Turnpike Troubadours – 1968 (Guitar)

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CHORD PATTERNS -------------- C x32010 D xx0232 G 320033 D/F# 2x0232
Em      022000
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One, Two, Three, (start with notes G -> A -> B) C D G D/F# Em C D G [Verse 1]
              C                     D
There ain't a thing in the world to take me back

       G           D/F#      Em
Like a dark-haired girl in a Cadillac

    C                D             G
On main street of an old forgotten town

    C                  D
The sunlight shines in fine white lines

   G                D/F#      Em     C
On weathered stores with open signs

            D                   G
They may as well just close 'em down
[Chorus 1]
        C           G     D        G
And you look like 1968 or was it '69

       C                  G
When I heard you caught a bullet

        D
Well, I guess you're doing fine

        C            G
And you speak of revolution

           D                 G
Like it's some place that you've been

                    C         G
Well, you've been a long time gone

            D
Good to see you my old friend
[Break] C D G D/F# Em [Verse 2]
        C           D
Oh, now that sun is gone away

    G      D/F#     Em
Replaced instead by silver rays

    C                 D         G
and moonlight falling on the avenue

          C              D
Oh, and I could sleep if you would drive

  G          D/F#    Em
I just can't keep my mind alive

    C                  D              G
And you've got nothing better else to do
[Chorus 2]
          C                G
And we've all been looking for you

       D             G
Like a hobo you walk in

        C               G
How the mighty all have fallen

        D
How the holy all have sinned

            C             G
Is that the clattering of sabers

       D              G
Or the cool September wind

                    C         G
Well, you've been a long time gone

        D
Good to see you my old friend
[Break] C D G D/F# Em [Verse 3]
            C                D
And there's just two times a day like this

    G         D/F#    Em
You find this kind of blissfulness

    C               D            G
The sun it sets and rises in the morn

          C                D
And we're shakin' hands, I rub my eyes

G       D/F#   Em
Free up all my alibis

       C                 D         G
Just a-blinking like the day I was born
[Chorus 1]
        C           G     D        G
And you look like 1968 or was it '69

       C                  G
When I heard you caught a bullet

        D
Well, I guess you're doing fine

        C            G
And you speak of revolution

           D                 G
Like it's some place that you've been

                    C         G
Well, you've been a long time gone

            D
Good to see you my old friend
[Outro]
             C                      G              D      G
And when the rounds were fired that April you were on the balcony

         C                  G                 D
When ten thousand teardrops hit the ground in Memphis, Tennessee

           C              G            D                G
You were a prideful rebel yell among a million marching men

                  C         G
And you've been a long time gone

        D              G
Good to see you my old friend

                    C         G
Well, you've been a long time gone

        D              G
Good to see you my old friend