The Hold Steady – Chillout Tent (Guitar)

Em                       D
There was a stage and a PA

                    C
up in western Massachusetts

C
And the kids came from miles

                                Em
around to get messed up on the music

                         D
And she drove down from Bowdoin

                   C
with a carload of girlfriends

C
To meet some boys and maybe eat some mushrooms

          Em
And they did and she got sick

           D
now she's pinned and way too shaky

C
She don't want to tell the doctor everything she's taken

Em
The paramedics hovered over like

   D
a somber mourning family

               C
They gave her activated charcoal

C
they flooded her with saline

G
I got really hot and then

   A5                      C
I came to in the chillout tent

                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes

        Em
He was rough around the edges

              D
He'd been to school but never finished

C
He'd been to jail but never prison

                Em                        D
And it was his first day off in forever, man

                             C
The festival seemed like a pretty good plan

C
Cruise some chicks and get a suntan

Em
His friend gave him four

             D
but he said "only take one"

C
But then he got bored

C
and he ended up taking all four

Em
So now my man

               D
he ain't that bored, anyways

     C
The paramedics found him

C
he was shaking on the side of the stage

G
Everything was spinning

        A5                      C
Then I came to in the chillout tent

                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes

G
I got really hot and then

   A5                      C
I came to in the chillout tent

                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes

     Em
She looked just like a baby bird

     D
all new and wet and

                   C
trying to light a Parliament

    Em
He quoted her some poetry

      D                          A5
he's Tennyson in denim and sheepskin

A5
He looked a lot like Izzy Stradlin

Eb5
They started kissing

          F5
when the nurses took off their IVs

      C
It was kind of of sexy

        D
but it was kind of creepy

Em
Their mouths were fizzy

          D
with the cherry cola

              C
They had the privacy of bedsheets

C
and all the other kids were mostly in comas

G
He was kind of cute

            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that boy again

G
She was pretty cool

            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that girl again

G
He was kind of cute

            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that boy again

G
She seemed pretty cool

            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

                      G          A5   C     G
And I never saw that girl again