The Gaslight Anthem – The Navesink Banks (Guitar)

 Am         F      Am           F
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"

         C                    G                 Am
Said the sign I read that was hanging above her bed

                    F
And the siren's all willing

      Am                   F
But a man can't ignore the signs

         C                       G            Am
You gotta keep a good eye on the winding road ahead

    Am                 C              F
And my first sin was a young American girl

    Am                 C              F
And my first sin was a young American girl

      Am                    F
And I spent time 'neath the trestles

         Am                      F
With the punks and the dimestore saints

         C                      G                 Am
We kept faith and a switchblade tucked beneath my coat

                     F
And I ran with dirty angels

Am               F
Slept out in the rain

        C                    G            Am
We were scared and tired and barely seventeen

    Am                   C                 F
And my first sin was the fear that made me old

    Am                   C                 F
And my first sin was the fear that made me old

          F
And now I walk down by the shipyards

         G
Near the place where I was born

         C                            F
Saying, "Oh Maria, if you'da known me when"

    Am       F              Am                   F   
But she only smiles by the light on the Navesink Banks

         C           G           Am
Saying, "Listen baby, I know you now"

     Am                 F
Then she steps into the river

    Am                  F
And I just stand by the moon

 C                     G          Am
Thinking 'bout a ghost I hear at night

               Am                   C                   F
And she says, "Your first sin was a lie you told yourself.

     Am                   C             F
"And your first sin was a lie you told yourself.