NOFX – We Did It Our Way (Guitar)

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          C                   G/B
It was 1983, when Eric Melvin called

                       F/A
He heard that I played bass in False Alarm

Fm/G#                              Em/G
He asked me if I wanted to start a punk band

             Em/G
I said “Fuck Yeah!”

                   G
And we saw Code of Honor

                          C *
And since then we’ve been brothers

* (Riff)
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C           G/B
I met Smelly in East Hollywood

F/A               Fm/G#                       Em/G
He didn’t know me, but he liked my Black Flag skateboard

                      Em/G
I liked his two piece Tama Drama drum set

G                           G                           C *
That was a night I won’t forget, the night we became NOFX

Dm                       F                    C
To survive we bought and sold and did so many drugs

                 Am                  F
And made so many bad decisions and recordings

         Fm
We never had a chance until we got

  C                G/B                  F/A
A Mexican American, a stolen phone card, a van to tour the country

Fm/G#            Em/G                  Em/G
Playing backyards, maybe we’d even get paid

       G                                  G
But we knew in our hearts from that first day

                      C
We would always do it our way

C                       G/B                         F/A                       F/G#
Everyone would shoot us down, shoot us up, said our sound was much too like RKL

               Em/G                   Em/G
We could never sell out a garage or a basement

     G                            G                      C *
Self-effacement the only thing we had that didn’t really suck

Dm                    F
To show our gratitude, this song’s for all of you

C                         Am
Don't let that shit stop

                      F
Friendship comes with all your trust

        Fm
And for all the older punk bands

C                          G/B
Who proved punk will never die

              F/A               F/G#
And showed us how we could be DIY

        Em/G                          Em/G
There’s not enough words to show our appreciation

      G                 G                     C
If it wasn’t for you we couldn’t have done it our way

      C      G/B
Since 1983, ‘till this final show

F/A                          F/G#
We want you all to know that we mean what we say

          Em/G                        G
So stop assuming there’s gonna be a reunion

            C            G/B         Am     Am
This is the last time NOFX will ever play

G          F                  G
Don’t feel bad, have the best time you’ve ever had

         E/G#                                 Am              G
So let’s give three cheers and one hip hip hooray (hip hip hooray)

      F                         G                     C
If it wasn’t for all of you, we couldn’t have done it our way.