made us feel right at home

D
Our money's in the fountain

       C      D       G
And we will return to Rome
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