Keane – The Boys (Guitar)

Riff that plays over the intro and verse
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Bm                                        E      A
The boys are grinning from the photograph

Bm                                           E     A
It's Friday night and they're trying so hard

Bm                                        E      A
The sun is dropping, and they want to go

Bm                                             E     A
Driving into town to see some girls they know

E                             G
The boys, blazing on a summer night

G                             D
Girls they want to watch them ride

D                        F#m
Is that the way it was before?

         F#7
Cause I don't remember

G                             E
Boys, friends at every bar in town

E                          D
Running all the good days down

                         F#m
Is that the way it was before?

         F#7
Cause I don't remember

[Solo]
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Riff that plays over second verse
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Bm                                              E   A
We felt like fighters when we caught the plane

Bm                                              E   A
Until that day we'd never heard its name

Bm                                              E   A
We did some things we didn't understand

Bm                                              E   A
And now we feel like strangers in our own land

E                             G
The boys, blazing on a summer night

G                             D
Girls they want to watch them ride

D                        F#m
Is that the way it was before?

         F#7
Cause I don't remember

G                             E
Boys, friends at every bar in town

E                          D
Running all the good days down

                         F#m
Is that the way it was before?

         F#7
Cause I don't remember

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This photograph, I hold it when I sleep

G                        D       F#m
Because people soon stop asking

G                 D                A
When I cannot explain what I have seen

                   G
And at the bars in town

                E
All the boys in town

                               G
Are running all the good days down

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Running all the good days down

                          G  E
Running all the good days down

                  Bm
All the good days down

[Outro Solo]
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