The Gaslight Anthem – History Books (Guitar)

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As recorded by The Gaslight Anthem feat. Bruce Springsteen (From the 2023 Album HISTORY BOOKS) [Verse 1]
Bm                A
  What's that you say?

           G
I knew you when?

          A                     Bm 
You don't look too much like my friend

              A
Those history books

               G
Filled up with crooks

        A                             G
Stories that I don't want to read again
[Pre-Chorus]
     A        Bm
I've tried to live

    A                   G     A
One thousand years from here
[Chorus]
       D A         Bm
When I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G
When I think of you now

           D A         Bm
And when I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G  D   G D  Bm
When I think of you now
[Verse 2]
            A
I'm keeping time

             G
One day goes by

         A                      Bm
I try to live till the next one

                  A
But these history books

                G
Full of haunted looks

            A       G
From people I don't want to see again
[Pre-Chorus]
            A          Bm
'Cause I've learned to live

         A              G    A
But they try to hold me here
[Chorus]
       D A         Bm
When I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G   G D  G D
When I think of you now

           D A         Bm
And when I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G  D   G D
When I think of you now
[Bridge]
           D
You just remind me of the

Bm                  G
Nights of smoke and dirty jokes

D                   A
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts

              Bm             G
And they were beautiful some time ago

    D          A          Bm
But time keeps rollin' us on
[Guitar Solo] G Bm G Bm A G Bm A G [Chorus]
       D A         Bm
When I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G   G D  G D
When I think of you now

           D A         Bm
And when I think of it now

G                 D
It just brings me down

       A            G  D   G D
When I think of you now
[Outro]
D
You just remind me of the

Bm                  G
Nights of smoke and dirty jokes

D                   A
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts

              Bm             G
And they were beautiful some time ago

    D          A          D  A  Bm
But time keeps rollin' us on

G          D
Rollin' us on

A          Bm
Rollin' us on

G          D  A  Bm
Rollin' us on

G          D
Rollin' us on

A          Bm  G  D
Rollin' us on